Bui. 1061, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 
Plate XI 
Fig. 1. — Plenty of seed trees were left — the trees left were considered as culls 
when lumbered (1902), but unfortunately no protection against annual fires and 
hogs had been afforded. The result,, after 15 years, is the absence of a young forest 
and the loss of considerable old timber by action of fire, insects, diseases, and wind. 
This condition apparently has misled many people into believing tbat longleaf 
land would never come back to timber 
Fig. 2. — Seed trees and protection on longleaf cut-over lands near by that shown in 
figure 1. The young forest of mixed longleaf and shortleaf pines is growing well 
and producing from 1 to 2 cords yearly of wood suitable for pulp wood or 300 to 
500 board feet of saw timber. The seed trees have been making profitable growth, 
as shown on page 14. More trees were left than necessary for seed, but all were 
considered culls at the time of logging 
SEED TREES AND PROTECTION-THE ESSENTIALS FOR KEEPING 
THE FOREST PRODUCTIVE 
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