and 3.65—3.76). Between 1952 and 1976, there were large 
increases in hardwood supplies from Virginia and Alabama, 
with a smaller increase from Texas. Hardwood supplies from 
most of the remaining States either declined or showed 
little increase. 
Between 1976 and 1984, hardwood supplies increased in 
every State, except Arkansas. The largest increases 
occurred in North Carolina, Virginia, and Alabama. In 1984, 
Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina, Mississippi, and 
Tennessee were the leading suppliers, collectively providing 
63 percent of the total. 
By 2000, hardwood supplies are projected to be higher than 
in 1984 in each of the 12 States. In actual volume, the 
largest increases are projected for Georgia, Arkansas, and 
North Carolina. Very large percentage increases are projected 
in Florida and Oklahoma, but these are relatively minor 
hardwood States. 
By 2030, five States—Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, 
Mississippi, and Tennessee—are projected to supply 59 
percent of the hardwood roundwood. The largest percentage 
increase is projected in Georgia; the smallest, in Alabama. 
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Recent and Projected Hardwood Timber Removals 
Although the output of roundwood products accounts for 
a smaller share of total annual removals of hardwoods than 
of softwoods, trends in hardwood removals still follow a 
pattern similar to that described for hardwood supplies. 
Currently, more than one-third of the annual removals of 
growing stock in the South is hardwood. 
Southwide Trends 
Hardwood timber removals from growing stock in the South 
stayed at about 2.3 billion cubic feet per year from 1952 
to 1976 (tables 3.19 and 3.20, fig. 3.38). Increasing hard- 
wood fuelwood and pulpwood consumption caused removals 
to go up by 24 percent between 1976 and 1984. Southwide, 
about 73 percent of all hardwood growing stock removals 
are used for roundwood products; the remainder is attribu- 
ted to logging residue, cultural practices, landclearing, 
or other land-use changes. Currently, 53 percent of all 
hardwood growing stock removals occur in the South Central 
region and 47 percent in the Southeast. 
Growing stock removals of hardwood by ownership show 
trends that are similar to hardwood roundwood supply 
trends. Ownership proportions changed very little between 
1952 and 1970 (fig. 3.38). Since then, the proportion of 
hardwood removals from forest industry timberlands has 
increased. Currently 72 percent of hardwood removals 
come from other private timberland, 21 percent from forest 
industry timberland, and 7 percent from public timberland. 
These proportions are fairly consistent between the South 
Central and Southeast regions. 
Hardwood removals are projected to increase about 46 
percent over the next 35 years. This is largely the result of 
increasing consumption of hardwood fuelwood and pulp- 
wood and continuing high rates of landclearing. 
Hardwood removal projections are not uniform by ownership 
groups. Hardwood removals from other private timberland 
is expected to increase 56 percent, to 3.2 billion cubic feet. 
Most of the increase is on land owned by other individuals. 
In 2030, timber from these owners accounts for almost 44 
percent of all hardwood growing stock removals. 
In 1952, 45 percent of all hardwood removals came from 
bottomland hardwoods and 33 percent from upland hard- 
woods (fig. 3.39). Since then, hardwood removals from 
upland hardwood types have increased to 42 percent, and 
hardwood removals from bottomland hardwoods have 
declined to 28 percent of the total. These trends reflect 
slower clearing of bottomland hardwoods and higher 
