. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIN OF THE No. 11. Contribution from the Forest Service, Henry S. Graves, Forester January 23, 1914. FOREST MANAGEMENT OF LOBLOLLY PINE IN DELAWARE, MARYLAND, AND VIRGINIA. By W. D. Sterrett, Forest Examiner. LOBLOLLY PINE ADAPTED TO FOREST MANAGEMENT. Forestry oy forest management differs from ordinary lumbering in that when a mature stand of timber is cut provision is always made to secure a new crop of young seedlings—either by natural seeding or by sowing or planting—to take the place of the trees removed. It
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIN OF THE No. 11. Contribution from the Forest Service, Henry S. Graves, Forester January 23, 1914. FOREST MANAGEMENT OF LOBLOLLY PINE IN DELAWARE, MARYLAND, AND VIRGINIA. By W. D. Sterrett, Forest Examiner. LOBLOLLY PINE ADAPTED TO FOREST MANAGEMENT. Forestry oy forest management differs from ordinary lumbering in that when a mature stand of timber is cut provision is always made to secure a new crop of young seedlings—either by natural seeding or by sowing or planting—to take the place of the trees removed. It consists primarily in the growing of successive crops of timber on the same area. It includes also the care of immature stands, comprising chiefly improvement thinnings and protection from fire. Loblolly pine is easily the leading tree for forest management in those portions of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia where it grows naturally. The factors which combine to make it particularly suit- able for commercial timber growing are: The ease with which it reproduces itself and forms pure, well-stocked stands; its rapid growth and the wide range of sites on which it will grow; the many uses to which its wood is adapted; the comparative cheapness of logging and milling the timber, and the good prices which its lum- ber commands. This bulletin aims to show the financial possibili- ties in growing loblolly pine in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia and to describe the best methods of management. As a basis for the latter the silvicultural characteristics of the species are first discussed. DISTRIBUTION AND IMPORTANCE. The accompanying map (fig. 1) shows the botanical and commer- cial distribution of loblolly pine in Delaware, Maryland, and Vir- ginia. The region to which this report applies is that covered by the botanical range of the species. In this region loblolly pine occurs naturally in some 60 counties, comprising an area of 21,100 square miles (13,500,000 acres). Table 1 1 g
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