
FIGURE 25. — Pole-timber 
stands are found on 26 per- 
cent of the total forest land 
area. 
of saw timber in 1947 was estimated to be 29.5 billion 
board feet, including 2.3 billion feet in 12-inch hard- 
woods, which were not considered saw timber on the 
first survey. Omitting these hardwoods, the volume in 
1947 was 27.2 billion feet, 10 percent less than in 1936. 
The pine species have taken the brunt of the reduc- 
tion in board-foot volume, decreasing by 12 percent, as 
compared to a hardwood volume reduction of only 6 
percent (table 7). Longleaf and slash pine sustained the 
greatest proportionate reduction in volume, decreasing 
by 18 percent. The 17-percent reduction in shortleaf 
pine volume was hardly less severe. 
While all parts of the State experienced reductions 
in saw timber, decreases in the northern Coastal Plain 
and the Piedmont were relatively small compared with 
the severe reduction in the southern Coastal Plain. Pine 
species in this part of the State declined by 29 per- 
cent and hardwoods by 16 percent. 
Hardwood species, while showing a much smaller 
reduction than softwoods, varied widely among indi- 
vidual species; changes ranged all the way from a 
36-percent decrease in white oaks to a gain of 25 per- 
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cent in yellow-poplar. The cutting-out of most of the 
remaining old-growth bottom-land hardwood types in 
the State resulted in a one-third reduction in sweetgum 
saw timber. 
STAND-SIZE CLASS 
AND VOLUME 
FOREST TYPE 
SOFTWOOD TYPES 
HARDWOOD TYPES 
SOFTWOOD TYPES 
HARDWOOD TYPES 
OTHER STANDS 
SOFTWOOD TYPES 
HARDWOOD TYPES 


4 6 8 
MILLION CORDS 
WI, }ARDWOODS 
GB sor twoops 
FIGURE 26.— Distribution of pole-timber volume by stand-size 
class and forest type, 1947. 
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