Table 5.6—Timberland needing treatment to improve productivity in the South, the area of timberland with 
opportunities for increasing net annual timber growth which will yield 4 percent or more,' and the associated 
treatment cost and net annual growth increment, by region and State 
Treatment 
Timberland opportunities Net 
Region and needing earning 4 percent Treatment annual growth 
State treatment or more cost increment 
Million Million Million Million 
acres acres dollars cubic feet 
Southeast 
Florida 7.8 2 645 2 
Georgia 10.0 9.2 797 419 
North Carolina 7.7 7.0 652 321 
South Carolina 4.9 4.4 420 183 
Virginia 6.5 Div 531 2742 
Total 37.0 33.5 3,044 1,467 
South Central 
Alabama 10.6 9.6 864 487 
Arkansas 6.6 4.8 534 213 
Louisiana 7.6 6.1 595 300 
Mississipp1 3.9 4.7 469 246 
Oklahoma 3.0 2.4 301 90 
Tennessee 6.0 4.6 582 238 
Texas 51 4.4 477 207 
Total 44.7 36.5 3,822 1,782 
Southwide total 81.7 70.0 6.866 3,248 
' Financial yields are measured in constant dollars, net of inflation or deflation. 
Million acres 
Stand 
Shas 3 
Other private regeneration 
SOM 
Harvest 
JEEZ and 
regenerate 
Forest 
: 12.8 
industry 
14.1 Stocking 
control 
Public Bia 
Figure 5.3—Area of timberland with economic opportunities 
to increase net annual timber growth in the South, by Figure 5.4—Area of timberland with economic opportunities 
ownership to increase net annual timber growth in the South, by 
treatment 
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