fiVi J It yt 6a nos ff BB S L loyio FORESTRY BULLETIN NO 1 AUGUST 1945 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 2 THE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF GEORGIA IN COOPERATION WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 9 i J It c Forestry Bulletin No 1 August I9U5 0 u 0 0 0 i u u 1U 0 z CO ce a ca I z 0 K Z j 111 X 1 CO a z 3 O M F0R3ST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 2 V B F Grant and A j3 Patterson The Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia in cooperation with The Georgia Department of Forestry The American Forestry Association UNIVERSW LIBRARIES Of GEORGEFOREWORD The Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal was initiated in July I9UU under a cooperative agreement between the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia the Georgia Department of Forestry and the American Forestry Association The purpose of the survey is to determine on a county basis l the volume of sawtimber cordwood and other forest products 2 the rate at which this timber is growing 3 drain and mortality U acreage burned annually 5 area of forest land 6 cutting practices and 7 management trends The field work in District 2 was done in July August September and October 19 This publication is a preliminary report and the data are subject to correction before they are published in a state report to be issued early in I9U6 Only items 1 k and 5 above are considered in this report The other data need considerable interpretation and additional study before releasing and theytoo will form part of the state report The Georgia Department of Forestry through Director J M Tinker furnished help through the State and District Staff in the collection of field data The American Forestry Association through Director John B Woods and Regional Consultant Charles R Ross approved general plans for the project and assisted in the collection of field data Coordination of the survey and report preparation were under the super vision of the authors Appreciation is expressed to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration the School of Forestry of the University of Georgia and to the Georgia Forestry Association for valuable assistance in the survey Special acknowledgement is due R Bruce MacGregor and Elton J Smith of the Georgia Department of Forestry Robert K Boydell of the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board and L W R Jackson of the Division of Forest Pathology Bureau of Plant Industry Soils and Agricultural Engineering U S Department of Agriculture i V 9 Ellis Arnall Governor of Georgia AGRICULTURAL AND IHDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMEM1 BOARD OF GEORGIA Blanton Fortson Chairman L Vaughan Howard Executive Director Hame of Member Address Ivan AllenAtlanta T E AbercrombieAtlanta Charles L Bowden W 5T Banks Cason J Callaway M D Collins Ryburn G Clay Mrs Frank C David Blanton Fortson Charles B Gramling Macon Grantvilie Hamilton Atlanta Atlanta Columbus Athens Atlanta Robert W GrovesSavannah Alfred W Jones Sea Island Tom Linder Atlanta Wiley L Moore Atlanta Walter R McDonald Atlanta Henry MclntoshAlbany W H MaMaughtonCartersville J L PilcherMeigs Ed StevensDawson M King Tucker Waynesboro Wilson WilliamsAtlanta 69 ly a COJTTSNTS Description of Georgia District 2 t 5 Baker County Data 9 Brooks County Data10 Calhoun County Data11 Colquitt County Data12 Decatur County Data13 Dougherty County Data1 Early County Data15 Grady County Data16 Miller County Data17 Mitchell County Data12 Seminole County Data 19 Thomas County Data20 Tift County Data21 Worth County Data22 Summary of Georgia District 2 Data23 Definitions2U i fuiy DESCRIPTION OF GEORGIA DISTRICT 2 Georgia District 2 coincides with District 2 of the Georgia Depart ment of Forestry and Georgia Congressional District 2 It is located in the southwest corner of the State and embraces lk counties Listed alphabetically these counties are Baker Brooks Calhoun Colquitt Decatur Dougherty Early Grady Miller Mitchell Seminole Thomas Tift Worth Including water areas the total area of tho District is 3906560 acres J Of this total area k percent or 2102706 acres is in forest land Included among the principal cities of the District are Albany Bain bridge Moultrie Thomasville and Tifton Other cities and towns of import ance throughout the District are Blakely Cairo Camilla Colquitt Donalson ville Morgan Fewton Quitman and Sylvester An excellent road system con sisting of federal and state paved highways and state and county improved roads forms a network of transport facilities between all towns and rural districts In addition the area is traversed by twelve railroads the prin cipal ones being the Atlantic Coast Line Birmingham and Coast Central of Georgia Georgia and Florida Seaboard Air Line and Southern Principal rivers in the District are the Chattahoochee which borders the District on the west the Withlacoochee and Little which partially border the District on the east and the Flint and Ochlockonee which traverse the District in a north to south direction Traffic on the Chattahoochee and 1 Definitions and explanations of forestry terms as used by the Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal are given on page 2k 5 v i X 1 Flint rivers once important arteries of transportation has decreased since the advent of the railroads From the standpoint of dominant interest in forest use the produc tion of naval stores has long held the most prominent position in the District with the production of lumber poles piling pulpwood and other commodities secondary in the minds of most forest owners Markets for each of these products are available in the District and with the recent awaken ing of many forest owners to the advantages of integrated utilization it can be safely predicted that these markets will be increased in the future Practically all of the forest area of the District is covered by one of three general forest types Principal among these from the standpoint of coverage is the longleafslash or loblolly pine type the pinehardwoods type and the hardwoods type Each of these types is dominated by the species its name implies It is interesting to note with respect to coverage that in the oast 50 years the longleafslash pine type which forms a belt extend ing in a general east to west direction across the District has been narrowed 2 by the encroachment of the pinehardwoods type and that within the longleaf slash pine type the proportion of slash pine is steadily increasing Practically all of the types are composed of secondgrowth stands Small scattered tracts of oldgrowth timber occur occasionally in all types but in the aggregate they comprise only a small proportion of the total timber volume and an even smaller proportion of the forest area The net volume of pine hardwood and cypress sawtimber in the District II 2 Mohr Charles The Timber Pines of the Southern United States USDA Div of For Bui 13 1896 3 Volume and other pertinent data are given by counties in the latter por tion of this bulletin 6A J S A Tft Q c S o v O 1 totals 3SU7000000 board feet Approximately 89 percent or 3 409000000 board feet of this total volume is pine sawtimber The remaining U3gOOOOOO board feet are hardwood and cypress sawtimber On the basis of total forest land acreage this represents an average of 1621 board feet of pine and 208 board feet of hardwood and cypress per acre Under present as well as under normal conditions and from both a physical and an economic standpoint almost the entire volume of sawtimber can be listed as accessible Net cordwood volume in the District not including sawtimber sized trees totals 4455000 cords Of this total 2209000 cords or 50 percent are pine 1341000 cords or 30 percent are pulping hardwoods and 905000 cords or 20 percent are nonpulping hardwoods and cypress This is an aver age volume per acre for forest land of 10 cords of pine 07 cords of pulp ing hardwood and 04 cords of nonpulping hardwood and cypress or a total of 2 cords oer forest land acre of all species Naval stores production varies from a low in Calhoun and Dougherty Counties each with two operators working approximately six crops to a high in Brooks and Colquitt where SO operators work 46 crops and 16 operators work approxi mately 69 crops respectively In spite of the publicized prevalence of fires the stocking of the major ity of forest stands in the District is above the average Of the 2102706 acres of forest land in the District 51 percent is rated as having Ood stock ing 9 percent as having medium stocking and 40 percent as having poor stock ing It is interesting to note in examining these data that 91 percent of the area is either well stocked or poorly stocked with a comparatively close division of area between these classifications Many of the areas classified as poorly stocked have apparently been in such a condition for years indicat ing the necessity for artificial means of restocking The fact that more than 1 I 15 million pine seedlings have been distributed in the District within the past 15 years gives concrete evidence that such a condition does exist and that an attempt is being made by forest owners to adjust the condition in favor of better forestry practice A forest nursery of the Georgia Department of Fores try capable of producing 30 million seedlings per year is located at Albany Although uncontrolled woods fires have long been a major threat to the forests and sound forest practices in the District in recent years the tendency among forest owners to use controlled prescribed burning has greatly lessen ed the number of major conflagrations However even with this form of insur ance against damaging fires over 177000 acres of forest land were burned in the District in 19 Only one county Brooks has recognized the import ance of forest fire prevention to the extent of entering into a cooperative agreement with the Gsorgia Department of Forestry to establish countywide forest fire protection In the fourteen counties in District 2 forty percent or 156158 acres of all land listed on the 19 tax digest was owned in units of 500 acres or more by Eh owners For individual counties there is considerable varia tion in the proportion held in the 500 acre and larger ownership group The largest percentage is in Farly County where 129 owners hold 51 percent and the lowest in Tift County with 9 Owners holding 10 percent of the total area These holdings do not necessarily indicate ownership of a contiguous tract of land but possibly a number of separate tracts located in the county g i LLom BAKER COUNTY Total area 22780 acres Forest area 135337 acres 59 percent Total net sawtiniber volume 214826000 board feet Pine 193835000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 20991000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 350700 cords Pine 142200 cords Pulping hardwoods 5580 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 152700 cords Stocking Good 67668 acres Medium 10827 acres Poor 56842 acres Area burned 1944 1353 acres 9 A A V Ly BROOKS COUNTY Total area 312080 acres Forest area 162539 acres 51 percent Total net sawtimber volume 351696000 board feet Pine 320872000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 30824000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 495900 cords Pine 199600 cords Pulping hardwoods 162900 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 1330 cords Stocking Oood 95898 acres Medium 17879 acres Poor 48762 acres Area burned 1944 1625 acres 10 i Ls5 CALHOUN COUNTY Total area 184960 acres Forest areas 9330 acres 51 percent Total net sawtimber volume 112586000 board feet Pine 63423000 board feet Hardwood and cypress U9l63OOO board feet Total net cordwood volume 179500 cords Pine 26700 cords Pulping hardwoods 112900 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 39900 cords Stocking Good 60371 acres Medium 1887 acres Poor 32072 acres Area burned 1944 30186 acres 11 i L Sow 3 i JCOLQUITT COUHTY Total area 360320 acres Forest area 156379 acres 43 percent Total net sawtimber volume 357885000 board feet Pine 330797000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 27088000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 241100 cords Pine 190800 cords Pulping hardwjods 47500 cords Nonpulping hardroods and cypress 2800 cords Stocking Good 68807 acres Medium 28l4g acres Poor 59i24 acres Area burned 1944 28lUg acres 12 1 IT i DECATUR C0OTTY Total area 392320 acres Forest area 266335 acres 68 percent Total net sawtimber volume klG234000 board feet Pine 37195000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 42039000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 5800000 cords Pine 343800 cords Pulping hardwoods 134500 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 66500 cords Stocking Good 130529 acres Medium 13319 cacres Poor 122537 acres Area burned 1944 7992 acres 13 i 3r i DOUGHERTY COUNTY Total area 210560 acres Forest area 100016 acres Hg percent Total net sawtiniber volume 12775000 board feet Pine 10773000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 35032000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 329200 cords Pine 76900 cords Pulping hardwoods 115700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 136600 cords Stocking Good 51009 acres Medium 6001 acres Poor Uo006 acres Area burned I9UU 16002 acres lk9t v lv lb c ft 5 ZIP 3 ky EARLY COUNTY Total area 336640 acres Forest area 175389 acres 52 percent Total net sawtimber volume 226523000 board feet Pine 168767000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 57216000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 39000 cords Pine 120500 cords Pulping hardwoods 157700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 90600 cords Stocking Good 8591 acres Medium 10523 acres Poor 78925 acres Area burned 1944 22800 acres 15 3 St a toi rovi S GRADY COUNTY Total area 298880 acres Forest area 176040 acres 59 percent Total net sawtinber volume 410031000 board feet Pine 372515000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 37516000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 606700 cords Pine 35100 cords Pulping hardwoods 193300 cords ITonpulping hardwoods and cypress 48300 cords Stocking Good 132030 acres Medium 3521 acres Poor 40489 acres Area burned 1944 1J60 acres 16mr w S J MILLER COUNTY Total area 183620 acres Forest area 102126 acres 56 percent Total net sawtimber volume i25U3iOOO board feet Pine 107448000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 17983000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 184300 cords Pine 84500 cords Pulping hardwoods 25100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 74700 cords Stocking Good 3574 acres Medium 714 acres Poor 59233 acres Area burned 1944 2042 acres 17sxz c v W s WiiMITCHELL COUNTY Total area 32700 acres Forest area 148176 acres 15 percent Total net sawtimber volume 323223000 board feet Pine 30001000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 21222000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 31500 cords Pine 167200 cords Pulping hardwoods 84100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 63200 cords Stocking Good 83l46 acres Medium l4g48 acres Poor 50482 acres Area burned ig44 11878 acres 18BBH A L s t J S SSEMI1T0LS COUNTY Total area 177280 acres Forest area 106191 acres 60 percent Total net sawtimber volume 94609000 board feet Pine 80186000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 14423000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 85100 cords Pine 60800 cords Pulping hardwoods 3100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 21200 cords Stocking ood 20176 acres Medium 6372 acres Poor 79643 acres Area burned 1944 3186 acres 19THOMAS COUNTY Total area 347520 acres Forest area 197391 acres 57 percent Total net sawtimber volume 441453000 board feet Pine 409137000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 32316000 board feet Total net cordvrood volume 409800 cords Pine 209000 cords Pulling hardwoods 135800 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 65000 cords Stocking Good 110539 acres Medium 19739 acres Poor 67113 acres Area burned 1944 15791 acres 20A S A S o vfc 4TIFT COUNTY Total area 17020 acres Forest area 90568 acres 53 percent Total net sawtimber volume 1957000 board feet Pine 130799000 board feet Hardwood and cypress Ik95000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 104500 cords Pine 67500 cords Pulping hardwoods 33300 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 3700 cords Stocking Good 0756 acres Medium 13525 acres Poor 36227 acres Area burned 191 1177 acres 21Q U A WORTH COUNTY Total area 371200 acres Forest area 191539 acres 52 percent Total net sawtimber volume U3l4Oi5OOO board feet Pine 397716000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 36299OOO board feet Total net cordvood volume 20200 cords Pine 15500 cords Pulping hardwoods 79100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 6600 cords Stocking Good S6193 acres Medium 26815 acres Poor 78531 acres Area burned I9UU 22985 acres 22x 9 Lv 25 9 r V V I cn SUMMARY OF DISTRICT 2 Total area 3906560 acres Forest area 2102706 acres 54 percent Total net sawtimber volume 3847091000 board feet Pine 3409434000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 437657000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 4455300 cords Pine 2209100 cords Pulping hardwoods 1340800 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 905 O cords Stocking Good 1071807 acres Medium 180613 acres Poor 850286 acres Area burned 1944 177522 acres 23DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED General Total area Entire acreage within the boundaries of the unit con sidered including water areas Total areas used were obtained from the publica tion Areas of the United States I9U0 U S Bureau of the Census 1942 Forest area Acreage obtained from aerial photographs having a forest cover agricultural urban water roads rightofways and other non forest areas omitted Forest land Land supporting a forest cover or which if cleared does not show evidence of being used for improved pasture agricultural urban or other nonforest use Net volume Volume from which cull sweep and mortality volumes have been deducted Board feet Board foot measure log scale by International 5inch rule Cord Standard cord k x k x 8 feet in dimensions Top diameter Minimum top diameters for pine and cypress 5f inches for hardwoods g inches all trees having large branches forked top excessive crook or other defect to an acceptable utilization top diameter dbh Diameter breast high feet above the average ground level Naval stores crop Ten thousand cups or faces Forest Types Longleafslash or loblolly pine Forest stands in which over 75 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are longleaf slash andor loblolly pines Pinehardwoods Forest stands in which 50 to 75 percent inclusive of the dominant and codominant stems are pine and the remainder are hardwoods Hardwoods Forest stands in which more than 50 percent of the domin ant and codominant stems are hardwoods Species Croups Pines All pines regardless of speciesprincipally longleaf slash and loblolly Cypress Pondcypress and baldcypress Hardwoods All hardwood species Pulping hardwoods Bay magnolia yellow poplar red maple all species of gums and other softtextured species Nonpulping hardwoods Firm textured species such as ash hickory elm persimmon birch beech holly and all oaks except blackjack and bluejack which were considered as cull and are not included in the cordwood volume data Forest Condition Classes Oldgrowth Forest stands having the characteristics of mature original forests Secondgrowth Forest stands which have replaced the original forests Size Classes Sawtimber a Pine trees nine inches dbh and larger which are 24 s 12 IT S tA50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log b Cypress same qualifications as pine c Hardwood trees 13 inches dbh and larger which are 50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log Cordwood Any tree between 49 inches and the minimum sawlog dbh at least 75 percent sound and having a reasonably straight stem with the exception of scrub oaks such as blackjack and bluejack oaks and all other species which because of fork crook extreme limbiness or other sound defects will never become suitable for sawtiraber Reproduction All trees smaller than 5 inches dbh Stocking Number Trees Required 1 Good Medium Poor Sawtimber Plot Size 10 12 trees 15 5lk 4 or less acre 14 16 trees 6 35 2 or less acre 18 3 2 1 or less acre Cordwood Reproduction 3 10 2 59 1 or less 4 or less 140 acre 140 acre if Scrub oak and associated minor species excluded 25s yv 9c LN Jvo s fr kj a a 3 ra0 FORESTRY BULLETIN NO 3 OCTOBER 1045 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 8 GENERAL LIBR NOV 14 i Y Of fteURis8 THE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OP GEORGIA IN COOPERATION WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OP FORESTRY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION Forestry Bulletin No 2 October 1945 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 8 by B F Grant and A E Patterson The Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia in cooperation with The Georgia Department of Forestry The American Forestry AssociationFOREWORD The Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal was initiated in July 19 under a cooperative agreement between the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia the Georgia Department of Forestry and the American Forestry Association The purpose of the survey is to determine on a county basis l the volume of sawtimber cordwood and other forest products 2 the rate at which this timber is growing 3 drain and mortality k acreage burned annually 5 area of forest land 6 cutting practices and 7 management trends The field work in District 8 was done in January February and March 195 This publication is a preliminary report and the data are subject to correction before they are published in a state report to be issued early in lk Only items 1 k and 5 above are considered in this report The others need considerable interpretation and additional study before releasing and they too will form part of the state report The Georgia Department of Forestry through Director J M Tinker furnished help from the State and District Staff in the collection of field data The American Forestry Association through Director John B Woods and Regional Consultant Charles R Ross approved general plans for the project and assisted in the collection of field data Coordination of the survey and report preparation were under the supervision of the authors Appreciation is expressed to the Agricultural Adjustment Administra tion the School of Forestry of the University of Georgia and to the Georgia Forestry Association for valuable assistance in the survey Special acknowledgement is due the following members of the Georgia Department of Forestry R Bruce MacGregor formerly State Marketing Aide Guyton DeLoach District Forester Lee Webb and W W Holmes District Marketing Aides Robert K Boydell of the Agricultural and Industrial Develop ment Board and L W R Jackson of the Division of Forest Pathology Bureau of Plant Industry Soils and Agricultural Engineering U S Department of Agriculture Ellis Arnall Governor of Georgia AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OE GEORGIA Blanton Fortson Chairman