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North Carolina must depend upon 
222,000 farm woodland owners with forest 
land holdings averaging about 60 acres 
each to provide for the biggest share of 
future timber needs. The Federal govern- 
ment owns 1.3 of the 19.3 million acres 
of forest land. Other public ownership 
amounts to only 0.3 million acres. Pulp 
companies own 1.1 million acres and other 
wood-using industries, 1.5 million acres. 
Cutover public land and lands owned 
by wood-using industries are left in a much 
more productive condition than other 
forest land. Improvements in forest prac- 
tices are expected to continue on these 
lands. While the outlook is for a sub- 
stantial increase in growth, there is not 
enough of this kind of ownership to pro- 
vide more than a small part of the total 
need even if the land grew all the timber 
that it is capable of growing. Farmers 
own more than twice as much forest land 
as do all others together; and their wood- 
lands, because of neglect, are among the 
least productive. These lands offer the 
greatest need and opportunity for in- 
creasing the timber supply. 
woodland owners 
