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The Question of Adequate Stocking

The Southern Forest Resource Council's report, The South's Third Forest, called for planting or direct seeding with pine 30 million acres of forest land by 1985 and replanting, after harvest cuts, an additional 30 million acres by the year 2000. Only during the Soil Bank years of 1958- 1961 has planting in the South exceeded I million acres a year. To adequately plan for such a broad planting goal, some idea of seedling survival and loss of pine plantations in their pre-merchantable years is needed. Some applicable data is available from records kept on the plantations established by the Yazoo- Little Tallahatchie Flood Prevention Project in north Mississippi.


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Author(s): Hamlin L. Williston

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 23, Number 1 (1972)

Volume: 23

Number: 1