L Vaughan Howard Executive Director Name of Member Address Ivan Allen Atlanta T F AbercrombieAtlanta Charles L BowdenMacon W N BanksGrantville Cason J CallawayHamilton M D CollinsAtlanta Ryburn G Clay Atlanta Mrs Prank C DavidColumbus Blanton Eortson Athens Charles B GramlingAtlanta Robert W Groves Savannah Alfred W JonesSea Island Tom Binder Atlanta Wiley L MooreAtlanta Walter R McDonald Atlanta Henry MclntjshAlbany W H McNaughton Cartersville J L PilcherMeigs Ed Stevens Dawson Mo King TuckerWaynesboro Wilson Williams Atlanta iatz CONTENTS Description of Georgia District 8 5 Appling County Data 10 Atkinson County Data Bacon County Data12 Berrien County Data 13 Brantley County Data1 Camden County Data15 Charlton County Data Clinch County Data 17 Coffee County Data 18 Cook County Data 1 Schols County Data0 Glynn County Data21 Irwin County Data 22 Jeff Davis County Data 23 ok Lanier County DataH Lowndes County Data 25 Pierce County Data2 Telfair County Data27 Ware County Data2S Wayne County Data29 Summary of Georgia District 8 Data30 Definitions31HBiMiMIBHBHH A i p y uDESCRIPTION OF GEORGIA DISTRICT 8 Georgia District 8 coincides with District 8 of the Georgia Depart ment of Forestry and Georgia Congressional District 8 It is located in the south central part of the state and embraces 20 counties Listed alphabetically these counties are Appling Brantley Coffee Irwin Pierce Atkinson Camden Cook Jeff Davis Telfair Bacon Charlton Schols Lanicr Ware Berrien Clinch Glynn Lowndes Wayne The total area of the District including water areas is 6277120 acres Of this total area 74 oercent or 4640379 acres is in forest 1 land The Okefenokee Swamp in Charlton Clinch and Ware Counties contain ing nearly 500000 acres is excluded from the forest land area of the District hut the islands off the coast of Camden and Glynn Counties are included Among the principal cities of the District are Waycross Yaldosta Brunswick and Douglas Other cities are Adel Alma Baxley Blackshcar Folkston Hazelhurst Homerville Jesup Lakeland McRae Nashville Nahunta Ocilla Pearson and Woodbine An excellent road system consisting of federal and state paved highways and state and county improved roads comprise a net of transport facilities between all towns and rural districts In addition the District is traversed by seven railroads the principal ones being the Atlantic Coast Line Georgia and Florida Southern Seaboard Air Line and the AtlajftaBirminghm and Coast 1 Definitions and explanations of forestry terms as used by the Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal are given on page 3L 5 wij23 aaanrww tfWwvJ3GuC52 It C f 1 0 M p Principal rivers in the District are the Altamaha which borders the District on the east the Ocmulgee which flows through the northern part of the District the Withlacoochee which partially borders the District on the west the St Marys which partially borders the District on the south the Alapaha Sat ilia and Suwannee which traverse the District Traffic on the Altamaha Satilla and St Marys especially by barges is an important source of transportation for forest products Brunswick with a deepwater port is an important center for the export of forest products especially naval stores to domestic and foreign ports From the standpoint of dominant interest in forest use the production of naval stores has long held the most prominent position in the District with the production of lumber pulpwood poles piling and other commodities secondary in the minds of most forest owners Markets for each of these products are available in the District and with the recent awakening of many forest owners to the advantage of integrated utilization it can be safely predicted that these markets will be increased in the future Practically all of the forest area of the District is covered by one of three forest types Principal among these from the standpoint of coverage is the longleafslash pine type the pinehardwoodcypress type and the hardwoods type Each of these types is dominated by the species its name implies Practicallly all of the types are composed of secondgrowth stands Small scattered tracts of oldgrowth timber occur occasionally in all types but in the aggregate they comprise only a small proportion of the total timber volume and an even smaller proportion of the forest area 6 aari i 1 C The net volume of pine hardwood and cypress sawtimber in the 2 District totals 6466730000 hoard feet excluding timber in the Oko fenokee Swamp Approximately 85 percent or 5448710000 board feet of this total volume is pine sawtimber The remaining 1018020000 board feet are hardwood and cypress sawtimber On the basis of total forest land acreage this represents an average of 1174 board feet of pine and 219 board feet of hardwood and cypress per acre Under present as well as under normal conditions and from both a physical and an economic stand point almost the entire volume of sawtimber can be listed as accessible The hardwood and cypress sawtimber is scattered and the volume per acre is small Net cordwood volume in the District not including sawtimber sized trees totals 13jU7700 cords Of this total 7748900 cords or 56 per cent are pine 4116200 cords or 30 percent are pulping hardwoods and 1882600 cords or l4 percent arc nonpulping hardwoods and cypress This is an average volume per acre for forest land of 17 cords of pine 09 cords of pulping hardwoods and 04 cords of nonpulping hardwoods and cypress or a total of 30 cords per forest land acre of all species Naval stores production varies from a low in Glynn County where five or six operators work approximately twelve crops to a high in Appling and Clinch where more than 700 operators work approximately 200 crops and 80 operators work approximately 220 crops respectively In the District nearly 2800 operators are working approximately 2100 crops Of the 4640379 acres of forest land in the District 70 percent is rated as having good stocking 11 percent as having medium stocking and 19 percent as having poor stocking Many of the areas classified as poorly 2 Volume and other pertinent data are given by counties in the latter portion of this bulletin 7 I jsarvywwwfSajhartJ i v K BBHkstocked have apparently been in such a condition for years indicating the necessity for artificial means of restocking The fact that more than Ik million pine seedlings have been distributed in the District within the past 15 years gives evidence that such a condition does exist and that an attempt is being made by forest owners to adjust the condition in favor of better forestry practice More than 750000 acres of forest land or about 16 percent of the forested area in the District were burned in igUU This includes woodlands on which controlled prescribed burning was applied as well as those which were burned by wild fires The latter have long been a major threat to the forests as well as a deterrent to the application of sound forest practices in the District Six counties Appling Brantley Camden Glynn Lowndes and Wayne have established countywide fire protection in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Forestry Six additional counties Atkinson Charlton Clinch Schols Lanier and Ware are also protecting a portion of the forest land in Timber Protective Organizations in cooperation with that Department In the twenty counties in District 8 fortyfive percent or 2816546 acres of all land listed on the I9UU tax digest was owned in units of 1000 acres or more by 638 owners For individual counties there is considerable variation in the proportion held in the 1000 acre and larger ownership group The largest percentage is in Clinch County where US owners hold 80 percent and the lowest in Cook County with 6 owners holding 7 percent of the total area These holdings do not necessarily indicate ownership of a contiguous tract of land but possibly a number of separate tracts located in the county g J The Georgia Department of Forestry is managing 37000 acres of timberland in Ware County under a 99 year lease from the Soil Conservation Service United States Department of Agriculture and 1000 acres in Appling County which is owned outright The Bureau of Biological Survey United States Department of the Interior owns around 300000 acres of the Okefenokee Swamp and is administering it as a game and bird refuge 9 Una APPLING COUNTY Total area 329600 acres Forest area 272250 acres S3 percent Total net sawtimber volume 275086000 board feet Pine 232790000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 36296000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 340300 cords Pine 291900 cords Pulping hardwoods 18800 cords ftonpulping hardwoods and cypress 29600 cords Stocking Good 204188 acres Medium 10890 acres Poor 57172 acres Area burned 1944 46282 acres 10tt 2k 4 M ATKINSON COUNTY Total area 203520 acres Forest area 17417 acres 86 percent Total net savtimber volume 193336000 board feet Pine 179769000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 13567000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 52300 cords I Pine 386500 cords Pulping hardwoods 109800 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress U6000 cords Stocking Good 115115 acres Medium 38372 acres Poor 20930 acres Area burned lgUI 3883 acres 11 BACON OOUITTY Total area IS520 acres Forest area 137265 acres 73 percent Total net sawtimber volume 150223000 board feet Pine 136234000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 13939000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 37300 cords Pine 251900 cords Pulping hardwoods 22600 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 32800 cords Stocking Good 93340 acres Medium 16472 acres Poor 27453 acres Area burned 1944 23335 acres 12 tf J It Ly ABERRIEN COUNTY Total area 300800 acres Forest area 206048 acres 68 percent Total net sawtimber volume 20831000 board feet Pine 182176000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 26165000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 626200 cords Pino 450200 cords Pulping hardwoods 153600 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 22U00 cords Stocking Good 111266 acres Medium 63875 acres Poor 30907 acres Area burned 1944 57693 acres P q 13 BEANTLEY COUNTY Total area 236080 acres Forest area 25039 acres 89 percent Total net sawtimher volume 367 230000 board feet Pine 337379 000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 29360000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 842200 cords Pine 576200 cords Pulping hardwoods 175600 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 90400 cords Stocking Good 218474 acres Medium 5081 acres Poor 304g4 acres Area burned 1944 48268 acres s 14iiasrBB9i2m t JCAMDEN COUOTY Total area UUU800 acres Forest area 391583 acres 38 percent Total net sawtimber volume 5395000 board feet Pine U27217000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 112188000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 888800 cords Pine 607000 cords Pulping hardwoods 195800 cords onpulping hardwoods and cypress 86000 cords Stocking Good 321098 acres Medium 7832 acres Poor 62653 acres Area burned I9UU 78316 acres 15 A r s MBMCHAPLTON COUNTY 11 Total area 5H30 acres Forest area 243972 acres 48 percent Total net sawtimber volume 3Hi795000 board feet Pine 286179000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 256l6000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 878500 cords Pine 531900 cords Pulping hardwoods 209800 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress Stocking Good 190298 acres Medium 24397 acres Poor 29277 acres Area burned Ijkk 45915 acres P 9 9 t3ir 136800 cords 3 Excluding 231580 acres in the Okefenokee Swamp 16Vy 5 5 c lil Mfeb iBBniCLINCH COUNTY 4 Total area 510020 acres Forest area 45952 acres 90 percent Total net eawtimber volume 759674000 board feet Fine 601773000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 157901000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 2014500 cords Pine 965500 cords Pulping hardwoods 823800 cords ITonpulping hardwoods and cypress 225200 cords Stocking Good 344687 acres Medium 68937 acres Poor 45958 acres Area burned 1944 50554 acres P 4 Excluding 37236 acres in the Okefenokee Swamp 17 ih s It s JCOFFEE CCOTTY Total area 392320 acres Forest area 265993 acres 68 percent Total net sawtimber volume 378641000 board feet Pine 332631000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 46010000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 66l100 cords Pine 469900 cords Pulping hardwoods 137200 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress Stocking Good 138316 acres Medium 37239 acres Poor 90438 acres Area burned 1944 48879 acres P V 54000 cords 18 COOK COUNTY Total area 149120 acres Forest area 97223 acres 66 percent Total net sawtimber volume 245066000 board feet Pine 204228000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 40838000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 330300 cords Pine 81300 cords Pulping hardwoods 177600 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 71400 cords Stocking Good 4l086 acres Medium 10760 acres Poor 45977 acres Area burned 1944 9782 acres 19 ECHOLS COUNTY Total area 272000 acres Forest area 27520 acres 91 percent Total net sawtimber volume 17604UQOO board feet Pine 379502000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 9652000 board feet Total net cordwood volumes 1247300 cords Pine 5lU500 cords Pulping hardwoods 653200 cords ITonpulping hardwoods and cypress 796 cords Stocking Good 170789 acres Medium 7029 acres Poor 29702 acres Area turned 1944 14851 acres 20 HBHInGHHi lOHBOIBBBBBBHBHHH I iJi s i GLYOT COOTTY Total area 279600 acres Forest area 250859 acres 84 percent Total net sawtimber volume 258009000 board feet Pine 167323000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 90686000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 271000 cords Pine 137200 cords Pulping hardwoods 113200 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 20600 cords Stocking Good 190653 acres Medium 2508 acres Poor 571698 acres Area burned 1944 55189 acres 21 1 It l4IKTIN COUNH Total area 238020 acres Forest area 135229 acres 57 percent Total net sawtimber volume 193127000 board feet Pine 175934000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 17253000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 417500 cords Pine 244300 cords Pulping hardwoods 147200 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 26000 cords Stocking Good 52739 acres Medium 29751 acres Poor 52739 acres Area burned 1944 2434l acres 22 i It Si JJSFF 2AVIS COUFTY Total area 211gUo acres Forest area 174980 acres S3 percent Total nat eawtimber volume 191586000 board feet Pine 153125000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 33461000 board feet Total not cordwood volume 400200 cords Fine 273200 cords Pulling hardwoods 73800 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 53200 cords Stocking Coods 117236 acrs Medium 10499 acres Poor U72U5 acres Area burned 194U 2977 acres 2 113 23 LJUFI33 COtTPTY Total area 117120 acres Forest area 80579 acres 69 percent Total net sawtimber volume 126401000 board feet Pine 135372000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 51029000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 32U00 cords Pine 173600 cords Pulping hardwoods 132600 cords FonTulping hardwoods and cypress 36200 cords Stocking Good 55600 acres Medium 15310 acres Poor 9669 acres Area burned lMk 11281 acres loo pS J f 2U L0WD3S C0TJ1TTY Total area 327680 acres Forest area 21266U acres 65 percent Total net sawtirober volume 4U5356000 board feet Pine 377 295000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 6806l000 board font Total net cordwood volume 10SU60C cords Pine 366800 cords Pulping hardwoods HQ3600 cords Fonrralping hardwoods and cypress 219200 cords Stocking Sood 125 U72 acres Medium 23393 acres Poor 637qc acres Area burned 19UU 6380 acres 2 PIERCE COUNTY Total area 218880 acres Forest area 162847 acres 74 percent Total net sawtimher volume 171752000 board feet Pine 153214000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 18538000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 448600 cords iLy6 Pine 267000 cords Pulping hardwoods 119000 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 62600 cords Stocking Good 128649 acres Medium 11399 acres Poor 22799 acres Area burned 1944 27684 acres 26 TELFAIR COUNTY Total area 221600 acres Fftrest area 197120 acres 70 percent Total net sawtimber volume UU2575OOO board feet Pine 3652U3OOO board feet Hardwood and cypress 77332000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1091800 cords Pine 3U6200cords Pulping hardwoods 259UOO cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress U86200 cords Stocking Good 12U186 acres Medium 13798 acres Poor 59136 acres Area burned I9UU 3753 acres 27 WARE COUNTY 5 Total area 53680 acres Forest area 31336 acres 5 percent Total net sawtimber volume 33312000 board feet Pine 318093000 board feet Hardwood and cynress 150149000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 733500 cords Pine 623900 cords Pulping hardwoods 70000 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress S9600 cords Stocking Good 216271 acres Medium 59553 acres Poor 37612 acres Area burned I9HU 50150 acres iVii 5 Excluding 195533 acres in the Okefenokee Swamp 28 WAYNE COUNTY Total area Ul344o acres Forest area 362173 acres gg percent Total net sawtimber volume 339881000 board feet Pine 291692000 board feet Hardwood and cypress kZ189000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 229300 cords JLlt Pine 189900 cords Pulping hardwoods 2U600 cords lionpulping hardwoods and cypress lU800 cords Stocking Good 293360 acres Medium 3622 acres Poor 65191 acres Area burned 19U 5797 acres 29 SUMMARY OF DISTRICT 8 Total area 6277120 acres Forest area U640379 acres jk percent Total net sawtimber volume 6 1466730000 board feet Pine 544g710000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 1018020000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1377700 cords Pine 7748900 cords Pulping hardwoods 4ll6200 cords Fonnulping hardwoods and cypress 1882600 cords Stocking Good 3252823 acres Medium 500717 acres Poor 886839 acres Area burned 1944 756930 acres 6 Excluding 464349 acres in Okefenokee Swamp 30DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED General Total area Entire acreage within the boundaries of the unit considered including water areas Total areas used were obtained from the publication Areas of the United States 1940 U S Bureau of the Census 1942 Forest area Acreage obtained from aerial photographs having a forest cover agricultural urban water roads rightof ways and other nonforest areas omitted Forest land Land supporting a forest cover or which if cleared does not show evidence of being used for improved pasture agricultural urban or other nonforest use Net volume Volume from which cull sweep and mortality volumes have been deducted Board feet Board foot measure log scale by International Jinch rule Cord Standard cord 4x4x8 feet in dimensions Top diameterMinimum top diameters for pine and cypress inches for hardwoods 8 inches all trees having large branches forked top excessive crook or other defect to an acceptable utilization top diameter dbh Diameter breast high 4 feet above the average ground level Naval stores crop Ten thousand cups or faces Forest Types Longleafslash pine Forest stands in which over 75 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are longleaf andor slash pine Pinehardwoodscypress Forest stands in which no species group alone accounts for as much as 75 percent of the stand Hardwoods Forest stands in which more than 50 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are hardwoods Species Groups Pines All pines regardless of species principally longleaf slash and loblolly Cypress Pondcypress and baldcypress Hardwoods All hardwood species Pulping hardwoods Bay magnolia yellow poplar red maple all species of gums and other softtextured species Nonpulping hardwoods Firm textured species such as ash hickory elm persimmon birch beech holly and all oaks except blackjack and bluejack which were considered as cull and are not included in the cordwood volume data Forest Condition Classes Oldgrowth Forest stands having the characteristics of mature original forests Secondgrowth Forest stands which have replaced the original forests Size Classes Sawtimber a Pine trees nine inches dbh and larger which are 31 UHHOBBH It 50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log b Cypress same qualifications as pine c hardwood trees 13 inches dbh and larger which are RO rrcent sound and will nroduce one 12 foot log Cordwood Any tree between U9 inches and the minimum sawlog dbn at least 75 percent sound and having a reasonably straight stem with the exception of scrub oaks such as blackjack and bluejack oaks and all other species which because of fork crook extreme limbincss or other sound defects will never become suitable for sawtimber Reproduction All trees smaller than 5 inches dbh Density dumber Trees Hequired 11 Sawtimber Good Medium Poor Plot Size 10 12 trees 15 5lU 4 or less acre lU 16 trees 6 35 2 or less acre 18 4 m 2 1 or less acre Go rdwo od 34 1 or less l4o acre Henroduction lOJ 59 4 or less l40 acre Scrub oak and associated minor species excluded Ul stands coming under the good or medium classification of the above table were classified as having good stocking The remaining sawtimber and cordwood stands ie those coming under the poor classification of the above table but having 59 trees of reproduction size on 140 acre were classified as having medium stocking Those sawtimber cordwood and repro duction stands coming under the poor classification of the above table but having 4 or less trees of reproduction size on l40 acre were classified as heavingpoor stocking 32 jfliMMBMHMHHlHBBMMI Siu FORESTRY BULLETIN NO 3 NOVEMBER 1945 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 1 THE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OP GEORGIA IN COOPERATION WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OP FORESTRY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATIONRHBHIHHHHIHIIHIIIHI It Forestry Bulletin ITo 3 November 195 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 1 13 F Grant and A E Fatterson Tho Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia in cooperation with The Georgia Department of Forestry The American Forestry Association FOREWORD The Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal was initiated in July 19 under a cooperative agreement between the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia the Georgia Department of Forestry and the American Forestry Association The purpose of the survey is to determine on a county oasis l the volume of sawtimber cordwood and other forest products 2 the rate at which this timber is growing 3 drain and mortality U acreage burned annually 5 area of forest land 6 cutting practices and 7 management trends The field work in District 1 was done in January February and March I9U5 This publication is a preliminary report and the data are subject to correction before they arc published in a state report to be issued early in I9U6 Only items 1 k and 5 above arc considered in this report The others need considerable interpretation and additional study before releasing and they too will form part of the state report The Georgia Department