Table 5.4—Opportunities for increasing timber supplies in the South that will yield 10 percent' or more by ownership, forest management type, 
and treatment opportunity 
All ownerships 
Forest type 
and treatment 
opportunity Area 
Million 
acres 
All forest types 
Regenerate with esi 
site preparation? 
Regenerate without 1:33 
site preparation? 
Convert stand to e377 
preferred species* 
Precommercial thin 0.27 
seedlings and saplings? 
Commercial thin 4.35 
poletimber stands® 
Stocking control, 6.38 
clean, or release’ 
Clearcut mature 12.94 
stands and replant® 
Salvage harvest 1.98 
and regenerate? 
All treatments earning: 
10 percent or more 36.39 
less than 10 percent 45.28 
Nonstocked land 
Regenerate with 1.28 
site preparation? 
Regenerate without 0.43 
site preparation? 
Convert stand to — 
preferred species* 
Precommercial thin — 
seedlings and saplings” 
Commercial thin — 
poletimber stands® 
Stocking control, 
Forest industry 
Net 
Cost annual 
of growth 
treat- incre- 
ment ment 
Other private 
Net 
Cost annual 
of growth 
treat- incre- 
ment ment Area 
Million Million 
dollars cubic ft 
180.7 105.7 
19:3) 25:9 
4.4 3.8 
50.3 47.4 
72.0 58.8 
Million Million Million 
dollars cubic ft acres 
128.9 123.7 0.20 
clean, or release’ 
Clearcut mature — 
stands and replant® 
Salvage harvest 
and regenerate” 
All treatments earning: 
10 percent or more 1.71 
less than 10 percent 1.88 
36:22 183 121.6 60.8 0.06 
604.9 400.3 1,966.5 1,228.3 2.54 
2.06 
14:9. 13:3 49.8 45.6 0.05 
10.0 13.1 7.0 9:2, 20:02 
25.0 26.4 56.8 54.8 0.07 
0.06 
Other public 
Net 
Cost annual 
of growth 
treat- incre- 
Area ment ment 
Million Million Million 
acres dollars cubic ft 
0.23 20.8 13.6 
0.05 1.0 1.8 
0.04 3.0 1.7 
0.01 0.4 0.3 
0.11 4.9 4.9 
0.20 9.6 6.9 
0.47 44.0 24.6 
0.15 10.1 By | 
28 93.8 59.0 
2.20 
0.06 By) 2.9 
— 0.1 0.2 
0.06 3.3 
0.16 
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