FIGURE 18.— Pine is cut out 
of many mixed stands, leav- 
ing virtually pure hard- 
woods of low quality. 
TABLE 3.— Change in area of commercial forest, by forest type 
and region, 1936 to 1947 
(In million acres) 

Coastal Plain} Piedmont State 

Forest type 


1936 | 1947 | 1936 | 1947 | 1936 | 1947 
Woblollyspineseneraetececse see 353 3.1 0.7 1.0 4.0 4.1 
Wtoneleatspinelaas..ce cue. 1.8 Iai bd ase (2) 1.8 1.1 
Shortleafspiness sin vente ee se all 2 1G) 2.0 2.0 De 
Lowland hardwoods! ............ 2.0 def} of) 4 2.2 3.1 
Upland hardwoods*............. BS 8 4 6 7 1.4 
AIST Yy peSstsizcasrese ise clas « 7.5 7.9 3.2 4.0 | 10.7 11.9 






1 Includes pond pine type. 
2 3,400 acres. 
3 Includes Virginia pine and redcedar type. 
4 Includes cypress type. 
5 Includes scrub oak type. 
wood bolts, and pine sawlogs, many operators found 
it profitable to log the pine and the larger hardwoods 
out of the less accessible pine-hardwood stands fringing 
the swamps and river bottoms. This left a residual 
stand of small-sized, poor-quality hardwood, 
Timber Supply Outlook in South Carolina 




The 688,000-acre reduction (table 3) in the area of 
longleaf pine represents a two-way squeeze on this 
forest type. With protection from fire, loblolly pine is 
replacing longleaf on the interstream uplands in the 
Coastal Plain, and in the Sandhills heavy cutting of 
the longleaf pine has converted large areas to scrub 
oak (fig. 20). In 1936, there were 153,000 acres of 
SOFTWOOD 
1936 geil an a 
1947 
HARDWOOD 
1936 
1947 
RIEUION Nese 
FicurRE 19.— Area of softwood and hardwood types, 1936 
and 1947. 
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