of Forestry through Director J M Tinker furnished help from the State and District Staff in the collection of field data The American Forestry Association through Director John B Woods and Regional Consultant Charles R Ross approved general plans for the project and assisted in the collection of field data Coordination of the survey and report preparation wsrc under the supervision of the authors Appreciation is expressed to the Agricultural Adjustment Administra tion the School of Forestry of the University of Georgia and to the Georgia Forestry Association for valuable assistance in the survey Special acknowledgement is due the following members of the Georgia Department of Forestry R Bruce MacGregor formerly State Marketing Aide Wll McCorib District Forester and J W Roberts District Marketing Aide Robert Z Boydell formerly with the Agricultural and Industrial Develop ment Board and L W R Jackson of the Division of Forest Pathology Bureau of Plant Industry Soils and Agricultural Engineering U S Department of Agriculture Ellis Arnall Governor of Georgia AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF GEORGIA Blanton Fortson Chairman L Vaughan Howard Executive Director Name of Member Address Ivan Allen Atlanta T F AbercrombieAtlanta Giiarles L BowdenMacon W N BanksGrantville Cason J CallawayHamilton M D CollinsAtlanta Ryburn G ClayAtlanta Mrs Frank C DavidColumbus Blanton FortsonAthens Charles B GramlingAtlanta Robert W Groves Savannah Alfred W JonesSea Island Tom Binder Atlanta Wiley L MooreAtlanta Walter R McDonald Atlanta Henry MclntoshAlbany W H McNaughton Cartersville J L FilcherMeigs Ed StevensDawson M King TuckerWaynesboro Wilson Williams Atlanta CONTENTS Description of Georgia District 1 5 Bryan County Data3 Bui loch Comity Datain Burke County Data11 Candler County Data 12 Chatham County Data13 Effingham County Data1I4 Emanucl County Data15 Evans County Data16 Jenkins County Data17 Liherty County Datalg Long County Data19 Mclntosh County Data20 Montgomery County Data 21 Screven County Datat22 Tattnail County Data23 Treutlcn County Data2k Toomhs County Data25 Wheeler County Data26 Summary of Georgia District 1 Data 27 Definitions 2S DESCRIPTION OF GEORGIA DISTRICT 1 Georgia District 1 is located in southeast Georgia and embraces 18 counties It is identical to District 1 of the Georgia Department of Forestry and Georgia Congressional District 1 Listed alphabetically the counties in the District are Bryan Candler Emanuel Liberty Montgomery Treutlen Builoch Chatham Evans Long Scrcven Toombs Burke Effingham Jenkins Mclntosh Tattnall tftieeler The total area of the District including water areas is 518140 1 acres Of this total area 70 percent or 3639868 acres is in forest land The principal cities of the District are Savannah Statesboro Swains boro and Waynesboro Other cities aro Alamo Claxton Darien Hinesville Ludowici Lyons Mcttcr Millen Mt Vernon Pembroke Reidsville Soperton Springfield and Sylvania An excellent road system consisting of federal and state paved high ways and state and county improved roads comprise a network of transport facilities between all towns and rural districts In addition the District is traversed by several railroads Among those are The Southern Seaboard Air Line Georgia and Florida Central of Georgia and the Atlantic Coast Line Principal rivers in the District are the Altamaha which borders the District on the southwest the Savannah which borders the District on the east the Qconee which touches the District on the west and the Canoochco and Ogeechec which traverse the District in a northwest to southeast di rection Traffic on the Altamaha and Savannah especially by barges is an important source of transportation for forest products Savannah with a deepwater port is an important center for the export of forest products naval stores to domestic and foreign norts iy 1 Definitions and explanations of forestry terms as used by the Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal are given on page 28 5 IFrom the standpoint of dominant interest in forest use the production of naval stores has long held the most prominent position in the District with the production of lumber poles piling pulpwood and other commodities secondary in the minds of most forest owners Markets for each of these products are available in the District and with the recent awakening of many forest owners to the advantage of integrated utilization it can be safely predicted that these markets will be increased in the future Practically all of the forest area of the District is covered by one of four forest tyoes Principal among these from the standpoint of coverage is the longleafslash pine type the pinehardwoodcypress type the loblolly hardwoods type and the hardwoods type Each of these types is dominated by tha species its name implies Practically all of the typos arc composed of secondgrowth stands Small scattered tracts of oldgrowth timber occur occasionally in all types but in the aggregate they comprise only a small portion of the total timber volume and an even smaller proportion of the forest area The net volume of pine hardwood and cypress savtimber in the District totals 6407Ul2000 board feet Approximately 81 percent or 5193394000 board feet of this total volume is pine sawtirnber The remaining 1214018000 board feet arc hardwood and cyorcss sawtirnber On the basis of total forest land acreage this represents an average of 1427 board feet of pine and 333 board feet of hardwood and cypress per acre Under present as well as under normal conditions and from both a physical and an economic standpoint almost the entire volume of sawtirnber can be listed as accessible The hardwood and cypress sawtirnber is scattered and the volume nor acre is small 2 2 Volume and other pertinent data are given by counties in the latter portion of this bulletin 6I IT Net cordwood volume in the District not including sawtimber sized tres totals 153gU300 cords Of this total 5858700 cords or 38 per cent arc nine 682200 cords or kk percent are pulping hardwoods and 2683UO0 cords or 18 percent arc nonpulping hardwoods and cypress This is an average volume per acre for forest land of 16 cords of pine 19 cords of pulping hardwoods and 07 cords of nonpulping hardwoods and cypress or a total of U2 cords per forest land acre of all species Naval stores production varies from none in Burke County which is just north of the slash and longlcaf pine belt to a high in Ernanuel County where 509 operators work 158 crops In the District nearly 2400 operators work approximately S85 crops Of the 3639868 acres of forest land in the District 69 percent or 25109 acres is rated as having good stocking 6 percent or 215605 acres as having medium stocking and 25 percent or 913769 acres as having poor stocking Many of the areas classified as poorly stocked have apparently been in such a condition for years indicating the necessity for artificial means of restocking The fact that more than lU million pine seedlings have been distributed in the District within the past 15 years gives evidence that such a condition does exist and that an attempt is being made by forest owners to adjust the condition in favor of better forestry practice More than 905000 acres of forest land or about 25 percent of the forested area of the District were burned in lhk This includes woodlands on which controlled prescribed burning was applied as well as those which were burned by wild fires The latter have long been a major threat to the forest as well as a deterrent to the application of sound forest practices in the District Seven counties Bryan Burke Chatham Ernanuel Jenkins Montgomery and Treutlen have established countywide fire protection in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Forestry Two additional counties 7 I Ih iiryxvar rcrjar Liberty and Mclntosh are also protecting a portion of the forest land in timber protective organizations in cooperation with the State Department In the lg counties in District 1 thirtythree percent or 1704379 acres of all land listed on the 1944 tax digest was owned in units of 1000 acres or more by 631 owners For individual counties there is considerable variation in the proportion held in the 1000 acre and larger ownership group The largest percentage is in Long County where 2f owners hold 54 percent and the lowest in Toombs County where 19 owners hold 13 percent of the total area These holdings do not necessarily indicate ownership of a contiguous tract of land but possibly a number of separate tracts located in the countyBHTAN COUNTY Total area 291200 acres Forest area 252305 acres 87 percent Total net sawtimber volume 82532000 board feet Pine 760700000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 63832000 toard feet Total net cordwood volume 1869800 cords Pine 683600 cords Pulping hardwoods 853700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 332500 cords Stocking Good 222029 acres Medium 10092 acres Poor 20IZk acres Area burned 19 35323 acres 9 I It BULLOCH COUNTY Total area SUOO acres Forest area 28U083 acres 65 percent Total net sawtimber volume 529120000 board feet Pine 44189000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 87226000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1487900 cords Pine 565800 cords Pulping hardwoods 835400 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 86700 cords Stocking Good 161927 acres Medium 22727 acres Poor 99429 acres Area burned 1944 7386l acres 10 aaTyjJt Ik rcI BTJPJCE COOHTY Total area 53280 acres Forest area 331203 acres 62 percent Total not sawtimber volume 560011000 board feet Pine 361019000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 198992000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1692900 cords Pine 301000 cords Pulping hardwoods 936900 cords Uonpiolping hardwoods and cypress Stocking Good 218594 acres Medium 9936 acres Poor 102673 acres Area burned I9UU 105985 acres U55000 cords 11 It i5 IT I CMDLSF COUNTY Total area l6o6Uo acres Forest area 97330 acres 6l percent Total net sawtimiber volume 16362000 board feet Pine lc5756000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 20606000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 303200 cords Pine 133000 cords Pulping hardwoods 148200 cords ITonpulping hardwoods and cypress 22000 cords Stocking Good 57720 acres Medium 4891 acres Poor 35219 acres Area burned I9UU 31305 acres 12 xssaxffiiiiaiai CHATHAM COUTTTY Total area 321280 acres Forest area 2klSlk acres 75 percent Total not sawtimber volume 374310000 board feet Pine 309115000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 65195000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1792300 cords Pine 655500 cords Pulping hardwoods 817500 cords ITonpulping hardwoods and cyDress 319300 cords Stocking Good 212349 acres Medium 9675 acres Poor 19350 acres Area burned 194 332b2 acres 13 EFFINGHAM COUNTY Total area 307i200 acres Forest area 258662 acres 84 percent Total net sawtiiriber volume U6U590000 board feet Pine 35UU9UOOO board feet Hardwood and cypress 110096000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1599t900 cords Pine U33100 cords Pulping hardwoods 857100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 309700 cords Stocking Good 15002U acres Medium 18106 acres Poor 90532 acres Area burned I9UU 75012 acres lU CSixSl II IT r si V MANUEL COUNTY Total area 439040 acres Forest area 280986 acres 64 percent Total net sawtimber volume 291030000 board feet Pine 258155000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 32875000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 223500 cords Pine 156700 cords Pulping hardwoods 64600 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 2200 cords Stocking Good 168592 acres Medium 5620 acres Poor 106774 acres Area burned 1944 109584 acres 15 SSSBdsaasaaSSSn j43 IT EVANS COUNTY Total area 119040 acres Forest area 79757 acres 67 percent Total net sawtirrbcrvolume 122779000 board feet Pine 108695000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 14084000 board foet Total net cordwood volume 242300 cords Pine 122HOO cords Pulping hardwoods 104000 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 15900 cords Stocking Oood 5337 acres Medium 6321 acres Poor 19939 acres Area burned 1944 19141 acres 16 JEKKINS COUNTY Total area 22U640 acres Forest area 117U87 acres 52 percent Total net sawtiniber volume 15296000 board feet Pine 11359000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 31707000 board feet Total not eordwood volume UOOO cords Pine 156700 cords Pulping hardwoods 185100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 62500 cords Stocking Good 69318 acres Mediums 587 acres Poor U295 acres Area burned I9UU 32771 acres 17 IT rjy LIBERTY COUNTY Total area Jkj040 acres Forest area 247975 acres 2 percent Total net savtimbor volume 483427000 board feet Pine 443379000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 40048000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1019200 cords Pine 565400 cords Pulling hardwoods 319i900 cords Honpulping hardwoods and cypress 133900 cords Stocking Good 121022 acres Modiun 24793 acres Poor 42155 acres Area burned 194 44636 acres 18 AJiwissCitxii a B It 0 LONG COUNTY Total area 257920 acres Forest area 239608 acres 93 percent Total net sawtimber volume 3H873000 board feet Pine 265626000 board feet Hardwood and cypress U627000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 558000 cords Pine UgOO cords Pulping hardwoods 32100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 3700 cords Stocking Good 15339 acres Medium 3355 acres Poor 5271 acres Area burned I9UU 7922 acres 19 McINTOSH COU1TTY Total area 306560 acres Forest area 257387 acres g4 percent Total net sawtimber volume 217363000 board feet Pine 176S25000 board feet Hardwood and cypress Uo538000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 265100 cords Pine 231600 cords Pulping hardwoods 23200 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 10300 cords Stocking Good 1956l4 acres Medium 10296 acres Poor 51477 acres Area burned 1944 4g904 acres 20 aaiaaaigaffiBCwa IT fa MONTGOMERY COUNTY Total area 151680 acres Forest area 91008 acres 60 percent Total net sawtimber volume 328370000 board feet Pine 239228000 board feet Hardvrood and cypress 8912000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 31800 cords Pine 160100 cords Pulping hardwoods 155400 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 26300 cords Stocking Good 6U6l6 acres Medium 4550 acres Poor 21812 acres Area burned 1944 20932 acres 21 T HSCREV3N COUNTY Total area 4l664o acres Forest area 272066 acres 65 percent Total net sawtimber volume 483929000 board feet Pine 306989000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 176940000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 2210600 cords Pine 315400 cords Pulping hardwoods 1142300 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 752900 cords Stocking Good l63240 acres Medium 10882 acres Poor 97944 acres Area burned 1944 8978 acres 22 TATTNALL COUNTY Total area 315520 acres Forest area 24l057 acres 76 percent Total net sawtimber volume 311035000 board feet Pine 27671000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 3294000 board feet Total net cordwood volume Ug6500 cords Pine 346000 cords Pulping hardwoods 9300 cords ITonpulping hardwoods and cypress 51200 cords Stocking Good 192gU6 acres Medium 192SU acres Poor 22927 acres Area burned 1944 50622 acres 23c It II TEEUTLEN COUNTY Total area 124160 acres Forest area 65929 acres 53 percent Total net sawtimber volume 180324000 board feet Pine 152940000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 27324000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 122000 cords Pine 79100 cords Pulping hardwoods 39800 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 3100 cords Stocking Good 42854 acres Medium 1978 acres Poor 21097 acres Area burned 1944 21097 acres 24IT SssiacSB IfTOOMBS COUBTT Total area 236l60 acres Forest area 146292 acres 62 percent Total net sawtimber volume 3H 37000 board feet Pine 263765000 board feet Hardwood and cypress U76i3OOO board feet Total net cordwood volume 31700 cords Pine 244500 cords Pulping hardwoods 75400 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 21800 cords Stocking Good 110169 acres Medium 102g2 acres Poor 2644l acres Area burned 1944 32317 acres 25 WHEELER COUNTY Total area 19584o acres Forest area 133759 acres 68 percent Total net sawtimber volume 321683000 board feet Pine 234484000 board feet Hardvrood and cypress 87199000 board feet Total net cord wood volume 423000 cords Pine 220300 cords Pulping hardwoods 162300 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 40700 cords Stocking Good 92294 acres Medium 6688 acres Poors 34777 acres Area burned 1944 26752 acres 26 rtr SUMMARY OP DISTRICT 1 Total area 5181440 acres Forest area 3639868 acres 70 percent Total net sawtimber volume 6407 112000 board feet Pine 519339000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 1214018000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 15384300 cords Pine 5858700 cords Pulping hardwoods 6842200 cords Honpulping hardwoods and cypress 2683400 cords Stocking Good 2510494 acres Medium 215605 acres Poor 913769 acres Area burned 1944 905807 acres 27 DEFINITIONS OF TEEMS USED General Total area Entire acreage within the boundaries of the unit considered including water areas Total areas used were obtained from the publication Areas of the United States 19I40 U S Bureau of the Census Forest area Acreage obtained from aerial photographs having a forest cover agricultural urban water roads rightofways and other non forest areas omitted Forest land Land supporting a forest cover or which if cleared does not show evidence of being used for improved pasture agricultural urban or other nonforest use Net volume Volume from which cull sweep and mortality volumes have been deducted Board feet Board foot measure log scale by International iinch rule CordStandard cord 4 x k x 8 feet in dimensions Top diameter Minimum top diameters for pine and cypress 5 inches for hardwoods inches all trees having large branches forked top excessive crook or other defect to an acceptable utilization top diameter flfr1Diameter breast high 4 feet above the average ground level Naval stores crop Ten thousand cups or faces Forest Types Longleafslash pine Forest stands in which over 75 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are longleaf andor slash pine Pinehardwoodscypress Forest stands in which no species group alone accounts for as much as 75 percent of the stand Loblollyhardwoods Forest stands in which 50 percent or more of the dominant and codominant stems are loblolly pine and the remaining are hardwoods Hardwoods Forest stands in which more than 50 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are hardwoods Species Groups Pines All pines regardless of species principally longleaf slash and loblolly Cypress Pondcyoress and baldcypress Hardwoods All hardwood species Pulping hardwoods Bay magnolia yellow poplar red maple all species of gums and other softtextured species Nonxmlping hardwoods Firm textured species such as ash hickory elm persimmon birch beech holly and all oaks except blackjack and bluejak which were considered as cull and are not included in the cordwood volume data Forest Condition Classes Oldgrowth Forest stands having the characteristics of mature original forests Secondgrowth Forest stands which have replaced the original forests 2g 335SV3J iasKinSCiWXicc Size Classes Sawtimber a Pine trees nine inches dbh and larger which are 50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log b Cypress same qualifications as pine c Hardwood trees 13 inches dbh and larger which are 50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log Cordwood Any tree between U9 inches and the minimum sawlog dbh at least 75 percent sound and having a reasonably straight stem with the exception of scrub oaks such as blackjack and bluejack oaks and all other species which because of fork crook extreme limbiness or other sound defects will never become suitable for sawtimber Reproduction All trees smaller than 5 inches dbh Density Number Trees Required II Sawtimber Good Medium Poor Plot Size 10 12 trees 15 5lU h or less acre Ik 16 trees 6 35 2 or less 5 acre 18 3 2 1 or less acre Cordwood 3 1 or less lUO acre Reproduction 10 59 k or less lUO acre 3 Scrub oak and associated minor species excluded All stands coming under the good or medium classification of the above table were classified as having good stocking The remaining sawtimber and cordwood stands ie those coming under the poor classification of the above table but having 59 trees of reproduction size on lUo acre were classified as having medium stocking Those sawtimber cordwood and repro duction stands coming under the poor classification of the above table but having 4 or less trees of reproduction size on lUo acre were classified as having poor stocking 29 tmmmrmm FORESTRY BULLETIN NO 4 DECEMBER 1945 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 3 GENERAL LIBRARY JAN UNIVERSITY tGIA THE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPS1ENT BOARD OP GEORGIA IN COOPERATION WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OP FORESTRY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATIONmrForestry Bulletin No k December 195 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 3 7 B F Grant and A E Patterson The Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia in cooperation with The Georgia Department of Forestry The American Forestry Associationj IT FOREWORD The Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal was initiatod in July 194 under a cooperative agreement between the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia the Georgia Department of Forestry and the American Forestry Association The purpose of the survey is to determine on a county basis l the volume of sawtimber cordwood and other forest products 2 the rate at which this timber is growing 3 drain and mortality k acreage burned annually 5 area of forest land 6 cutting practices and 7 management trends The field work in District 3 was done in April May and June 195 This publication is a preliminary report and the data are subject to correction before they are published in a state report to be issued early in 196 Only items 1 4 and 5 above are considered in this report The others need considerable interpretation and additional study before releasing and they too will form part of the state report The Georgia Department of Forestry through Director J M Tinker furnished help from the State and District Staff in the collection of field data The American Forestry Association through Director John B Woods and Regional Consultant Charles R Ross approved general plans for the nroject and assisted in the collection of field data Coordination of the survey and report preparation were under the supervision of the authors Appreciation is expressed to the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis tration the School of Forestry of the University of Georgia and to the Georgia Forestry Association for valuable assistance in the survey Special acknowledgement is due the following members of the Georgia Department of Forestry R Bruce MacGregor formerly State Market ing Aide Robert L Mosely formerly District Forester and the present State Marketing Aide M C Morrison District Marketing