Table 5.1—Area of timberland in the South needing treatment to improve productivity, by region, State, and ownership 
Region and 
State 
Southeast 
Florida 
Georgia 
North Carolina 
South Carolina 
Virginia 
Total 
South Central 
Alabama 
Arkansas 
Louisiana 
Mississippi 
Oklahoma 
Tennessee 
Texas 
Total 
Southwide total 
All 
timberland 
1S53377 
23,535 
18,358 
12,230 
15,436 
84,896 
PALES UG 
15,950 
13,797 
16,072 
4,748 
12,937 
12,187 
97,268 
182,164 
Thousand acres 
Forest 
Total industry 
7,847 1,818 
9,960 1,882 
7,745 960 
4,864 742 
6,544 761 
36,960 6,163 
10,633 2,352 
6,560 1,412 
7,572 2,164 
5,928 1,098 
2,958 420 
5,970 532 
5,089 1,177 
44,710 9,155 
81,670 15,318 
Timberland needing treatment 
Other 
private 
4,974 
7,401 
5,881 
3,698 
4,799 
26,753 
7,702 
3,977 
4,726 
4,356 
2,263 
4,874 
3,632 
31,530 
58,283 
National 
forest 
430 
275 
534 
226 
771 
2,236 
338 
907 
223 
367 
72 
264 
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2,362 
4,598 
Other 
public 
625 
401 
371 
197 
212 
1,806 
242 
264 
460 
108 
204 
300 
88 
1,666 
3,472 
Table 5.2—Area of timberland in the South needing treatment to improve productivity, by forest management type and treatment need 
Treatment 
need 
Regenerate with 
site preparation 
Regenerate without 
site preparation 
Convert stand to 
preferred species 
Precommercial thin 
seedlings and saplings 
Commercial thin 
poletimber stands 
Stocking control, 
clean, or release 
Clearcut mature 
stands and regenerate 
Salvage harvest 
and regenerate 
All treatments 
All 
management 
types 
35,472 
1,992 
2,326 
1,547 
7,436 
16,171 
13,158 
Sd 
81,679 
Thousand acres 
Forest management type 
Pine Natural Pine— Upland Bottomland 
Nonstocked plantations pine hardwoods hardwoods hardwoods 
3,074 571 4,147 4,814 14,652 8,211 
521 45 132 94 721 479 
58 205 309 1,165 589 
357 447 248 382 113 
2,047 35327] 650 771 640 
604 2,344 3,141 7,486 2,595 
388 4,603 1,347 3,840 2,974 
208 467 290 1,259 1,353 
35595 4,278 15,674 10,893 30,275 16,955 ; 
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