174 million 
pine seedlings 
established in 1956 
. .. comparedto... 
141 million 
pine seedlings needed 
fo replace the volume 
of pine sawtimber 
cut in 1955 
236 million 
pine seedlings needed 
to produce 2.4 billion 
board-feet of pine 
sawtimber by the 
year 2000 
Pechort of 
providing for future needs 
Approximately 174 million new pine 
seedlings were established in North Caro- 
lina in 1956. This includes the 34 million 
pine seedlings planted. The remainder 
seeded in naturally in old fields, on cutover 
land, and in openings in the forest stands. 
If these new pine seedlings are reasonably 
well spaced, they can be expected to yield 
about 1.7 billion board-feet of yellow-pine 
sawtimber by the year 2000. 
This yield is enough to provide a future 
cut greater than the present cut and equal 
to current growth, but it is far short of the 
236 million seedlings that should be estab- 
lished each year to produce 2.4 billion 
board-feet annually by the year 2000 