Aide and W S Black County Ranger Robert K Boydell formerly of the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board and L W R Jackson of the Division of Forest Pathology Bureau of Plant Industry Soils and Agricultural Engineering U S Depart ment of AgricultureHBHBHHHHEllis Arnall Governor nf Georgia AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD of GEORGIA Blanton Fortson Chairman L Vaughan Howard Executive Director Name of Member Address Ivan AllenfAtlanta T F Abercrombie Atlanta Charles L BowdenMacon W N BanksGrantville Cason J CallawayHamilton M D Collins Atlanta Ryburn G ClayAtlanta Mrs Frank C DavidColumbus Blanton FortsonAthens Charles 3 Gramling Atlanta Robert W GrovesSavannah Alfred TJ JonesSea Island Tom LinderAtlanta Wiley L Moore t Atlanta Walter R McDonald Atlanta Henry MclntoshAlbany W H McNaughtonCartersville J L Filcher Meigs Ed Stevens Dawson M King Tucker Waynesboro Wilson Williams AtlantaIH CONTENTS Description of Georgia District 3 5 Ben Hill County Data9 Chattahoochee County Data 10 Clay County Data 11 Crisp County Data 12 Dodge County Data 13 Dooly County Data lU Harris County Data 15 Houston County Data 16 Lee County Datat7 Macon County Data18 Marion County Data19 Muscogee County Data20 Peach County Data21 Pulaski County Data 22 Quitman County Data23 Randolph County Data f2 Schley County Data25 Stewart County Data26 Suivter County Data 27 Taylor County Data 28 Terrell County Data29 Turner County Data 30 Webster County Data 31 Wilcox County Data 32 Summary of Georgia District 3 Data f 33 Definitions3 It DESCRIPTION OF GEORGIA DISTRICT 3 This report covers Georgia District 3 which is the same area as District 3 of the Georgia Department of Forestry and Georgia Congressional District 3 It is located in the western part of central Georgia and includes portions of the upper coastal plain and the lower Piedmont The 2k counties included in the District are Ben Hill Dodge Dee Peach Schley Terrell Chattahoochee Dooly Macon Pulaski Stewart Turner Clay Harris Marion Quitman Sumtcr Webster Crisp Houston Muscogcc Randolph Taylor Wilcox The total area of the District including water areas is 5029760 acres Of this total area S2 nercent or 2751903 acres is in forest 1 land This varies from 36 percent in Terrell County to 85 percent in Chattahoochee County and from 36627 acres in Peach County to 202822 acres in Harris County Among the principal cities of the District are Columbus Americus Cordele and Fitzgerald Other cities are Abbeville Ashburn Buena Vista Butler Cusseta Cuthbert Dawson Eastman Ellaville Ft Gaines Fort Valley Georgetown Hamilton Hawkinsville Leesburg Lumpkin Oglethorpe and Preston An excellent road system consisting of federal and state paved highways and state and county improved roads comprise a net of transport facilities between all towns and rural districts In addition the District is traversed by several railroads among which are the Atlanta Birmingham and Coast the Central of Georgia the Seaboard Air Line and the Southern 1 Definitions and explanations of forestry terms as used by the Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal are given on pages 3 and 35 5 H I I 0 It ITPrincipal rivers in the District are the Chattahoochee forming the western boundry and the Flint and Ocmulgee which flow across the District in a north to south direction All three of these rivers were formerly important thoroughfares of transportation but since the develop ment of railroads and highways river traffic has been light Practically all of the forest area of the District is covered by one of four forest tyoes Principal among these from the standpoint of coverage is the longlcafslash rine type the longlcaf pine type the pine hardwoods type and the hardwoods type Each of those types is dominated by the species its name implies Virtually all of the tyoes are composed of secondgrowth stands Small scattered stands of oldgrowth timber occur occasionally in all tyoes but in the aggregate they comprise only a small proportion of the total timber volume and an even smaller proportion of the forest area In the southeast section of the District naval stores has long held the most prominent position from the standpoint of dominant interest in forest use while theproduction of lumber poles piling and pulpwood have been paramount in other parts of the District Markets for each of these products are available throughout the District Dodge County is one of the foremost naval stores producing counties in the state with around 165 operators working approximately IU5 crops Other Important counties from the standpoint of naval stores production arc Ben Hill Turner Crisp ilcox and Dooly In the District 270 operators are working approximately 2gg crops The net volume of oine hardwood and cypress sawtimber in the Districttotals 3276329000 board feet Approximately 76 percent or 2 Volume and other pertinent data are given by counties in the latter portion of this bulletin 6 j 4000468000 board feet of this total volume is nine sawtirnber The remaining 1275861000 board foot are hardwood and cypress sawtirnber On the basis of total forest land acreage this represents an average of 1452 board feet of pine and 463 board feet of hardwood and cypress per acre Under present as well as under normal conditions and from both a physical and an economic standpoint almost the entire volume of sawtirnber can be listed as accessible Most of the hardwood and cypress sawtirnber is scattered and the volume per acre is small Net cordwood volume in the District not including sawtirnber sized trees totals 9921400 cords Of this total 319500 cords or 44 percent are pine 4127800 cords or 42 percent are pulping hardwoods and l4l4100 cords or l4 percent arc nonpulping hardwoods and cypress This is an average volume per acre for forest land of 16 cords of pine 15 cords of pulping hardwoods and 05 cords of nonpulping hardwoods and cypress or a total of 36 cords per forest land acre of all species Of the 2751903 acres of forest land in the District 57 percent is rated as having good stocking 8 percent as having medium stocking and 35 percent as having poor stocking Many of the areas classified as poorly stocked have apparently been in such a condition for years indicating the necessity for artificial means of restocking mhe fact that more than IS million pine seedlings have been planted in the District within the past 15 years gives evidence that such a condition does exist and that an attempt is being made by forest owners to adjust the condition in favor of better forestry practice More than 273000 acres of forest land or about 10 percent of the forested area of the District were burned in 1944 This includes woodlands on which controlled prescribed burning was applied as well as those which 7 vere burned by wild fires The latter are a major threat to the forests as iell as a deterrent to the application of sound forest practices in the District Five counties Ben Hill Crisp Harris Terrell and Wilcox have established countywide fire protection in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Forestry In the 24 counties in the District 25 percent or 1278879 acres of all land listed on the lkk tax digest was owned in units of 1000 acres or more by 668 owners For individual counties there is considerable varia tion in the proportion held in the 1000 acre and larger ownership group The largest tTccntage is in Lee County where 6l owners hold 111389 acres or approximately U9 percent and the lowest is in Chattahoochee County with 5 owners holding 11993 acres or 7 nercent of the total area These holdings do not necessarily indicate ownership of a contiguous tract of land but possibly a number of separate tracts located in the county Federal owned lands in District 3 include Fort Benning Military Reservation in Muscogee Chattahoochee and Marion Counties Andcrsonville National Cemetery and Prison Park in Sumter and Macon Counties and the Pine Mountain Recreational Demonstration Area in Harris County The Pine Mountain State Park eonsisting of 1722 acres is partly in Harris County and the Chehaw Park and Game Refuge is partly in Lee County These two areas are under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Parks The State Depart ment of Wildlife owns 156 acres in Ben Hill County known as Bowens Mill Hatchery and Harris and Peach Counties each owns a small county forestSSSS BEN HILL COUHTY Total area 163200 acres Forest area 102000 acres 62 percent Total net sawtimber volume 20056000 board feet Pine 19077000 board feet Hardwood and cvnress 10087000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 180000 cords Pine 70800 cords Pulping hardwoods 91100 cords Fernpulping hardwoods and cypress 18100 cords Stocking Good 2UUS0 acres Medium 11220 acres Poor 66300 acres Area burned lykk 9180 acres 9 CFATTAHOOCHSE COUNTY Total area l6l920 acres Forest area 137470 acres 85 percent Total net sawtimber volume 305118000 board feet Pine 239952000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 65166000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 737700 cords Pine 298000 cords pulping hardwoods 288700 cords Fernpulping hardwoods and cynress 151000 cords Stocking Good 90731 acres Medium 279 acres Poor 43990 acres Area burned 1944 8248 acres 10 CLAY COUFTY Total area 13360 acres Forest area 8429b acres 59 percent Total net sawtimber volume 103U69000 board feot Fine 73231000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 30238000 board feet Total net cordwood volume l6l000 cords Pine 60400 cords Pulping hardwoods 69500 cords iTonTrulmrig hardwoods and cypress 31100 cords Stocking Good 57321 acres Medium 529 acres Poor 24U46 acres Area burned 1944 l6Ol6 acres 11 OISP COUNTY 1 Total area 190720 acres Forest area 7732 acres Ul percent Total net sawtimber volume 163120000 board feet Pine 137083000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 26037000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 155200 cords Fine 74000 cords Pulping hardwoods 69700 cords Nonpulping iaardwoods and cypress 11500 cords Stocking Good 33206 acres Medium 10066 acres Poor 3070 acres Area burned 19 520 acres 12 DODOS COUNTY Total area 30000 acres Forest area 177230 acres 55 percent Total net sawtimber volune U76136000 board feet Fine 4l94ll000 board feet Hardwood and eypress 56725000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 50700 cords Fine 392500 cords Pulping hardwoods 157300 cords Nonpulping hardvoods and cypress 3090 cords Stocking Good 132278 acres Medium 8864 acres Poor 30138 acres Area burned 1944 46093 acres 13 DOOLY COUNTY Total area 252300 acres orest area 96064 acres 33 percent Total net sawtimber volume 205272000 board feet Pine l6072000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 44549000 board feet Total net cordwood volumes 233600 cords Fin 115400 cords pulping hardvoods 96500 cords ITonpulping hardwoods and cypress 26700 cords Stocking Good 6725 acres Medium 10567 acres Poor 72772 acres Area burned igUUj 6724 acres 14 SS3ssiaHARRIS COUNTY Total area 302720 acres Forest area 202822 acres 67 percent Total net sawtimber volume 380695000 board feet Pine 280319000 board feet Hardwood and cypresss 100376000 board feet Total net eordnood volume 72500 cords Pine 553100 cords Pulping hardwoods 115U00 cords TJonnulping hardwoods and cypressj 56000 cords Stocking flood 1825U0 acres Medium 6084 acres Poor 14198 acres Area burned 1944 10l4l acres t 15 r HOUSTON COUNTY Total area 243200 acres Forest area 130112 acres 5 nercent Total net sawtimber volume 239590000 board feet Pino loO765OOr board font Hardwood and cynress 7825000 board feet Total net cordwood volume Ul3U00 cords Pine 1U6200 cords Pulping hardwoods 192900 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 79300 cords Stocking Good 79136S acres Medinm 13011 acres Poor 37733 acres Area burned 1944 9103 acres 16 1 LEE COUNTY Total area 229120 acres Forest area 1072 acres U7 rjereent Total net sawtimbar volume 253U66COO board feet Pine i5gU97OOO board feet Hardwood and cjmress 9U969000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 292UOO cords Pine 106700 cords Pulpihg hnrdvoods 12U100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 6l500 cords Stocking Good U5036 acres Medium 7o79 acres Poor 3U313 acres Area burned I9UU 11795 acres 17 SBsettsmgi 17 MAC01T COUNTY Total area 257920 acres Forest area 121738 acres kj percent Total net sawtlmber volume 22U699000 board feet Pine 142511000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 8218S000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 3UU300 cords Pine 102100 cords Pulping hardwoods 16200 cords Tonpulping hardwoods and cypress 79800 cords Stocking Good kg693 acres Medium 1978 acres Poor 33565 acres Area burned I9UU 730U acres 18 H xSxiMARTOH COUKTY Total area 233600 acres Forest area ikf402 acres 63 percent Total not sawtimber volume 94512000 board feet Pine 75311000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 19201000 board feet Total net cordood volume 704100 cords Pine 193000 cords Pulping hardwood8j 35200 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 160900 cords Stocking Good 63383 acres Medium 5896 acres Poor 78123 acres Area burned 1944 13266 acres 19 MTJSCOGEE COTJFTY Total area 342080 acres Forest area 103576 acres 73 percent Total net sawtiraber volume 2g6ll4000 board feet Pine 217510000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 686o4000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 424900 cords Pine 239000 cords Pulping hardwoodsi 125oOO cords Notwpulping hardvoods and cypress 60300 cords Stocking Sood 84932 acres Medium 3107 acres Poor 15537 acres Area burned 1944 62l4 acres 20 P9ACH COUNTY Total area SGGkQ acres Forest area 36627 acres 38 percent Total net sawtimber volume 3793000 board feet Pine 33157000 board feet Hardwood and cypress k336000 board feet Total net cordiood volume 152700 cords Pine 111700 cords Pulping hardtroods 36500 cords Hoiwpulping hardwoods and cypress U500 cords Stocking Good 3003U acres Medium Poor 6593 acres Area burned igUU 1099 acres 21 4FULASXI COUNTY Total area 162560 acres Forest area 83881 acres 52 percent Total net sawtimber volume 210676000 board feet Fine I7U163000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 36513000 board feet Total net cordwood volme 383200 cords Fine 231900 cords Pulning hardwoods 72 Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 79200 cords Stocking Good 52006 acres Medium 8388 acres Foor 23187 acres Area burned llkk 15099 acres 22 JiSSsiccSaSS QJJITMAN COUNTY Total area 109440 acres Forest area 76061 acres 70 percent Total net sawtimber volume 125626000 board feet Pine 95335000 board feetf Hardwood and cypress 29791000 board feet Total net cordrood volume 361100 cords Pine 120600 cords Pulping hardwoods 20000 cords ITonpulping hardwoods and cypress 40100 cords Stocking Good 5U76U acres Medium 1521 acres Poor 19776 acres Area burned I9UU 912gacres 23HAJEDOLPH COUNTY Total area 279040 acres Forest area 146U96 acres 52 percent Total net sawtimber volume 215202000 board feet Pine 183539000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 6l613000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 711100 cords Pine 228100 cords Pulping hardwoods lQl700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 78000 cords Stocking Good 105177 acres Medium 2930 acres Poor 38089 acres Area burned I9II 17580 acres 24 JbaiiismmmiiSCHLSY COUNTY Total area 103680 acres Forest area 55572 acres 54 percent Total net sartimber volume 85242000 board feet Pine 46883000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 38359000 board feet Total net cordvood volume 230900 cords Pine 67000 cords Pulping hardwoods 12800 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 35400 cords Stocking Good 22J85 acres Medium 7780 acres Poor 25007 acres Area burned 1944 3890 acres 25 IHHIHSTSWAHT COUNTY Total area 296320 acres Forest area 195571 acres 66 percent Total net sawtimber volume 425269000 board feet Pine 30672000 board feet Hardwood and cypress llg797000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1097500 cords Pine 475100 cords Pulping hardwoods 4gg900 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 133500 cords Stocking Good l4S63U acres Medium Poor 46937 acres Area burned I9UU 9779 acres 26 SUMTSRCOUNTY Total area 31830 acres porest area 1372gg acres kk percent Total net savtimber volume 326136000 board feet Pine 200511000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 125625000 board feet Total net cordrool volume 370900 cords Pine 126600 cords Pulping hardwoods 167200 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 77100 cords Stocking Good 57661 acres Medium 35695 acres Poor 3932 acres Area burned I9UU 15102 acres 27 TAYLOR COIBTTY Total area 257920 acres Forest area 156215 acres 6l percent Total net sawtimber volume k963000 board feet Pine 33672000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 16291000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 636600 cords Pine 15600 cords Pulping hardwoods 4lU300 cords Nonpulning hardwoods and cypress 7670 cords Stocking Good 62726 acres Medium UjoU acres Poor 29325 acres Area burned 19 3136 acres 1 22 TEP3ELL C0U1TTY Total area 210560 acres Forest area 76854 acres 36 percent Total net sairtimber volume 130183000 board feet Pine 78132000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 52051000 board feet Total net cordrood volume 199400 cords Pine 70300 cords Pulping hardwoods 91800 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 37300 cords Stocking Good Ul502 acres Medium 9222 acres Poor 26130 acres Area burned 1944 16907 acres 29 BMHB TURF3P COUNTY Total area IS7520 acres Forest area 93010 acres 50 percent Total net sawtimber volume 189980000 board feet Pine 17761000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 15219000 board feet Total net cordrood volume 138600 cords Pino 90200 cords Pulping hardwoods 4l100 cords Fonpulping hardwoods and cypress 7300 cords Stocking Good 3999U acres Medium 10231 acres Poor 42785 acres Area burned 19kk 7UUlacres 1 30TO STEP COUNTY Total area 124800 acres Forest area 713S6 acros 57 percent Total net sartimber volume 144051000 board feet Pine 9201000 board feet Hardvood and cypress 45650000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 360400 cords Pine 108700 cords Pulping hardwoods 194700 cords ITonpulping hardroods and cypress 57000 cords Stocking Good 39263 acres Medium 8566 acres Poor 23557 acres Area burned 1944 5710 acres 31V WILCOX COUNTY Total area 245760 acres Forest area 134922 acres 55 percent Total net saHimber volume 373753000 board feet Pine 319102000 board feet HardTOOd and cypress 54651000 board feet Total net cordvood volume 317200 cords Pine 187200 cords Pulping hardwoods 109200 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 20800 cords Stocking Good 6746l acres Medium l484l acres Poor 52620 acres Aroa burned 1944 18889 acres 32 ISUMMARY OF DISTRICT 3 Total area 5029760 acres Forest area 2751903 acres 52 percent Total net sawtimber volume 5276329000 board feet Pine 4000468000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 1275g6l000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 9921400 cords Pine 319500 cords Pulping hardwoods 4187800 cords Nonpulping hardwooda and cypress l4l4100 cords Stocking Good 1577092 acres Medium 225328 acres Poor 99483 acres Area burned 1944 273269 acres 33 BHHHhHHHBHBHH I DEFINITIONS OF TEEMS USED General Total areaEntir acreage within the boundaries of the unit considered including water areas Total areas used were obtained from the publication Areas of the United States 190 US Bureau of the Census 192 Forest area Acreage obtained from aerial photographs having a forest cover agricultural urban water roads rightofways and other non forest areas omitted Forest land Land supporting a forest cover or which if cleared des not show evidence of being used for improved pasture agricultural urban or other nonforest use Net volume Volume from which cull sweep and mortality volumes have been deducted Board feetBoard foot measure log scale by International inch rule Cord Standard cord k x k x feet in dimensions Tqq diameterMinirrram top diameters for pine and cypress 5 inches for hardwoods gir inches all trees having large branches forked top excessive crook or other defect to an acceptable utilization top diameter dbhDiameter breast high Uk feet above the average ground level Naval stores crop Ten thousand cups or faces Forest Types Longleafslash pine Forest stands in which over 75 percent of the dominant and codominant sterns are longleaf andor slash pine Longleaf pine iForest stands in which more than 50 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are longleaf pine PinehardwoodsForest stands in which 50 to 75 percent inclusive of the dominant and codominant stems are pine and the remainder are hardwoods Hardwoods Forest stands in which more than 50 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are hardwoods Srecies Groups Pines All pines regardless of species principally longleaf slash and loblolly Cypress Pondcypress and baldcyprcss Hardwoods All hardwood species Pulping hardwoods Bay magnolia yellow poplar red maple all species of gums and other softtextured species Nonpulping hardwoods Firm textured species such as ash hickory elm persimmon birch beech holly and all oaks except blackjack and bluejack which were considered as cull and are not included in the cordwood volume data Forest Condition Classes Oldgrowth Forest stands having the characteristics of mature original forests Secondgrowth Forest stands which have replaced the original forests Size Classes Savtimbera Pine trees nine inches dbh and larger which are 3Un B iixxxssmmMiMimm 50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log b Cypress same qualifications as pine c Hardwood trees 13 inches dbh and larger which arc 50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log Cordwood Any tree between H inches and the minimum sawlog dbh at least 75 percent sound and having a reasonably straight stem with the exception of scrub oaks such as blackjack and bluejack oaks and all other species which because of fork crook extreme limbiness or other sound defects will never become suitable for sawtimber Reproduction All trees smaller than 5 inches dbh Density Number Trees Required 1 Savtirnber Good Medium Poor Plot Size 10 12 trees 15 5lU 4 or less acre l4 16 trees 6 35 2 or less acre 18 1 3 2 1 or less g acre Cordwood 3 1 or less l40 acre Reproduction 10 59 k or less lUO acre 1 Scrub oak and associated minor species excluded All stands coming under the good or medium classification of the above table were classified as having good stocking The remaining sawtiraber and cordwood stands ie those coming under the poorclassification of the above table but having 59 trees of reproduction size on lUo acre were classified as having medium stocking Those sawtimber cordwood and repro duction stands coming under the poor classification of the above table but having k or less trees of reproduction size on l40 acre were classified as having poor stocking 3 35 MIHHfl FORESTRY BULLETIN NO 5 JANUARY 1946 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 6 THE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF GEORGIA IN COOPERATION WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATIONForestry Bulletin No 5 January 19146 FORSST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 6 y B