examples include Pea River 
State Forest in Alabama 
(32,250 acres), Poison 
Springs State Forest in 
Arkansas (19,500 acres), 
Waycross State Forest in 
Georgia (35,789 acres), 
Bladen Lake State Forest in 
North Carolina (36,000 acres), 
Manchester State Forest in 
South Carolina (28,800 
acres), and 64,000 acres of 
State forests in Tennessee 
and 40,000 in Virginia. 
In addition to the lands 
transferred to the States for 
forests and parks, many 
blocks of Resettlement 
Administration lands were 
provided to universities and 
other State agencies. The 
overall result is that during 
the Depression years, the 
acreage of publicly owned 
lands in the South increased 
substantially, and many State 
forests and State parks were 
established. 
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