48 WORKING PLAN, FOREST LANDS IN ALABAMA. 
Bibb County tract forms dense thickets covering extensive areas 
along the bottoms of the larger creeks. Along the South Fork of | 
‘Little Sandy, which rises in section 31 of township 23 north, range 7 | 
east, and flows almost due north through sections 30, 19, and 18, join-— 
ing the main stream in the southwest corner of section 7, there is a 
great deal of canebrake, which in some places forms dense, almost 
impenetrable thickets over a quarter of a mile in width. . 
UNWOODED LAND. 
The unwooded land has a total area of 7,799 acres, 11.1 per cent of 
the whole tract. As shown on the map, it is confined mainly to the 
level or gently sloping land along the water courses on what was 
formerly creek land. It is only in the rolling country, namely, the 
northwestern part of township 23 north, range 6 east, and in the north- 
eastern part of township 23 north, range 7 east, where the tops are 
broad and the slopes moderate, that farming has been attempted on 
the longleaf pine land. Only a very small percentage of the area 
under cultivation—a few spots in the bottoms of the larger valleys— 
can be termed agricultural land. It is only a question of time before 
the rest of the cleared land will have to be given up. 
Division into Biocks. 
The Bibb County tract has been divided into blocks for the same 
general reasons as was the Coosa County tract. In the following 
descriptions the creek type is not taken into account, except that 
its area and average stand and yield per acre in each block are given. 
As in Coosa County, its proportional area and yield in merchantable 
pine are so small as to be hardly worth considering. 
THE STAND BY BLOCKS. 
Block I comprises T. 23 N., R. 6 E., sections 7, 18, 19, 30, 31, and 32. 
Its area is divided into: 
Acres. Percent. 
Longleaf pine land 2293 228s jee a eg eee 2, 565 66. 9 
Creek land Sex ee Bo ee ee eee 191 5..0 
Unwoodedland!=:2 > 422 es ee eee 1, 075 Pio) | 
otal 32226. ae So Ae ae eee a ee 3,831 100.0 
Although the land in these sections is moderately hilly, there is 
very little of the sandstone formation. The soil is deep and is slightly 
loamy. In consequence the loblolly and shortleaf pines play an 
important part in the forest on the longleaf pine land. Except in the 
eastern half of sections 18 and 19, there are practically no stands of — 
pure longleaf. In many places it is entirely superseded by the loblolly 
and shortleaf, of which the number of small trees under 12 inches in 
diameter is large. The present yield of merchantable longleaf pine 
on this block is small. 