F Grant and A S Patterson The Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia in cooperation with The Georgia Department of Forestry The American Forestry AssociationHHHIHIIHFOREWORD The Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal was initiated in July 19II under a cooperative agreement between the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia the Georgia Department of Forestry and the American Forestry Association The purpose of the survey is to determine on a county basis l the volume of sawtimbcr cordwood and other forest products 2 the rate at whichthis timber is growing O drain and mortality 1 acreage burned annually 5 area of forest land 6 cutting practices and 7 management trends The field work in District 6 was done in March April and May I9U5 This publication is a preliminary report and the data are subject to correction before they are published in a state report to be issued early in 1916 Only items 1 k and 5 above arc considered in this report The others naed considerable interpretation and additional study before re leasing and they too will form part of the state report The Georgia Department of Forestry through Director J M Tinker furnished help from the State and District Staff in the collection of field data The American Forestry Association through Director John B Woods and Regional Consultant Charles R Ross approved general plans for the project Coordination of the survey and report preparation were under the supervision of the authors Appreciation is expressed to the Agricultural Adjustment Administra tion the School of Forestry of the University of Georgia and to the Georgia Forestry Association for valuable assistance in the survey Special acknowledgement is due Charles M Everett District Forester of the Georgia Department of Forestry Robert X Boydell formerly of the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia and L W R Jack son of the Division of Forest Pathology Bureau of Plant Industry Soils and Agricultural Engineering TJ S Department of AgricultureEllin Arnall Governor nf Georgia AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OP GEORGIA Blanton Port son Chairman L Vaughan Howard Executive Director Name of Member Address Ivan Allen Atlanta T P Aoercrombie Atlanta Charles L Bowden Macon I H BanksGrantville Gason J Callaway Hamilton M D Collins Atlanta Ryburn 0 Clay Atlanta Mrs Prank 0 David Columbus Blanton Fortson tAthens Charles B GramlingAtlanta Robert K Groves Savannah Alfred W Tones Sea Island Tom Lirder p Atlanta Wiley L Moore o Atlanta falter R McDonald Atlanta Henry Mclntosh Albany W H McNaughtonCartersviJle J L Pilchere Meigs Ed Stevens f Dawsoa M King Tuckerffaynesboro Wilson Williams Atlanta COFT317TS Description of Georgia District 6 5 Baldwin County Data9 Bibb County Data10 Blockloy County Data11 Crawford Coxmty Data12 Glascock County Data13 Hancock County Datafl4 Jasper County Data15 Jefferson County Data16 Jhnson County Data 17 Jones County Data lg Laurens County Data19 Monroe County Data20 Putnam County Data21 Twiggs County Data 22 Washington County Data23 Wilkinso1 County Data2k Summary of District 6 Data f 25 Definitions26vSwtSJCK DESCRIPTION OF GEORGIA DISTRICT 6 This report covers Georgia District 6 which is the same area as District 6 of the Georgia Department of Forestry and Georgia Congressional District 6 It is located in central Georgia and includes portions of the upcr Coastal Plain and lower Piedmont separated by the Fall Line which crosses the District in Crawford Bibb Jones Baldwin and Hancock Counties The District embraces the following 16 counties Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Crawford Glascock Bancock Jasrier Jefferson Johnson Jones Laurcns Monroe Putnam Twiggs Washington Wilkinson 1 The total area of the District including water areas is 4070400 acres Of this total area 65 percent or 2655324 acres is in forest landf Johnson and Laurens Counties with 4g percent and 46 percent respectively of the total area in forest land are the only counties in the District with less than 50 percent of the total area in forests In Monroe and Putnam Counties 80 percent is classified as forest land Macon the principal town in the District has a population of around 60COO Other towns include Cochran Dublin Satonton Forsyth Gibson Gray Irwinton Jeffersonville ICncxville Louisville Milledgeville Monticello Sandcrsvillo Snarta and Wrightsvillc All parts of the District are accessible to motor vehicles through an excellent road system consisting of federal and state paved highways and state and county graded roads In addition the District is traversed by several railroads among which are the Central of Georgia the Georgia the Georgia and Florida and the Southern 1 Definitions and explanations oT forestry terms as used by the Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal are given on pages 26 and 27 5 mmmmm Principal rivers in the District arc the Ocone and the Ocmulgce which flow across the District in a north to south direction Both of these rlvera ere formerly important thoroughfares of transportation river boats and barges coming as far north as Dublin on the Oconee and to Macon on the Ocmulgeo River traffic has been light since the development of railroads and highways Practically all of the forest area of the District is covered by one of four forest types The most important of these from the standpoint of coverage is the loblollyshortleaf pine type with the predominating species loblolly pine although shortlcaf pine in considerable quantities also occurs throughout the District Second in importance is the pinehardwoods type dominated by one or more of the pines mentioned above mixed with hardwoods usually oaks and third the hardwoods type The longleafslash pine type predominates in the southern part of Johnson Laurens and Bleckley Counties Some longlcaf pine occurs on the sand ridges as far north as Hancock County and a small amount of cypress is found along the Oconee and Ocmulgce rivers and their tributaries in the southern part of the District Practically all of the forest area of the District is composed of secondgrowth stands Small scattered stands of oldgrowth timber occur occasionally in all types but in the aggregate they comprise only a small proportion of the total timber volume and an even smaller proportion of the forest area The dominant interest in forest use in District 6 has been lumber In recent years a considerable amount of pulpwood has been cut and with two pulp mills soon to bo erected at Macon will be increasingly in demand A market is also available for poles piles and handle stock In the southern part of Johnson and Laurens Counties an area predominated by slash and long leaf pine the production of naval stores is of considerable importance 6 HHBBHHHHmBB lJ 2 Around 100 operators are working approximately 30 crops in Johnson and in Laurens County some 50 operators work 75 crons The net volume of pine hardwood and cypress sawtimber in the District totals U2g6g25000 board feet Approximately 69 percent or 293U52000 board feet of this total volume is pine sawtimber The remaining 133371000 board feet arc hardwood and cypress sawtimber On the basis of total forest land acreage this represents an average of 1109 board feet of pine and 505 board feet of hardwood and cypress per acre Under present as well as under normal conditions and both from a physical and an economic standpoint almost the entire volume of sawtimber can be listed as accessible Most of the hardwood and cypress sawtimber is scattered and the volume ter aero is small Fet cordvood volume in the District not including sawtimber sizod trees and culls totals 13646300 cords Of this total 4524200 cords or approxi mately 33 percent are pine 6088700 cords or 45 percent are pulping hardwoods and 3033 400 cords or 22 percent are nonpulping hardwoods and cynress This is an average volume per acre for forest land of 17 cords of pine 23 cords of pulping hardwoods and 11 cords of nonpulping hard woods and cypress or a total of 51 cords per forest land acre of all species Of the 265532U acres of forest land in the District approximately 90 percent is rated as having good stocking 2 percent as having medium stock ing and 8 percent as having poor stocking Most of the area classified as poorly stocked has apparently been in such a condition for years and will not revert to timber unless it is planted More than 9 million pine seedlings have been planted on similar land in the District within the past 15 years About 9 percent of the forested area of the District or more than 235000 acres burned over in 1944 Most of this acreage was burned by wild fires which are a major threat to the forests as well as a deterrent to the 2 Volume and other pertinent data are given by counties in the fetter portion of this bulletin 2 Less than 01 percent is cynress 7 application of sound forest practices in the District Tw counties Bibb and 3aldwin have established countywide firs protection in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Forestry An airplane fire detection system has recently benn inaugurated to cover a part of the District by the Georgia Department of Forestry In the 16 counties in the District 2k percent or 964685 acres of all land listed on the lkk tax digest was owned in units of 1000 acres or more by 523 owners For individual counties there is considerable variation in the proportion held in the 1000 acre and larger ownership group The largest percentage is in Twiggs County where U5 owners hold 89900 acres or approximately 38 percent and the lowest is in Glascock County where 5 owners hold Gk00 acres or 7 percent of the total area These holdings do not necessarily indicate ownership of a contiguous tract of land but possibly a number of separate tracts located in the county Federal owned lands in the District include the Hitchiti Experimental Forest of approximately 5000 acres in Jones County under the jurisdiction of the United States Forest Service and the Piedmont Wildlife Area of 12000 acres in Jasper and Jones Counties administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of Interior The Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture owns 78000 acres in Jasper Jones and Putnam Counties The Ocmulgee National Monument consij ig 383 Bibb County is owned by the National Park Service he Georgia Experiment Station has the supervision of 15000 acres in Jasper County through a lease from the Soil Conservation S Department of Agriculture ervice United States 8 BALDWIN COUNTY Total area 169600 acres Forest area 116346 acres 69 percent Total net sawtimber volume 206513000 board feet Pine 119016000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 87497000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 730000 cords Pine 195100 cords Pulping hardwoods 318gOO cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 216100 cords Stocking Good llg56 acres Medium 1163 acres Poor 2327 acres Area burned 1944 4654 acres 9BIBB COIBTTY Total area l6560 acres Forest area 10865 acres 67 percent Total net sawtiniber voljme 127476000 board feet Pine 93395000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 34081000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 307100 cords Pine 118900 cords Pulping hardwoods 137700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 50500 cords Stocking rood 93108 acres Medium Poor 15157 acres Area burned 1944 6496 acres 10 mmmmmmmm BLECKLEY COUNTY Total area lUol60 acres Forost area 75686 acres 54 percent Total net saHimber volume 165225000 board feet Pine 136013000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 29212000 board feet Total net cordwood voltime 33500 cords Pine 145900 cords Pulping hardroods 100500 cords ITonpulping hardwoods and cypress 86100 cords Stocking Good 62063 acres Medrum 3027 acres Poor 10596 acres Area burned 1944 15137 acres 11mm hbbmhhHHi CRAWF0HD COUNTY Total area 201600 acres Forest area 12531 acres 71 percent Total net sawtimber volume 1495000 board feet Pine 134264000 board feet Hardwood 15151000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 413300 cords Pine 242300 cords Pulping hardwoods llUOOO cords Nonnulping hardwoods 57000 cords Stocking Good 116875 acres Mediijm Poor 25656 acres Area burned 1944 4276 acres 12 GLASCOCK COUNTY Total area 91520 acres Forest area 51q83 acres 57 percent Total net sawtimber volume 8502000 board feet Pine kk980000 board feet Hardwood and cynrcss 37522000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 267600 cords Pine 82800 cords Pulping hardwoods 114300 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 70500 cords Stocking Good 46785 acres Medium 2079 acres Poor 3119 acres Area burned I9UU k679 acres 13 i K HANCOCK COUNTY Total area 31000 acres Forest area 222B67 acres 72 percent Total net sawtimber volume 307082000 board feet Pine 169620000 board feet Hardwood 137U62000 board feet Total net cordwood volume l5900 cords Pine Ul3000 cords Pulping hardwoods 6lU000 cords ITonpulping hardwoods 37S900 cords Stocking Good 21172U acres Medium 6686 acres Poor 4U57 acres Area burned lUU 13372 acres lU JASPER COUNTY Total area 20000 acres Forest area 174720 acres 73 percent Total net sawtimber volume 203173000 board feet Pine i72U23OOO hoard feet Hardwood 30755000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 663900 cords Pine 3149400 cords Pulping hardwoodss 209700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 10Ug00 cords Stocking Good 15375U acres Medium 177 acres Poor 19219 acres Area burned I9UU 2620 acres 15 H nflum frfaHSHZJEFFERSON COUNTY Total area 340480 acres Forest area 186583 acres 55 percent Total net sawtimber volume 326715000 board feet Fine 224872000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 101843000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1058100 cords Pine 317200 cords Pulping hardwoods 373200 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 367700 cords Stockings Good 154864 acres Medium 9 39 acres Poor 22390 acres Area burned 1944 26122 acres 161 IHHHHHBBDJOHNSON COUMT Total area 200320 acres Forest area 95152 acres kg percent Total net sawtlntoer volumes 209900000 board feet Pine lk565000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 67335000 board feet Total net cordwood volurce 56200 cords Fine 192200 cords Pulping hardwoods 240700 cords Nonpalping hardwoods and cypress 113300 cords Stocking Good S9UU3 acres Medium 1903 acres Poor 3go6 acres Area burned lVkk 2U7l40 acres 17 KQaiiiSB35acfiiis JONES COUNTY Total area 257280 acres Forest area 2001b1 acres 78 oercent Total net sawtimber volume 298171000 board feet Pine 195961000 board feet Hardwood 102210000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1005600 cords Pine 280000 cords Pulping hardwoods 520300 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 205300 cords Stocking Good 184151 acres Medium 2002 acres Poor 14011 acres Areaburned 1944 6005 acres 18 LAUPMS COUNTY Total area 519040 acres Forest area 238239 acres 46 percent Total net sawtimber volume 520742000 board feet Pine 4q8439000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 82253000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 819400 cords Pine 470800 cords Pulping hardwoods 252700 cords ITonpulping hardwoods and cypress 95900 cords Stocking Good 197738 acres Medium 9530 acres Poor 30971 acres Area burned 1944 6l942 acres 19 SUMH fMOKROE COUJITY Total area 255360 acres Forest area 203777 acres 80 percent Total net sawtimber volume 20003000 board feet Pine 170052000 board feet Hardwood 29976000 board feet Total net cordvood volume 661800 cords Pine 3146000 cords Pulping hardwoods 23300 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 81500 cords Stocking Good 173210 acres Medium 2038 acres Poor 28529 acres Area burned igUU 076 acres 20tma sPUTNAM COUNTY Total area 224000 acres Forest area 179424 acres 20 percent Total net sawtimber volume 308717000 board feet Fine 202031000 board feet Hardrood 106686000 board feet Total net cordvood volume 1368600 cords Pine 376800 cords Pulping hardwoods 646900 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 34900 cords Stocking Good 166864 acres Medium 3 588 acres Poor 8972 acres Area burned 1944 7177 acres 21 TVIGGS COUNTY Total area 233600 acres Forest area 174499 acres 75 percent Total net sawtimbcr volume 294622000 board feet Fine 150767000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 143853000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1094800 cords Fine 261700 cords Pulping hardwoods 522900 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 250200 cords Stocking Good 155304 acres Medium Poor 19195 acres Area burned 1944 13960 acres 22 ttaf3SCSS WASHINGTON COUNTY Total area 431360 acres Forest area 259679 acres 60 percent Total net sawtiniber volume U60o69000 board feet Pine 285228000 board feet Hardwood and cypress i7UgUlOOO board feet Total net corwood volume lUl6200 cords Pine 371 UOO cords Pulping hardwoods 727100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 317700 cords Stocking Good 236308 acres Medium 7790 acres Poor 15531 acres Area burned I9UU 26355 acres 23 WILKIITSOU COUKTY Total area 293120 acres Forest area 225409 acres 77 percent Total net sawtimber volume 366464000 board feet Pine 203770000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 162694000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1555300 cords Pine 3o0700 cords Pulping hardwoods 901600 cords ITonpuloing hardwoods and cypress 293000 cords Stocking Good 209631 acres Medium 2254 acre Poor 13524 acres Area burned 1944 13524 acres 24 ftSSSSSSSUMMARY OF DISTRICT 6 Total area 4070400 acres Forest area 2655324 acres 65 percent Total net sawtimber volume 4286825000 board feet Pine 2943452000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 1343371000 board feet Total net cordvood volume 13646300 cords Pine 4524200 cords Fulping hardwoods 6082700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 3033400 cords Stocking Good 2364678 acres Medium 52836 acres Poor 237510 acres Area burned 1944 235135 acres 25 tWgsssasaH DEFINITIONS OF TSHMS USED Genoral Total area Entire acreage within the boundaries of the unit considered including water areas Total areas used cre obtained from the publication Areas of the United States lqUo I S Bureau of the Census I9U2 Forest area Acreage obtained from aerial photographs having a forest cover agricultural urban water roads rightofways and other nonforest areas omitted Forest land Land supporting a forest cover or which if cleared does not show evidence of being used for improved pasture agricultural urban or other nonforest use Net volume Volume from which cull sweep and mortality volumes have been deducted Board feet Board foot measure log scale by International inch rule Cord Standard cord k x k x 8 feet in dimensions Top diameter Minimum top diameters for pine and cypress 5 inches for hardwoods h inches all trees having large branches forked top excessive crook or other defect to an acceptable utilization top diameter clbh Diameter breast high hh feet above the average ground level Naval stores crops en thousand cups or faces Forest Types Loblollyshortleaf pine Forest stands in which over 75 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are loblolly andor shortleaf pine Longleafslash pineForest stands in which over 75 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are longleaf andor slash pine Finehardwoods Forest stands in which 50 to 75 percent inclusive of the dominant and codominant stems are pine and the remainder are hardwoods Hardwoods Forest stands in which more than 50 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are hardwoods Species Grouns Fines All pines regardless of species principally longleaf slash and loblolly Cypress Pondcypross and baldcypress Hardwoods All hardwood species Pulping hardwoods 3ay magnolia yellow poplar red maple all species of gums and other softtextured species Nonpulping hard woodsFirm textured species such as ash hickory elm persimmon birch beech holly and all oaks except blackjack and bluejack which ere considered as cull and are not included in the cordood volume data Forest Condition Classes 01dgroth Forest stands having the characteristics of mature original forests Secondgrowth Forest stands which have replaced the original forests Siz Classes Sa timber a Pine trees nine inches dbh and larger which are 26 50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log b Cupress same qualifications as pine c Hardwood trees 13 inches dbh and larger which are 50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log Cord woodAny tree between k inches and the minimum sawlog dbh at least 75 eerccnt sound and having a reasonably straight stem with the exception of scrub oaks such as blackjack and bluejack oaks and all other species which because of fork crook extreme limbiness or other sound defect will never become suitable for sawtimber ReproductionAll trees smaller than 5 inches dbh Density Number Tress Required Sawtimber r00d Medium Poor 10 12 trees lU 16 trees lg7 15 6 3 5lU 35 2 k or less 2 or less 1 or less Plot Size f acre acre acre Cordwood JL 1 or less 110 acre Reproduction 10 31 4 or less 1U0 acre Scrub oak and associated minor species excluded All stands coming under the good or medium classification of the above table were classified as having good stocking The remaining sawtimber and cordwood stands ie those coming under the poor classification of the above table but having 59 trees of reproduction size on lUo acre wore classified as having medium stocking Those sawtimber cordwood and repro duction stands coming under the poor classification of the above table but having k or less trees of reproduction size on l4o acre were classified as having poor stocking 27aKcrmFORESTRY BULLETIN NO 6 JANUARY 1946 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 10 GENERAL U L2 1946 THE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF GEORGIA IN COOPERATION WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATIONH Forestry Bulletin No 6 January I9U6 FOREST TACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 10 y B F Grant and A S Patterson The Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia in cooperation with The Georgia Department of Forestry The American Forestry Associationzmmmmsm FOREWORD The Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal was initiated in July Ijkk under a cooperative agreement between the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia the Georgia Department of Forestry and the American Forestry Association The purpose of the survey is to determine on a county basis l the volume of sawtimber cordwood and other forest products the rate at which this timber is growing 3 drain and mortality U acreage burned annually 5 area of forest land 6 cutting practices and 7 management trends The field work in District 10 was done in May June and July I9U5 This publication is a preliminary report and the data are subject to correction before they are published in a state report to be issued early in 196 Only items 1 4 and 5 above are considered in this report The others need considerable interpretation and additional study before releasing and they too will form part of the state report The Georgia Department of Forestry through Director J M Tinker furnished help from the State and District Staff in the collection of field data The American Forestry Association through Director