A WORKING PLAN FOR FOREST LANDS IN BERKELEY COUNTY, 
SOUTH CAROLINA. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The object of the investigation, the results of which are presented 
in the following working plan, was primarily to determine how much 
timber is at present standing on the land of the E. P. Burton Lumber 
Company, how much is necessary for a sustained annual yield equal 
to the present capacity of the company’s mill, and in what way the 
largest successive crops can be obtained in the shortest time and at 
the least expense. It led to the conclusion that the prevailing species 
(loblolly pine), the method of logging, and the location of the tract 
are all adapted to make the pine lands permanently valuable if treated 
in such a way as to insure future crops of timber. The swamp lands 
do not offer the same favorable opportunities for forest management. 
_ Here the most important species, cypress, occurs only as, scattered 
individuals, or at best in small groups, surrounded by a luxuriant 
_ growth of hardwoods which prevents its reproduction on a large scale. 
The improvement of these lands will therefore be slow. 
The work of collecting data on which to base recommendations for 
the treatment of this tract took a crew of six men three and one-half 
months, and embraced the following measurements: 
(1) The measurement of all hardwoods to 10 inches and all soft- 
woods to 2 inches in diameter breasthigh over approximately 5 per 
cent of the tract. 
(2) The measurement of 1,545 felled trees for volume. 
(3) The measurement of 3,107 stumps for rate of growth. 
(4) The measurement of 4,102 trees for total height and clear length. 
The standing trees were measured throughout the various holdings 
in strips 66 feet wide and one-fourth mile apart. The diameters of 
the trees were recorded on sheets which showed for each acre the 
number of trees of each species and their diameters. The measure- 
ment of felled trees followed the logging and included: 
Height of stump. 
Diameter of stump inside and outside of bark. 
Diameter 43 feet from the ground. 
Diameter at the top of each log inside and outside of bark. 
Total height. 
Clear length or distance from the ground to the first large limb. 
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