. Annual report, 1954. Forests and forestry Southern States Periodicals; Forests and forestry Research Southern States Periodicals. Figure growing stock volume decreased million cords, or 2 percent, between surveys. Since the first survey, enough abandon- ed farmland reverted to forest to add more than million acres to the forest area. Also, improved fire protection contributed to better stocking. In 19 36 an estimated million acres burned over in Georgia; by 1952 the burned-over area had been reduced to about 600,000 acres. The planting of pine on more than 300,000 acres
. Annual report, 1954. Forests and forestry Southern States Periodicals; Forests and forestry Research Southern States Periodicals. Figure growing stock volume decreased million cords, or 2 percent, between surveys. Since the first survey, enough abandon- ed farmland reverted to forest to add more than million acres to the forest area. Also, improved fire protection contributed to better stocking. In 19 36 an estimated million acres burned over in Georgia; by 1952 the burned-over area had been reduced to about 600,000 acres. The planting of pine on more than 300,000 acres has also helped. Other important trends were re- vealed by the resurvey. Thirty-four per- cent of the forested area is now in hard- wood types, compared to 22 percent during the first survey (fig. 30). Type conversion is aided by cutting practices which leave hardwoods as the residual stand. Also, the growing space occupied by cull trees is increasing at a rapid rate, and in the period between surveys the volume in cull trees, principally hard- woods, more than Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Southeastern Forest Experiment Station (Asheville, N. C. ). Asheville, N. C. : Southeastern Forest Experiment Station
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