John B Toods and Regional Consultant Charles R Ross annroved general plans for the troject Coordination of the survey and report preparation were under the supervision of the authors Appreciation is expressed to the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis tration the School of Forestry of the University of Georgia and to the Georgia Forestry Association for valuable assistance in the survey Special acknowledgement is due William R Johnson District Forester and Gordon Bryan District Marketing Aide of the Georgia Department of Forestry Robert K Boydell formerly of the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia and L R Jackson of the Division of Forest Pathology Bureau of Plant Industry Soils and Agricultural Engineering U S Department of AgricultureI SiaxioaEllin Arnall Governor ff Georgia AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF GEORGIA t Blanton Fortson Chairman L Vaughan Howard Executive Director Name of Member Address Ivan Allen Atlanta T F AoorcrombieAtlanta Charles L BowdenMacon W N BanksGrantville Cason J CallawayHamilton M D CollinsAtlanta Ryburn G ClayAtlanta Mrs Frank C DavidColumbus Blanton Fortson Athens Charles B Gramling Atlanta Robert W GrovesSavannah Alfred W JonesSaa Island Tom Linder Atlanta Wiley I MooreAtlanta Walter E McDonaldf Atlanta Henry kclntoshAlbany W H McNaughton Cartersville J L FilcherMeigs Ed Stevens Dawson M King TuckerWaynesboro Wilson Williams AtlantaCOOTSUTS Description of Georgia District 10 5 Clarke County Data j 9 Columbia County Data10 Elbert County Data11 Franklin County Data 12 V Greenc County Data17 Hart County Data Lincoln County Data 15 McDuffie County Data16 Madison County Data17 Morgan County Datalg Oconee County Data 19 Oglcthorpe County Data20 Richmond County Data 21 Taliaferro County Data22 Walton County Data23 tarren County Data2k Hikes County Dataf25 Summary of Georgia District 10 Data26 Definitions27I DESCRIPTION OF GEORGIA DISTRICT 10 Georgia District 10 the area covered in this report is identical to District 10 of the Georgia Department of Forestry and Georgia Congressional District 10 It is located in the eastern part of upper central Georgia and includes a small portion of the unner Coastal Plain and the Piedmont separated by the Fall Line in barren McDuffie Columbia and Richmond Counties The 17 counties included in the District are Clarke Columbia Elbert Franklin Greene Hart Lincoln McDuffie Madison Morgan Oconee Oglethoroe Richmond Taliaferro Walton Warren Wilkes The total area of the District including water areas is 3271680 acres Sixtyfour percent of this total area or 2094185 acres is in forest land This varies from kl percent in Hart County to 80 percent in Greene County and from 45120 acres in Clarke County to 208737 acres in Wilkes County Augusta the largest town in the District has a population of around 70000 Other towns in the District are Athens Greensboro Appling Elbcrton Carnosville Hartwell Lincolnton Thomson Danielsville Madison Watkinsville Lexington Crawfordville Monroe Warrenton and Washington All parts of the District are accessible to motor vehicles through an excellent road system consisting of federal and state paved highways and state and county graded roads In addition the District is traversed by several railroads among which are the Central of Georgia the Georgia the Georgia and Florida the Seaboard Air Line and the Southern 1 Definitions and explanations of forestry terms as used by the Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal are given on pags 27 and 28The principal rivers in the District are the Savannah which borders the District on the cast and the Oconee which flows across the District in a north to south direction Practically all of the forest area of the District is covered by one of three forest types The loblollyshortleaf pine type dominated by loblolly andor shortleaf pine the pinehardwoods type with one or both of the above pines mixed with hardwood and the hardwoods type where hardwoods such as oak poplar and gum predominate Secondgrowth stands of timber cover most of the forest area of the District Small scattered stands of oldgrowth timber occur occasionally in all types but in the aggregate they comprise only a small proportion of the total timber volume and ari even smaller proportion of the forest area The dominant interest in forest use in District 10 has been lumber with poles Tilling cross ties and fuel wood secondary in importance In recent years a considerable amount of pulpwood has been cut The net volume of pine and hardwood sawtimber in the District totals 2928076000 board feet Approximately 65 percent or 1gg6070000 board feet of this total volume is nine sawtimber The remaining 1032006000 board feet 2 are hardwood and cypress sawtimber On the basis of total forest land acreage this represents an average of 905 board feet of pine and U93 board feet of hard wood per acre or a total of 139 board feet per forest land acre of all species Under present as well as under normal conditions and from both a physical and an economic standpoint almost the entire volume of sawtimber can be listed as accessible Most of the hardwood sawtimber is scattered and the volume per acre is small Net cordwood volume in the District not including sawtimber sized trees and culls totals 7778900 cords Of this total 4230400 cords or 5U percent 2 A small amount of cypress occurs in Richmond County 6 arc pine 2176700 cords or 28 percent are pulping hardwoods and 1371800 cords or 18 nercent are nonpulping hardwoods This is an average volume per acre for forest land of 20 cords of pine 10 cords of pulping hardwoods and 07 cords of nonpulping hardwoods or a total of 37 cords per forest land acre of all species Of the 2091185 acres of forest land in the District 8U percent is rated as having good stocking 5 percent as having medium stocking and 11 per cent as having poor stocking Most of the area classified as poorly stocked has apparently heen in such a condition for years and will not revert to merchantable timber unless it is planted More than 7 million pine seedlings have been planted in the District within the past 15 years About 3 percent of the forest area of the District or around 70000 acres burned over in lokk Most of this acreage was burned by wild fires which are a major threat to the forest as well as a deterrent to the application of sound forest practices in the District Only one county Wilkes has established countywide fire protection in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Forestry In the 17 counties in the District approximately 17 percent or 56900 acres of all land listed on the 19 UU tax digest was owned in units of 1000 acres or more by 28b owners For individual counties there is consider able variation in the proportion held in the 1000 acre and larger ownership group The largest percentage is in Columbia County where 30 owners hold 6000 acres or 31 percent and in Wilkes County where 40 owners hold 91600 acres or 30 percent The lowest percentage is in Clarke County where 2 owners hold 2000 acres or 25 percent and in Franklin County with 3 individuals owning 5300 acres or 3 percent of the total acreage These do not necessarily 3 A small amount of cedar and cypress are included 7 u o indicate ownership of a contiguous tract of land but possibly a number of separate tracts located in the county Publicly owned land in District 10 includes the Gwinn Nixon State Forest of lOOf acres in Richmond County owned by the Georgia Department of Forestry the Alexander H Stephens State Memorial Park of 263 acres in Taliaferro County owned oy the State Department of Parks the Whitehall and OconeeDenmark Forests in Clarke County of 78 and 265 acres respectively and the Watson Springs Forest of 53g acres in Green County owned by the School of Forestry University of Georgia the Walton County Hatchery of 25 acres in Walton County owned oy the Georgia Department of Wildlife Camp Gordon in Richmond Columbia and McDuffie Counties is owned by the War Department and the National Park Service owns the Alexander Stephens Recreational Demonstra tion Area consisting of 9I0 acres in Taliaferro County and the Hard Labor Creek Demonstration Area of approximately 6000 acres in Walton and Morgan Counties The Soil Conservation Service owns around 28000 acres in Green Oglethorpe and Morgan CountiesCLAPXE COUNTY Total area 20000 acres Forest area 45120 acres 56 percent Total net sawtimber volume 36006000 board feet Pine lU365000 board feet Hardwood 21641000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 166100 cords Pine 110100 cords Puluing hardwoods 48000 cords Tonpulning hardwoods 8000 cords Stocking Good 3925 acres Medium 3158 acres Poor 2708 acres Area burned 1944 902 acres 9L I COLUMBIA COUNTY Total area 197120 acres Forest area 1763 acres 75 percent Total net sawtimber volume 179190000 board feet Pine 82619000 board feet Hardwood 96571000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 565200 cords Fine 207UOO cords Pulping hardwoods 287700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 70100 cords Stocking Good 121067 acres Medium 8859 acres Poor 17717 acres Area burned 19M 7382 acres 10 ELBERT COUNTY Total area 233600 acres Forest area 155578 acres 67 nercent Total net sawtimber volume 220577000 board feet Pine 112800000 board feet Hardwood 101777000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 358200 cords Fine 206600 cords Palping hardwoods 88700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 72900 cords Stocking Good 127574 acres Medium 4667 acres Poor 23337 acres Area burned 1944 4667 acres 11PRAMU1T COUFTY Total area 172160 acres Forest area 85736 acres 50 percent Total net sawtimber volume l4g236000 board feet Pine 97706000 board feet Hardwood 50530000 board feet Total not cordwood volume 121300 cords Pine 77200 cords Pulping hardwoods 34000 cords Fonpulping hardwoods 10100 cords Stocking Good 67731 acres Medium 2572 acres Poor 1533 acres Area burned I9UU 2572 acres 12 SS93ftajJRteNE CCTTTY Total area 258560 acres Forest area 20684g acres 80 percent Total net sawtimber volume 25565000 board feet Pine 222557000 board feet Hardwood 3200g000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 469700 cords Pinr 370800 cords Pulping hardwoods 57900 cords Uoiwpulping hardwoods UlOOO cords Stocking Good 169615 acres Medium 124ll acres Poor Area burned 1944 24822 acr 6205 es acres 13 HART COUNTY Total area 165120 acres Forest area 683oO acres kl percent Total net sawtimber volume 106737000 board feet Pine 55137000 board feet Hardwood 51600000 board feet Total net cordrood volume 138900 cords Pine 73900 cords Pulping hardwoods 38100 cords Tonpulping hardwoods 26900 cords Stocking Good 55372 acres Medium 2051 acres Poor 10937 acres Area burned I9UU 2051 acres Ik LINCOLN COUNTY Total area 163200 acres Forest area US973 acres 73 percent Total net sawtimber volume 165812000 board feet Pine 90398000 board feet Hardwood 75UlU000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 59800 cords Pine 300100 cords Pulning hardwoods 179700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 70000 cords Stocking Good 97552 acres Medium 8328 acres Poor 13087 acres Area burned I9HU 3569 acres 15 mm I Ji3tfsb2iSK5ss McDUFPIE COUNTY Total area 168320 acres Forest area 1104l2 acres 66 percent Total net sawtimber volume l48425000 board feet Pine 82891000 board feet Hardwood 6553UOOO board feet Total net cordwood volume 514500 cords Pint 272900 cords Pulping hardwoods Nonpulping hardwo ods 173600 cords 68000 cords Stocking Good Medium Poor 9053 acres 7729 acres 12146 acres Area burned 1944 2208 acres 16 HHHHTotal area MADISON COTOTTY 1792UO acres Forest area 92977 acres 52 percent Total net sawtimber volume 130397000 board feet Pine 80745000 board feet Hardwood 49652000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 227400 cords Pine 115700 cords Pulping hardwoods 54900 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 26800 cords Stocking Good 77171 acre Medium 3719 acres Poor 12087 acres Area burned 1944 4 64 acres 17 MOHGAF COUNTY Total area 227g4o acres Forest area 149007 acres 65 uorcent Total net sawtlmiber volume 173330000 board feet Pine lUg291000 board feet Hardwood 30039000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 37500 cords Pine 243700 cords Puloing hardwoods 700 Nonpulping hardwoods 66100 cords Stocking Good Medium Poor 129636 acres 5960 acres 134ll acres Area burned 1944 4470 acres lg 2iXiK3 OCOFEE COTOTTY Total area 119040 acres Forest area 65115 acres 55 percent Total net sawtimber volume 127672000 board fe6t Pine 91937000 board feet Hardrood 35735000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 203500 cords Pine 9S400 cords Pulping hardwoods 58600 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 46500 cords Stocking Good 58603 acres Medium 2605 acres Poor 3907 acres Area burned 1944 1302 acres 19 OGLETHORPE COUNTY Total area 278100 acres Forest area 137085 acres 67 percent Total net sawtimber volume 220366000 board feet Pine 156733000 board feet Hardood 63513000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 707700 cords Pine 501800 cords Pulping hardwoods 13800 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 62100 cords Stocking Good 155280 acres Medium 13096 acres Poor 18709 acres Area burned 19UU 3742 acres 20 i RICHMOND COUNTY Total area 208610 acres Forest area 137 acres 66 percent Total net sawtimber volume 118101000 board feet Pine 7936000 board fet Hardwood and cypress 73115000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 384300 cords Pin 201600 cords Pulping hardwoods lU600 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 168100 cords Stocking Good II2JU5 acres Medium 8250 acres Poor 16199 acres Area burned I9UU 12375 acres 21 mmmm TALIAPEHRO COUNTY Total area 124800 acres Forest area 9598 acres 76 percent Total net sawtimber volume 138336000 board feet Pine 9323000 board feet Hardwood 44013000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 603300 cords Pine 225500 cords Paining hardwoods 221400 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 156400 cords Stocking Good Medium Poor 80408 acres 5676 acres 85l4 acres Area burned 1944 6622 acres 22 WALTON COUHTY Total area 211200 acres Forest area 107078 acres 51 percent Total net sawtimber volume 231400000 board feet Pine 182884000 board feet Hardwood 48516000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 382400 cords Pine l4o00 cords Pulping hardwoods 125200 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 116300 cords Stocking Good 9744l acres Medium 3212 acres Poor 6425 acres Area burned 1944 1071 acres 23 TARRSF COTTMT Total area 181760 acres Forest area 113Ulg acres 62 percent Total net sawtimber volume 192926000 board feet Pine 10483000 board feet Hardwood 88094000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 886400 cords Pine 319100 cords Pulping hardwoods 332100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 235200 cords Stocking Good 99808 acres Medium 6805 acres Poor 6805 cres Area burned lqUU 3102 acres 2kwTILKES COUNTY Total area 302080 acres Forest area 208737 acres 69 Toercent Total not sawtimbor volume 301060000 board feet Pine 196811000 board feet Hardwood 104219000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1115700 cords Pine 729700 cords Pulping hardwoods 258700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 127300 cordc Stocking Good 171164 acres Medium 16699 acres Poor 20S4 acres Area burned 1944 2087 acres 5 SBfliB m B H B B B o 1 IB B I SUMMARY 0 DISTRICT 10 Total area 3271680 acres Forest area 2094185 acres 64 percent Total net sawtimber volume 2928076000 board feet Pine 1896070000 board feet Hardwood and cypress 1032006000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 7778900 cords Pine 4230400 cords Pulping hardwoods 2176700 cords Fonpulping hardwoods and cypress 1371800 cords Stocking Good 1750970 acres Medium 115797 acres Poor 227418 acres Area burned 1944 69276 acres 26HHH DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED General fotal area Entire acreage within the boundaries of the unit considered including water areas Total areas used were obtained from the publication Areas of the United States 19I40 U S Bureau of the Census lolj2 Forest area Acreage obtained from aerial photographs having a forest cover agricultural urban water roads rightofways and other nonforest areas omitted Forest land Land supporting a forest cover or which if cleared does not show evidence of being used far improved pasture agricultural urban or other nonforest use Net volume Volume from which cull sweep and mortality volumes have been deducted poard feet Board foot measure log scale by International iinch rule Cord Standard cord k x k x 8 feet in dimensions Top diameter Minimum top diameters for pine and cypress inches SnnJ tt8 VneS aU treeS having larSe Ranches forked top excessive crook or other defect to an acceptable utilization top diameter dbjt Diameter breast high lg feet above the average ground level Forest Types Loblllyshortleaf pine Forest stands in which over 75 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are loblolly andor shortleaf pine Pinehardwoods Forest stands in which 50 to 75 percent inclusive of tne dominant and codominant stems are pine and the remainder are hardwoods H Jt iS 7 reSt StandS in Which more than 50 Percent of the dominant and codominant stems are hardwoods Species Groups and loby regardleSS f Species Principally longleaf slash Cypress Pondcypress and baldcypress Hardwoods All hardwood species Pulping hardwoods Bay magnolia yellow poplar red maple all species of gums and other softtextured species species Nonpulping hardwoods Firm textured species such as ash hickorv elm persimmon birch beech holly and all oaks except blackjack and bluejack which were considered as cull and are not included in the cordwood volume data Forest Condition Classes forestsdrOWth YTeSt StaMS haVlnS thG characteristics of mature original Secondgrowth Forest stands which have replaced the original forests Size Classes Sawtimber a Pine trees nine inches dbh and larger which are 27 mmmmu H 1 50 percent sound and vail produce one 12 foot log b Cypress same qualifications as pine c Hardwood trees 13 inches dbhand larger which are 50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log Cordwood Any tree betwden 49 inches and the minimum sawlog dbh at least 75 percent sound and having a reasonably straight stem with the exception of scrub oaks such as blackjack and bluejack oaks and all other species which because of fork crook extreme limbinoss or other sound defects will never become suitable for sawtimbcr Penroduction All trees smaller than 5 inches dbh Density Number Trees Required Sawtimber Good Medium Poor Plot Size 10 12 trees 15 514 4 or less lkn 16 trees 6 35 2 or less 12 V M 2 1 or less Cordwood Reproduction 3L 10 33 1 or less 4 or less g acre acre t acre 140 acre 140 acre Scrub oak and associated minor species excluded All stands coming under the good or medium classification of the above table were classified as having good stocking The remaining sawtimber and cordwood stands ie those coming under the poor classification of the above table but having 59 trees of reproduction size on l40 acre were classified as having medium stocking Those sawtimber cordwood and repro duction stands coming under the poor classification of the above table but having 4 or less trees of reproduction size on l40 acre were classified as having poor stocking 28 JFORESTRY BULLETIN NO 7 FEBRUARY 1946 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 4 GENERAL LIBRARY APR 12 1946 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGiA THE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF GEORGIA IN COOPERATION WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATIONForestry Bulletin No 7 February 1946 F0R3ST PACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT k by B F Grant and A S Patterson The Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia in cooperation with The Georgia Department of Forestry The American Forestry Association viMir FORERD The Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal was initiated in July lykk under a cooperative agreement between the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia the Georgia Department of Forestrv and the American Forestry Association The purpose of the survey is to determine on a county basis 1 the volume of sawtimber cordwood and other forest products 2 the rate at which this timber is growing 3 drain and mortality 1 acreage burned annually 5 area of forest land 6 cutting practices and 7 management trends 195 The field work in District 4 was done In July August and September This publicationis a preliminary report and the data are subject to ohPCt0n bcfore thef are Published in a state report to be issued early in 194b Only items 1 4 and 5 above arc considered in this reuort The others need considerable interpretation and additional study before releasing and they too will form Tart of the state report The Georgia Department of Forestry through Director J M Tinker furnished help from the State and District Staff in the collection of field data The American Forestry Association through Director John B Toods and Regional Consultant Charles R Ross amoved general plans for the proct and assisted in the collection of field data Coordination of the survey and report preparation were under the supervision of the authors APoreCiatin is e3roressed to the Agricultural Adjustment Administra tion the Scnool of Forestry of the University of Georgia and to the Georgia forestry Association for valuable assistance in the survey Special acknowledgement is due William V Waters District Forester of the Georgia Department of Forestry Robert X Boydell formerly of the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia and L T R Jackson of the Division of Forest Pathology Bureau of Plant Industry Soils and Agricultural Engineering T7 S Department of Agriculture IHhBBHH 1 i JONTENTS Description of Georgia District k 5 Butts County Data n Carroll County Datal0 Clayton County Data q Coweta County Data 12 Fayette County Dataf j Heard County Data Henry County Data 15 Lamar County Data r Meriwether County Data n7 Newton County Data Pike County Data 10 Sualding County Data 20 Talbot County Data21 Troup County Data 22 Up son County Data 2 Summary of District k Data 2h Definitions oc 25 1 Ellis Arnall Governor of Georgia AGRICULTURAL ATTD INDUSTRIAL DEVSLOFMOTT BOARD OF GEORGIA Slanton Fort son Chairman L Vaughan Howard Executive Director Name of Member Address Ivan Allen Atlanta T 7 Aborcrombie Atlanta Charles L Powdcn Macon J T anksGrantvillc vason J Callaway Hamilton M D CollinsAtlanta Jrtwrj G ClayAtlanta Mrs Frank C DavidColumbus Blanton FortsonAthens Charles B Gramling Atlanta Robert W Groves c v Savannah Alfred W Jones Tt m T j0a island Tom Linaer Wiley L Moore alter H McDonald Henry MclntoshAlba f McNaughton Cartersville J L Pilcher id btevens n T Dawson M King Tucker Taynesooro Wilson Williams ai 4 AtlantaQMHBHBMHHI DESCRIPTION 0 GEORGIA DISTRICT 4 This report covers Georgia District k which is the same area as District k of the Georgia Department of Forestry and Georgia Congressional District k It is located in the western part of upper central Georgia and except for a small part of Talbot County is entirely in the Piedmont Plateau The 15 counties in the District are Butts Carroll Clayton