types have nearly all been cut over; only on slightly more 

 than 100,000 acres, or 2 percent of their original area, 

 does old growth remain uncut. However, because short- 

 leaf and loblolly pines reseed the land readily and grow 

 quickly, and because an understory of scattered young 

 pines was usually left when the old-growth forests were 

 cut over, most of the cut-over forest acreage ot these types 

 has restocked and two-thirds of it is now covered with 

 stands of sawlog size. 



The remaining 0.9 million acre of forest land in the 

 rolling uplands bears chiefly upland hardwoods, among 

 which are hickories and red, post, and white oaks. A few 

 scattered pines are intermixed. These stands, many of 

 which are uneven-aged, generally occupy scattered, rela- 

 tively small tracts. Less than 10 percent ot the area bears 

 uncut old-growth timber, and very little ot the rest tailed 

 to restock. Ot importance in management is the tact that 



although the upland hardwood forests contains many of the 

 same species found in the bottom-land forests, the individual 

 trees are usually inferior in quality to those growing on the 

 bottom lands. 



During the last 20 years more than 169,000 acres of cut- 

 over forest lands and old fields in Louisiana have been 

 planted to slash, longleaf, and loblolly pines; on 148,000 

 acres ot this total the planting is classified as successful. 

 The Federal Government is credited with planting 91,000 

 acres; the State with 4,600 acres; other public agencies, 164 

 acres; tarmers and other nonindustrial private landowners, 

 19,200 acres; and industrial organizations, 54,200 acres. 

 With the exception of nearly 30,000 acres of planted pine 

 on the land of Gaylord Container Corporation in Washing- 

 ton Parish, most of the plantations are in southwest 

 Louisiana. Several ot the older ones are now being thinned 

 commercially for pulpwood. 



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