Thousand acres 
1800 
1925 1935 1945 1955 1965 1975 1985 
2100; Other private 
1955 1965 1975 1985 
1945 
2100 Industry 
1800 
1500 
1200 
1925 1935 1945 1955 1965 1975 1985 
2100 Public 
1925 1935 1945 1955 1965 1975 1985 
Figure 2.5—Regeneration in the South, by ownership, 1925-85 
again in 1981, when nearly $16 million were expended 
each year for both programs. Funding for the Forestry 
Incentives Program dropped sharply in the following years 
(app. table 2.14). 
The 1985 Farm Bill (Food Security Act of 1985) established 
a Conservation Reserve Program to compensate farmers for 
planting highly erodible cropland to trees or grass. Under 
this program, farmers receive annual rental payments for 
10 years and conservation payments of up to 50 percent of 
eligible costs of establishing trees on the acreage placed in 
reserve. Under this program, as much as 3 million acres in 
the South could be planted to pine by 1990. This program 
is also cooperatively managed by Federal and State forestry 
agencies. 
State Reforestation Programs 
Some States have adopted special cost-sharing programs of 
assistance to landowners. For example, Virginia adopted a 
program in 1971 to assure expanded reforestation of pine- 
lands. This effort has been financed in part by a severance 
tax. Every 2 years, the Virginia General Assembly appro- 
priates funds based on the estimated severance tax receipts 
for the next 2 years to be matched by landowner contribu- 
tions. These State funds are supplemented by whatever funds 
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