Coweta Fayette Heard Henry Newton Talbot Lamar Pike Troup Meriwether Soalding Upson The total area of the District including water areas is 2983680 acres Of this total area 63 percent or lggUUS2 acres is in forest land7 This varies from 50 percent in Henry County to 8k percent in Talbot County and from 5653 acres in Clayton County to 210555 acres in Troup County Among the principal towns of the District are LaGrange Hewnan Thomas ton Griffin Jackson HcDonough Jonesboro Fayetteville Barnesvilie Talbotton Greenville Franklin Carrollton Covington and Zebulon All narts of the District are accessible to motor vehicles through an excellent road system consisting of federal and state paved highways and state and county graded roads Inaddition the District is traversed by several rail roads among which are the Atlanta and Vest Point the Atlanta Birmingham and Coast the Central of Georgia and the Southern Principal rivers in the District are the Chattahoochee which forms the western boundary in the south end of the District and then cuts across in a north to south direction the Flint which flows across the District and the Ocmulgee which touches the District on the east 1 Definitions and explanations of forestry terms as used by the Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal are given on pages 25 and 26 n 5 MHHIHHHflBHnHH Practically all of the forest area of the District is covered by one 2 of throe forest types Principal among these from the standpoint of coverage is the loblollyshortleaf pine type dominated by loblolly andor shortleaf pine the pinehardwoods type where one or both of the above pines are mixed with hardwoods and the hardwoods type where hardwoods such as oaks hickories poplar and gum predominate Most of the forest area of the District is composed of secondgrowth stands of timber Small scattered stands of oldgrowth timber occur occasionally in all types but in the aggregate they comprise only a small proportion of the total timber volume and an even smaller proportion of the forest area The production of ltniber has been the principal interest in forest use in District 4 with poles piles crossties and fuelwood secondary in importance In recent years a considerable amount of rulpwood has been cut and indications are for a greater demand for this product in the future The net volume of pine and hardwood sawtimber in District 4 totals 2783316000 board feet Approximately 71 nercent or 1984075000 board feet of this total volume is pine sawtimber The remaining 799241000 board feet are hardwood sawtimber On the basis of total forest land acreage this represents an average of 1053 board feet of pine and 424 board feet of hard wood per acre or a total of 1477 board feet per forest land acre of all species Under present as well as under normal conditions and from both a physical and an economic standpoint almost the entire volume of sawtimber can be listed as accessible Net cordwood volume in the District not including sawtimber sized trees and culls totals 4868700 cords Of this total 2618100 cords or 54 percent are pine 1426900 cords or 29 percent are pulping hardwoods 2 Longleaf pine is found in small tracts in the southern and western parts of the District 6 B H i H K B H and 823700 cords or 17 percent are nonpulping hardwoods Thin is an average volume per acre for forest land of 14 cords of pine 08 cords of pulping hardwoods and 04 cords of nonpulping hardwoods or a total of 26 cords oer forest land acre of all species Of the 1384482 acres of forest land in the District approximately 77 percent is rated as having good stocking 5 percent as having medium stocking and 18 percent as having poor stocking Most of the area classified as poorly stocked has apparently been in such a condition for years and will not revert to merchantable timber unless it is planted More than 8 million pine seedlings have ben planted in the District within the past 15 years About 6 percent of the forest area of the District or more than 110000 acres burned over in ig44 Most of this acreage was burned by wild fires which are a major threat to the forests as well as a deterrent to the application of sound forest practices in the District Only two counties Coweta and Upson have established countywide fire protection in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Forestry In the 15 counties in District 4 approximately 13 percent or 398100 acres of all land listed on the ig44 tax digest was owned in units of 1000 acres or more by 234 owners For individual counties there is considerable variation in the proportion held in the 1000 acre and larger ownership group The largest percentage is in Upson County where 26 owners hold 26 percent and in Talbot County where 33 owners hold 24 percent The lowest is in Carroll and Clayton Counties where g and 4 owners respectively hold 5 percent and in Spalding County where 6 owners hold 6 percent On an acreage basis it varies from 5200 in Clayton to 59700 in Talbot County These holdings do not necessarily indicate ownership of a contiguous tract of land but possibly a number of separate tracts located in the county 2 A small amount of cedar is included 7 ix jj ri ftf i I Publicly owned lands in District k include the Pino Mountain State Park of 1721 acrss part of which is in Meriwether County and the Indian Sorings State Park of 153 acres in Butts County These tracts are owned hy the Georgia State Department of Parks The city of Newnan oms a water shed area of 900 acres the city of Barnesville owns around 300 acres and the city of Manchester owns approximately 925 acres The Boy Scouts have title to 1700 acres in Upson County and about 600 acres in Clayton County g IHBBOB BUTTS COUNTY Total area 120320 acres Forest area 73395 acres 6l percent Total net sawtimber volume 12OS29O0O board feet Fine 86U6gCr0 board feet Hardwood 3361000 board feet Total net cordwood volume liq400 cords Pine 81100 cords Pulping hardwoods 19500 cords ITonpulping hardwoods 18800 cords Stocking Good 6U58S acres Medtumj 2202 acres Poor 6605 acres Area burned 19U4 7340 acres 9 aCAFFOH COUETY Total area 316800 acres Forest arc 172656 acres 55 percent Total net sawtimber volume l7454000 board feet Fine 118195000 board feet Hardwood 1929000 hoard feet motal net cordwood volume 378000 cords Fine 130700 cords Fulping hardwoods 65300 cords Nonwulnina hardwoods 182000 cord Stocking Good 151937 acre Medium 10359 acres 3OG 10360 acres Area burned 1944 907 acre I n 10 CLAYTON COUNTY Total area 95360 acres Forest area 56453 acres 59 percent Total net sawUmber volume 69963000 board feet Pine 50580000 board feet Hardwood IP 383 000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 94600 cords Pine 56000 cords Pulping hardwoods 15000 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 23600 cords Stocking Good 49679 acres Medium 564 acres Poor 6210 acres Area burned 1944 2823 acres 11 GOWETA CCHTY Total area 283520 acres Forest area 18797 acres 66 percent Total net sawtimber volume 23968000 board feet Pine 20U036000 board feet Hardwood 30932000 board feet Total net cordwood Volume U75i00 cords Finn 248200 cords Pulping hardwoods 124800 cords onpuling hardwoods 102800 cords Stocking Good 90227 acres Medium U5HU acres Poor 52633 acres Area burned I9UU 9392 acres 12FAYSTTS qoitntty Total area lf 360 acres Forest area 72595 acres 57 percent Total net aawtimber volume 11567000 board feet Pine 99031000 board feet Hardwood lb6l6000 board feet Total net cordTOOd volume 151000 cords Pine 72300 cords Pulping hardroods UU200 cords Tonpulping hardwoods 3500 cords Stocking Good 638SU acres Medium Poor 2711 acres Area burned I9UU 5082 acres 13 HSABD C0U1TTT Total area 193280 acres Forest area 13330 acres 70 percent Total net sawtimber volume 16565000 board feet Pine 101206000 board feet Hardwood 6k259000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 39500 cords Pine 228100 cords Pulping hardwoods 85100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 7300 cords Stocking Good 106121 acres Medium 6716 acres Poor 21193 acres Area burned lkk 6718 acres lkr H5NHY COUNTY Total area 211gHo acres Porest area 1063 acres 50 Tercent Total net sawtimber volume 201905000 board feet Pine 111275000 board feet Hardwood 90630000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 10000 cords Fine 89500 cords Pulping hardwoods 13900 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 36600 cords Stocking Good 92519 acres Medium 2127 acres Poor 11692 acres Area burned I9UU h2h acres 15 LAMAR COUMTY Total area 115840 acres Forest area 67419 acres 58 percent Total net sawtimber volume 114010000 board feet Fine 67021000 board feet Hardwood 46989000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 148700 cords Pine 70000 cords Pulping hardwoods 51300 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 27400 cords Stocking Good 60003 acres Medium 4719 acres Poor 2697 acres Area burned 1944 8091 acres 16 h MSRIETirR C0U1ITY Total arear 319360 acres Forest area 18715 acres 59 percent Total net sawtimber volume 285767000 board foet Pine 197759000 board feet Hardwood 88008000 board feet Total net cordood volume 85500 cords Pine 307600 cords Pulping hardwoods 139500 cords lionpulping hardwoods 3800 cords Stocking dood 15973 acrs Medium 5614 acres Poor 35553 acres Area burned 19 15000acrcs f1 17 NEWTON COUNTY Total area 174720 acres Forest area 98892 acres 57 percent Total net sawtimber volume 189868000 board feet Pine 144382000 board feet Hardwood 45486000 board feet Total net cordrood volume 221300 cords Pine 113400 cords Pulping hardwoods 55700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 52200 cords Stocking Good 880l4 acres Medium 1978 acres Poor 8900 acres Area burned 1944 1989 acres IS PIKE COUNTY Total area 17200 acres Forest area 71626 acres ky percent Total net sawtimber volume 89024000 board feet Pin 69151000 board feet Hardwood 1973000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 117100 cords Pine 58600 cords Pulping hardwoods 45500 cords Tonpulping hardwoods 13000 cords Stocking Good 61650 acres Medium Poor 10036 acres Area burned 1944 5000 acres 19MHBBI spaldiw county Total area 1286Uo acres Forest area 72810 acres 57 percent Total net sawtimber volume 87955 00 board feet Pine 65lUUOOO board feet Hardood 22811000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 120800 cords Pine 65100 cords Pulping hardwoods 50600 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 5100 cords Stocking Good 633U5 acres Medium 728 acres Poor 8737 acres Area burned I9UU 2912 acres 20 TALBOT COUNTY Total area 2U960O acres Forest area 20S915 acres Zk percent Total net sawtimber volume 352562000 board feet Pine 239296000 board feet Hardwood 113266000 board feet Total net cordvood volume 1017600 cords Pine U50300 cords Pulping hardwoods 32800 cords Fonpulping hrdwoods 13500 cords Stocking Good 1U62U1 acres Medium 6267 acres Poor 56U07 acres Area burned I9UU 16712 acres 21 Mann TPOUP COUNTY Total area 286080 acres Forest area 210555 acres fk percent Total net savtimber volume 395976000 board feet Pine 22507000 board feet Tardwood 1539000 board feet Total net cordwood volume JlPG00 cords Pine 9000 cords Pulping hardwoods 163600 cords Nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 60000 cords Stocking 3ood 153 705 acres Medium 822 acres Poor UgU28 acres Area burned 1Q4U 10528 acres 22 UPSOK COUNTY Total area 213760 acres Forest area 163313 acres 76 percent Total net sawtimber volume 221923000 board feet Pine 188024000 board feet Hardwood 33899000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 296800 cords Pine 158200 cords Pulping hardwoods 120100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 18500 cords Stocking Good 120852 acres Medium 4899 acres Poor 37562 acres Area burned I9UU 8165 acres 23 ffiJacsB i I SUMMARY OF DISTRICT 4 Total area 2933680 acres Forest area 1884482 acres 63 percent Total net sawtimber volume 2783316000 board feet Pine 1984075000 board feet Hardwood 799241000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 4468700 cords Pine 2618100 cords Pulping hardwoods 1426900 cords ITonpulping hardwoods 823700 cords Stocking Good 1458738 acres Medium 99709 acres Poor 326035 acres Area burned 1944 110919 acre 24 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED General Total area Entire acreage within the boundaries of the unit considered including water areas Total areas used were obtained from the publication Areas of the United States 19U0 U S Bureau of the Census 1912 Forest area Acreage obtained from aerial photographs having a forest cover agricultural urban water roads rightof ways and other nonforest areas omitted Forest land Land supporting a forest cover or which if cleared does not show evidence of being used for improved pasture agricultural urban or other nonforest use Ffrt volume Volume from which cull sweep and mortality volumes have been deducted Board feet Board foot measure log scale by International Jvinch rule Cord Standard cord k x k x 8 feet in dimensions Top diameterMinimum top diameters for mne and cypress fji inches for hardwoods 8 inches all trees having large branches forked top excessive crook or other defect to an acceptable utilization top diameters dbh Diameter breast high kh feet above the average ground level Naval stores crops Ten thousand cups or faces Forest Types Loblollyshortleaf pine Forest stands in which over 75 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are loblolly andor shortleaf pine Pinehardwoods Forest stands in which 50 to 75 percent inclusive of the dominant and codominant stems are pine and the remainder are hardwoods Hardwoods Forest stands in which more than 50 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are hardwoods Species Groups Pines All pines regardless of species principally longleaf slash and loblolly Cypress Pondcypress and baldcypress Hardwoods All hardwood species Pulping hardwoods Bay magnolia yellow poplar red maple all species of gums and other softtextured species Nonpulping hardwoods Firm textured spscies such as ash hickory elm persimmon birch beech holly and all oaks except blackjack and blucjack which were considered as cull and are not included in the cordwood volume data Forest Condition Classes Oldgrowth Forest stands having the characteristics of mature original forests Secondgrowth Forest stands which have replaced the original forests Size Classes Sawtimber a Pine trees nine inches dbh and larger which are 25 i s r 150 nercent sound and will nroduco one 12 foot log b Cyrress same qualifications as pine c Hardwood trees 13 inches dbh and larger which are 50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log Cordwood Any tree between 49 inches and the minimum sawlog dbh at least 75 percent sound and having a reasonably straight stem with the exception of scrub oaks such as blackjack and bluejack oaks and all other species which because of fork crook extreme limbiness or other sound defects will never become suitable for sawtimber Heproduction All trees smaller than 5 inches dbh Density Fumber Trees Required Sawtimber 1 Good Medium Poor Plot Size 10 12 trees Ik 16 trees 18 157 3 5lU 35 2 U or less 2 or less 1 or less acre acre j acre Cordwood 3i 2 1 or less lU0 acre Reproduction 10 59 k or less lUo acre Scrub oaks and associated minor snecies excluded All stands coming under the good or medium classification of the above table were classified as having good stocking The remaining sawtimber and cordwood stands ie those coming under the poor classification of the above table but having 59 trees of reproduction size on l4o acre were classified as having medium stocking Those sawtimber cordwood and reproduction stands coming under the poor classification of the above table but having k or less trees of reproduction size on lUo acre were classified as having poor stocking 26 FORESTRY BULLETIN NO 8 FEBRUARY 1946 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 7 THE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF GEORGIA IN COOPERATION WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATIONForestry Bulletin No 8 February I9U6 FOREST FACTS FOB GEORGIA DISTRICT 7 V B F Grant and A E Patterson h The Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia in cooperation with The Georgia Department of Forestry The American Forestry AssociationFOREWORD The Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal was initiated in July ljkk under a cooperative agreement between the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia the Georgia Department of Forestry and the American Forestry Association The purpose of the survey is to determine on a county basis l the volume of sawtimber cordwood and other forest products 2 the rate at which this timber is growing 3 drain and mortality k acreage burned annually 5 area of forest land 6 cutting practices and 7 management trends The field work in District f was done in April May and June 195 This publication is a preliminary report and the data are subject to correction before they are published in a state report to be issued early in 1946 Only items 1 k and 5 above are considered in this report The others need considerable interpretation and additional study befor releasing and they too will form nart of the state report The Georgia Department of Forestry through Director J M Tinker furnished help from the State and District Staff in the collection of field data The American Forestry Association through Director John B Woods and Regional Consultant Charles R Ross approved general plans for the project Coordination of the survey and report preparation were under the supervision of the authors Appreciation is expressed to the Agricultural Adjustment Administra tion the School of Forestry of the University of Georgia and to the Georgia Forestry Association for valuable assistance in the survey Special acknowledgement is due Frank Pullen District Forester Frank Osborne and George Bishop District Marketing Aides of the Georgia Department of Forestry Robert K Boydell formerly of the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia and L W R Jackson of the Division of Forest Pathology Bureau of Plant Industry Soils and Agricultural Engineering IT S Department of Agriculturev k i xr Ellis Arnall Governor of Georgia AGRICULTURAL AD INDUSTRIAL DFVFLOPMFHT BOARD OF GEORGIA Blanton Fort son Chairman L Vaughan Howard Executive Director Name of Member Address Ivan AllenAtlanta T 7 Aborcrombie Atlanta Charles L Bowden Macon W N Banks Grantvilie Cason J Callaway Hamilton M D CollinsAtlanta Ryburn G ClayAtlanta Mrs Frank C David Columbus Blanton Fortson Athens Charles B Gramling Atlanta Robert W Groves Savannah Alfred 7 Jones Sea Island Torn Binder Atlanta Wiley L Moore Atlanta Walter R McDonald Atlanta Henry Mclntosh Albany H McNaughtonfCartersville J L Pilcher Meigs Fd Stevens Dawson M King backer t Waynesboro Wilson Williams Atlanta A r 27lCONTENTS Description of Georgia District 75 Bartow County Data9 Catoosa County Data 10 Chattooga County Data 11 Cobb County Data t 12 Dade County Data13 Douglas County Data lk Floyd County Data 15 Cordon County Data l6 Haralcon County Data 17 Murray County Data18 Paulding County Data19 Poke County Data20 Walker County Data21 Whit field County Data22 Summary of District 7 Data 23 Definitions24 niaaKs DESCRIPTION OF GEORGIA DISTRICT J Georgia District f the area covered in this report is located in northwest Georgia and includes a portion of the upper Piedmont Plateau and the entire Limestone Valley and upland province It is identical to District 7 of the Georgia Department of Forestry and Georgia Congressional District 7 and embraces the following lU counties Bartow Cobb Floyd Catoosa Dade Gordon Chattooga Douglas Haralson Murray Walker Paulding Whitfield Polk The total area of the District including water areas is 2901120 acres Sixtynine percent of this total area or 2000316 acres is in forest 1 land On a percentage basis this varies from 86 percent in Dade County to 57 percent in Cobb County and on an acreage basis from 235206 acres in Floyd County to 66052 acres in Catoosa County Among the principal cities in the District are Rome Marietta Dalton Cedartown and Cartorsville Other cities are Buchanan Calhoun Chatsworth Dallas Douglasville LaFayette Ringold Summerville and Trenton The District is served by several railroads including the Central of Georgia the Louisville and Nashville the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis the Seaboard Air Line the Southern and the Tennessee Alabama and Georgia Federal and state paved highways and state and county graded roads traverse the District The principal rivers in the District are the Coosa the Chattooga and the Chattahoochee 1 Definitions and explanations of forestry terms as used by the Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal are given on pages 2k and 25 5 M1 s Practically all of the forest area of the District is covered by one of the following three forest types the pinehardwoods type where short loaf andor loblolly pine is mixed with hardwoods the hardwoods typo and the loblollyshortleaf pine type Secondgrowth stands of timber cover most of the forest area of the District Small scattered stands of oldgrowth timber occur occasionally in all types but in the aggregate they comprise only a small proportion of the total timber volume and an even smaller proportion of the forest area The dominant interest in forest use in District 7 has been lumber with poles piling crossties and fuelwood secondary in importance In recent years a considerable amount of pulpwood has been cut The net volume of pine and hardwood sawtimber in the District totals 2297937000 board feet Approximately 75 percent or 173377000 board feet of this total volume is pine sawtimber The remaining 563560 board feet are hardwood sawtimber On the basis of total forest land acreage this represents an average of 867 board feet of pine and 282 board feet of hardwood per acre or a total of lU9 board feet per forest land acre of all species Under present as well as under normal conditions and from both a physical and an economic standpoint almost th entire volume of sawtimber can be listed as accessible Vet cordwood volume in the District not including sawtimber sized trees and culls totals 5323700 cords Of this total 3504200 cords or 65 percent are pine 25200 cords or 6 percent are pulping hardwoods and 1565300 cords or 29 percent are nonpulping hardwoods This is an average volume per acre for forest land of 18 cords of pine 01 cords of pulping hardwoods and 08 cords of nonpulping hardwoods or a total of 27 cords per forest land acre of all species 3 o1SlletinPernnent ar8 glVen by 0UntieS in the latt8r Prtion 6 3 vr r f rfiO vViTfTI f I fiVJ J Ii j JTJC 01 V Wr f JN V Of the 2000316 acres of forest land in the District 79 percent is rated as having good stocking 9 percent as having medium stocking and 12 percent as having poor stocking Most of the area classified as poorly stocked has apparently been in such a condition for years and will not revert to merchantable timber unless it is planted More than three million seedlings have been planted in the District within the past lj years About 7 percent of the forest area of District 1 or more than lUoOOO acres burned over in I9UU Most of this acreage was burned by wild fires which are a major threat to the forests as well as a deterrent to the application of sound forestry practices in the District Only four counties Dade Floyd