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Inundation Damage to Loblolly Pine Seedlings

One of the problems faced by foresters in north Mississippi is that of growing timber on land intermittently flooded. More than 150,000 acres within the Arkabutla, Enid, Grenada, and Sardis reservoirs may be covered with water in time of flood. Additional acreage to be intermittently flooded lies within the impoundment areas of the 650 floodwater retardation structures under construction by the Soil Conservation Service near the headwaters of small creeks. Much of this land is best suited to-growing pine. The key to its management for pine lies in the length of time that reproduction can survive


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Author(s): Hamlin L. Williston

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 36 (1959)