Bartow and Cobb have established countywide fire protection in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Forestry In the Ik counties in the District approximately 11 percent or 321UOO acres of all land listed on the I9U4 tax digest was owned in units of 1000 acres or more by 137 owners For individual counties there is considerable variation in the proportion held in the 1000 acre and larger ownership group The largest percentage is in Dade County where 11 owners hold 36100 acres or 3U percent and the smallest in in Catoosa County where one individual holds 120Q acres or 1 percent In addition to Dade County more than 15 percent of the land in Chattooga Floyd and Polk Counties are in holdings of 1000 acres and over These do not necessarily indicate ownership of a contiguous tract of land but possibly a number of separate tracts located in the county Publicly owned land in District 7 includes S5072 acres of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Catoosa Chattooga Floyd Gordon Murray Walker and thitfield Counties owned by the United States Forest Service The Soil Conservation Service owns 11150 acres in Whitfield County and the National Park Service owns more than 9000 acres in 9 separate tracts in 7 Bartow Catoosa Cobb Dado Gordon Paulding Talker and Whitfield Counties The War Department oims Port Oglethorpe in Catoosa and Walker Counties The State Division of Parks ovms the Fort Mountain State Park of 1955 acres in Murray County and the Cloudland Canyon State Park of 2370 acres in Dado County The State Department of Wildlife owns the Summerville Hatchery of 7 acres in Chattooga County h ITil r fcvBARTOW COUFTY Total area 304640 acres Porest area 205023 acres 67 percent Total net sawtimber volume 225903000 board feet Fine 184113000 board feet Hardwood 4l790000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 469300 cords Pine 310000 cords Pulping hardwoods 20400 cords 17onpulping hardwoods 138900 cords Stocking Good 159918 acres Medium 4100 acres Poor 41005 acres Area burned 1944 8801 acres I 9 3CATOOSA CCTJFTY Total area 106SS0 acres forest area 66052 acrs 62 percent Total net sawtiniber volume 76727000 board feet Pine 55683000 board feet Hardwood 210UU000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 169000 cords Pine 81100 cords Pulping hardwoods 11200 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 76700 cords Stocking Good 5765 acres Medium 660 acres Poor 7927 acres Area burned igUU k62k acres v 10 CHATTOOGA COUHTY Total area 202S80 acres Forest area 150334 acres 7J percent Total net sawtimber volume 15892000 board feet Pine 131398000 board feet Hardwoods 2349000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 448500 cords Pine 364200 cords Pulping hardwoods 12900 cords lionpulping hardwoods 71400 cords Stocking Good 106737 acres Medium 30067 acres Poor 13530 acres Area burned 1944 10523 acres 11CQBB COUNTY Total area 222720 acres Forest area 127173 acres 57 percent Total net sartimber volume 155724000 board feet Pine 106508000 board feet Hardwood 49216000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 363100 cords Fine 266000 cords Pulping hardwoods 5300 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 91800 cords Stocking Good 11953 acres Medium Poor 7630 acres Area burned 1944 635 acres 12 ov c DADS COUNTY Total area 105600 acres Forest area 9099 acres 86 percent Total net sawtimber volume 58899000 board feet Pine kl918000 board feet Hardwood 16981000 board feet Total net cordood volume 239700 cords Fine 76700 cords Puluing hardwoods 900 cords Tonrralping hardwoods 153600 cords Stocking Oood 76019 acres Medium Poor lUUSO acres Area burned 1M 2715 acres 13 spirDOUGLAS COUNTY Total area 1292SO acres Forest area 87393 acres 68 percent Total net sawtimber voltime 897911000 board feet Pine 7629000 board feet Hardwood 15162000 board feet Total net cordood volume 207500 cords Pine 152500 cords Pulping hardwoods 8600 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 46400 cords Stocking Good 74284 acres Medium Poor 13109 acres Area burned 1944 8739 acres 14 FLOYD COUlTY Total area 3289o0 acres Forest aroa 235206 acres 72 percent Totai net sawtimber volume 362266000 board fset Fine 309321000 board feet Hardwood 5295000 board feet Total not cordwood volume 1068600 cords Pine 818700 cords Pulping hardwoods 2300 cords ITonpulping hardwoods 226500 cords Stocking Good 101139 acres Medium 119955 acres Poor l4112 acres Area burned 19 lo6b8 acres 15GOEDOU COUNTY Total area 229120 acres forest area 14617 acres 64 percent Total net sawtirnber volume 166858000 board feet Pine 125438000 board feet Hardwood 41420000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 320600 cords Pine 238800 cords Pulping hardwoods 21800 cords lionpulping hardwoods 6000 cords Stocking Good 128638 acres Medium Poor 2923 acres l46lS acres Area burned 1944 8771 acr es 16HJLRALSON COUNTY Total area 1S2U00 acres Forest are 130Ul6 acres 2 percent Total net sawtiraber volume Ifk37000 board feet Pine 116577000 board feet Hardwood 57770000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 287200 cords Pine 136000 cords Pulping hardwoods 50700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 100500 cords Stocking Good 113462 acres Medium 3912 acres Foor 1302 pcres Area burned 1944 15650 acres 7 17 MURRAY COUNTY Total area 218880 acres Forest area 171821 acres 70 percent Total net sawtimber volume l885U9OOO board feet Pine lU5U05OOO board feet Hardwood U3lUU000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 375700 cords Pine 283500 cords Pulping hardwoods 22J00 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 69500 cords Stocking Good 151202 acres Medium Poor 3U37 acres 17182 acres Area burned I9UU 10309 acr h OS 18 PAUIDIJTG COUFTY Total ara 203520 acres Forest area 144499 acres 71 percent Total net sawtimber volume 158111000 board feet Pine 111214000 board feet Hardwood 46897000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 314200 cords Pine 209000 cords Pulping hardwoods 13500 cords Tonpulping hardwoods 91700 cords Stocking Good Medium Poor 125714 acre 1445 acres 17340 aci Area burned 1944 14450 acre 19 POLK COUNTY Total area 199680 acres Forest area 130790 acres 66 percent Total net sawtimber volume 135821000 board feet Pine 97100000 board feet Hardwood 38721000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 256900 cords Pine 173000 cords Pulping hardwoods 10700 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 73200 cords Stocking Good 10728 acres Medium 392 acres Poor 19618 acres Area burned I9UU 22235 acres h 20 WALKSB COUNTY Total area 286720 acres Forest area 202711 acres 71 percent Total net sawtimber volum 19830000 board feet Pine lUg6lU000 board feet Hardwood 49816000 board feet Total net cordood volume 532400 cords Pine 223300 cords Pulping hardwoods 28100 cords Nonpulping hard30ds 281000 cords Stocking Cood 17332 acres Medium 2027 acres Poor 26352 acres Area burned lkk 8108 acres 31 1 21 WHITPISLD COUNTY Total area 179g4o acres Forest area 112220 acres 62 percent Total net sawtimber volume 151619000 board feet Pine 86459000 board feet Hardwood 65l6o000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 271000 cords Pine 171400 cords Pulping hardvroods 15500 cords Fonpulping hardwoodst g4100 cords Stocking Good S52gg acres Medium 13466 acres Poor 13466 acres Area burned 1944 6733 acres 22BBnSUMMARY OF DISTRICT 7 Total area 2901120 acres Forest area 2000316 acres 69 percent Total net sawUniber volume 2297937000 board feet Pine 173377000 board feet Hardwood 563560000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 5323700 cords Pine 350200 cords Pulping hardwoods 25200 cords ITonpulping hardwoods 1565300 cords Stocking Oood 1580989 acres Medium 185916 acres Poor 233H acres Area burned I9UU 1U468U acres n 23 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED General Total area Entire acreage within the boundaries of the unit considered including water areas Total areas used were obtained from the publication Areas of the United States lqUo U S Bureau of the Census I9U2 Forest area Acreage obtained from aerial photographs having a forest cover agricultural urban water roads rightofways and other nonforest areas omitted Forest land Land supporting a forest cover or which if cleared does not show evidence of being used for improved pasture agricultural urban or other nonforest use Net volume Volume from which cull sweep and mortality volumes have been deducted Board feet Board foot measure log scale by International 5inch rule Cord Standard cord k x k x 8 feet in dimensions Top diameter Minimum top diameters for pine and cypress 5 inches for hardwoods gg inches all trees having large branches forked top excessive crook or other defect to an acceptable utilization top diameter dbhDiameter breast high kh feet above the average ground level Naval stores crops Ten thousand cups or faces Forest Types Loblollyshortleaf pine Forest stands in which over 75 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are loblolly andor shortleaf pine Pinehardwoods Forest stands in which 50 to 75 percent inclusive of the dominant and codominant stems are pine and the remainder are hardwoods Hardwoods Forest stands in which more than 50 percent of the dominant and codominant stems arc hardwoods Species Groups Pines All pines regardless of species principally longleaf shash and loblolly Cypress Pondcypress and baldcypress Hardwoods All hardwood species Pulping hardwoods Bay magnolia yellow poplar red maple all species of gums and other softtextured species Nonpulping hardwoods 7irm textured species such ps ash hickory elm persimmon birch beech holly and all oaks except blackjack and bluejack which were considered as cull and are not included in the cordwood volume data Forest Condition Classes Oldgrowth Forest stands having the characteristics of mature original forests Secondgrowth Forest stands which have replaced the original forests Size Classes Sawtimber a Pine trees nine inches dbh and larger which are h W 2k ht M 50 percent sound and will nroduce one 12 foot log b Cypress same qualifications as pine c Hardwood trees 13 inches dbh and larger which are 50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log Cordwood Any tree between 49 inches and the minimum sawlog dbh at least 75 percent sound and having a reasonably straight stem with the exception of scrub oaks such as blackjack and bluejack oaks and all other species which because of fork crook extreme limbiness or other sound defects will never become suitable for sawtimber Reproduction All trees smaller than 5 inches dbh Density Fumber Tres Required Sawtimber Good Medium Poor Plot Size 10 12 trees 15 l4 16 trees 6 18V 3 5l4 35 2 4 or less 2 or less 1 or less acre acre J acre Cordwood JtL 2 1 or less lUo acre Reproduction 10 ii 4 or less l4o acre Scrub oaks and associated minor species excluded All stands coming under the good or medium classification of the above table were classified as having good stocking The remaining sawtimber and cordwood stands ie those coming under the poor classification of the above table but having 59 trees of reproduction size on l4o acre were classified as having medium stocking Those sawtimber cordwood and reproduction stands coming under the poor classification of the above table buthaving 4 or less trees of reproduction size on l4o acre wore classified as having poor stocking 25 AJ v 1 i FORESTRY BULLETIN NO 9 FEBRUARY 1946 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 9 i THE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF GEORGIA IN COOPERATION WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATIONForestry Bulletin No 9 February I9U6 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA DISTRICT 9 by B F Grant and A E Fatterson The Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia in cooperation with The Georgia Department of Forestry The American Forestry Association h 1 NSffa FCBFWOBD The Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal was initiated in July lkk undsr a cooperative agreement between the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia the Georgia Department of Forestry and the American Forestry Association The purpose of the survey isto determine on a county basis l the volume of sawtimber cordwood and other forest products 2 the rate at which this timber is growing 3 drain and mortality k acreage burned annually 5 area of forest land 6 cutting practices and 7 management trends The field work in District 3 was done in July August and September 195 This publication is a preliminary renort and the data are subject to correction before they are published in a state report to be issued early in 196 Only items 1 U and 5 above are considered in this report The others need considerable interpretation and additional study before releasing and they too will form part of the state report The Georgia Department of Forestry through Director J M Tinker furnished help from the State and District Staff in the collection of field data The American Forestry Association through Director John B Woods and Regional Consultant Charles H Boss approved general plans for the project Coordination of the survey and report preparation were under the supervision of the authors 1 Appreciation is expressed to the Agricultural Adjustment Administra tion the School of Forestry of the University of Georgia and to the Georgia Forestry Association for valuable assistance in the survey Special acknowledgement is due 0 F Martin District Forester and Henry Elrod District Marketing Aide of the Georgia Department of Forestry Robert X Boydell formerly of the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia and L W B Jackson of the Division of Forest Pathology Bureau of Plant Industry Soils and Agricultural Engineering U S Department of Agriculture h Ellis Arnall Governor of Georgia AGRICULTURAL at1D INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF GEORGIA Blanton Fort son Chairman L Vaughan Howard Executiv Director Name of Member Address Ivan Allen T F AbcrcromMe Charles L Bowdcn 7 F Banks Cason J Callaway M B Collins Ryburn C May Mrs Fran C David 3 lant o n Fo r c s o n Charles B Cramling Robert T Groves Alfred Jones Tom Linoer c Tiley L iIcore Walter R KcDonald Henry LIciatosh T H MciTavghton J L Pilcher Ed Stevens M King Packer Wilson Williams Atlanta Atlanta Kacon Grantvilie Hamilton Atlanta Atlanta Co liimbus Athens Atlanta Savannah Sea Island p Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Albany Cartcrsville Mcigs Dawson Xaynesboro Atlanta MCONTENTS Description of Georgia District 9 t 5 Banks County Data 9 Barrow County Data T 10 Cherokee County Data11 Dawson County Data12 DcKalb County Data 13 Fannin County Data lU Forsyth County Data 15 Fulton County Data16 Cilmer County Data 17 Cwinnett County DataIS Habersham County Data19 Hall County Data 20 Jackson County Data 21 Lumpkin County Data 22 Fickens County Data23 Rabun County Data 24 Rockdale County Data 25 Stephens County Data26 Towns County Data 2f Union County Data 28 White County Data 29 Summary of District 9 Data 30 Definitions31 4DESCRIPTION OF GEORGIA DISTRICT 9 Tho area discussed in this report is Ceorgia District 9 which is identical to District 9 of the Georgia Department of Forestry and includes two Georgia Congressional Districts 5 and 9 It is located in the northeast corner of Georgia and includes the Appalachian Mountain Plateau and a part of the Piedmont Platsau Twentyone counties are included in the District Listed alphabetically these counties are Banks Fannin Habersham Rabun Barrow Forsyth Hall Rockdalc Cherokee Fulton Jackson Stephens Dawson Gilmer Lumpkin Towns DoKalb Gwinnett Pickens Union White The total area of the District including water areas is QtfcfPQ acres Seventytwo nercsnt of this total area or 29450 acres is in forest 1 land This varies from 90 percent in Rabun County to 50 percent in Barrow County and on an acreage basis from U4564 acres in Rockdale County to 217158 acres in Fulton County The erincipal cities in the District are Atlanta Docatur and Gainesville Other tovms are Blue idge Canton Blairsvillc Clarkesvillc Clayton Cleveland Conyers Gumming Dahlonega Dawsonville Ellijay Hiawassee Homer Jasper Jefferson Lawrcnceville moccoa and Winder Several railroads most of which connect at Atlanta serve tho District Among these are the Central of Georgia the Louisville and Nashville the Seaboard Air Line the Southern and the Tallulah Falls railroad Federal and state and county graded roads are fairly numerous in the District but a large 1 Definitions and explanations of forestry terms as used by the Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal are given on pages 31 and 32 5 hpart of the District is inaccessible to motor vehicles because of tho rugged topography Much of the Chattahoochee National Forest however is accessible to motor traffic by means of well constructed Forest Service roads The District is drained by the Chattahoochee Oconec Savannah and Tennessee river systems Practically all of the forest area of the District is covered by one of three forest types Of most importance from the standpoint of coverage is the pinehardwoods type which is dominated by shortleaf andor loblolly pine usually shortleaf mixed with hardwoods A considerable portion of the District is covered by the hardwoods type in which hardwoods principally oaks hickories and yellow poplar predominate A third type oure pine exists in scattered stands Secondgrowth stands of timber cover mort of the forest area of the District Stands of oldgrowth timber are found throughout the District in all typos but in the aggregate they comprise a small proportion of the total timber volume and an even smaller proportion of the forest area The dominant interest in forest use in District 9 has been lumber with crossties poles piling fuelwood and Pulpwood secondary in importance The American Chestnut at one time a valuable tree in the District but now virtually exterminated by disease is still in demand for acid wood 2 The net volume of pine and hardwood sawtimber in the District totals 5329046000 board feet Approximately 67 percent or 36J3313000 board feet of this total volume is pine sawtimber The remaining 175390000 board feet or 33 percent are hardwood sawtimber On the basis of total forest land acreage this represents an average of 1234 board feet of Pino and 595 board feet of hardwood per acre or a total of 1829 board feet per forest land acre of all species d Volume and other pertinent data are given by counties in the latter portion of this bulletin 6 Net cordwood volume in the District not including sawtimber sized trees and culls totals 10785700 cords Of this total 5124000 cords or 4g percent are Dine 1726200 cords or 16 percent are pulping hardwoods ad 3935500 cords or 36 percent are nenpulping hardwoods This is an average volume por acre for forest land of 17 cords of pine 6 cords of pulping hardwoods and 13 cords of nonpulping hardwoods or a total of 36 cords per forest land acre of all snocies Of the 2o45450 acres of forest land in the District 94 percent is raW as having good stocking 1 percent is rated as having medium stocking and 5 percent as having poor stocking Most of the area classified as poorly stocked has boon in such a condition for years and will not revert to merchantable timber unless it is planted More than 6 million pine seedlings have been planted in the District within the past 15 years About 5 ncrcent of the forest area of the District or more than 147000 acres burned over in 1944 This acreage was burned by wild fires which are a major threat to the forest as well as a deterrent to the application of sound forest practices in the District Only two counties Cherokee and Pickens have established countywide fire protection in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Forestry Gilmer County has a TP0 with 42000 acres under protection In the 21 counties in the District approximately 8 percent or 339300 acrns of all land listed on the 1944 tax digest was owned in units of 1000 acres or more by 150 owners For individual counties there is considerable variation in the proportion held in the 1000 acre and larger ownership group No such owners were listed in Barrow County while in Gilmer County 15 owners hold 66300 acres or nearly 24 percent of the total area These do not necessarily indicate ownership of a contiguous tract of land but possibly a number of separate tracts located in the county 7 21 Federally owned lands in the District include 559000 acres of the Chattahoochoe National Forest in Banks Dawson Fannin Cilmer Habersham Hall Lumpkin Habun Stephens Towns Union and White Counties which is administered by the United States Forest Service The War Department owns Camp Toccoa of more than 17000 acres in Stephens and Habersham Counties State owned lands include 31ack Hock Mountain Park of 638 acres in Rahun Amicalola Falls Park of 239 acres in Dawson Brasstown Bald State Park of 1 acres in Towns Vogel State Park of 367 acres in Union and Lumpkin and Fort Yargo of 1Ul2 acres in Barrow County These parks are administered by the Georgia Department of Parks The School of Forestry University of Georgia owns the Hardman Memorial Forest of 500 acros in Jackson County and the State Department of Wildlife owns the State Came Farm in DcKalb County consisting of 36 acres Rabun County owns a 1000 tract of forest land near Clayton BAMS COUNTY warn Total area 17810 acres Forest area 93583 acres 63 percent Total net sawtimber volume 200325000 board feet Pine lUl200000 board feet Hardwood 59125000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 29570 cords Pine 10U300 cords Pulping hardwoods 9100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 100000 cords Stocking Good SOHSl acres Medium 2808 acres Poor 102gU acres Area burned 19UU 1872 acres I P 9 P AMHMBMHmM BASSOS COtTFTY Total area 109440 acres Forest area 55158 acres 50 percent Total net sawtimber volume 139QU9000 board feet Pine 10177O0O board feet Hardwood 38222000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 97500 cords Pine 68800 cords Pulping hardwoods 1000 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 27700 cords Stocking Good U96U2 acres Medium 1655 acres Poor 3861 acres Area burner I9UU 1103 acres 1 301 10 r 3HERQKEE C0U1TTY Total area 273920 acres Forest area 20Uf6l8 acres 75 percent Total net sawtimber volume 252613000 board feet Pine 204973000 board feet Hardwood 53635000 board feet Total not cordwood volume 551000 cords Fine 322500 cords Pulping hardwoods 23300 cords Fonpulping hardwoods 204700 cords Stocking Good 182110 acres Medium 20U6 acres Poor 20U62 acres Area burned 19U 12278 acres p J h V 11 IHttBi DATSCIT COUNTY Total area 136320 acres Forest area 113827 acres Bk percent Total net sawtimber volume 176255000 board feet Pine 117665000 board feet Hardwood 58590000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 577000 cords Fine 271200 cords Pulping hardwoods 87400 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 318400 cords Stocking Good 108136 acres Medium Poor 5691 acres Area burned 1944 14797 acres 1 ft 12ft DEKALB COUKT Total area 172l6o acres Porcsst area 111560 acres 65 percent Total net saxvtimber volume 254461000 board feet Pine l6l934000 board feet HardwoodJ 92527000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 502900 cords Pine 316600 cords Pulping hardwoods 84100 cords TTonpulplng hardwoods 102200 cords Stocking Good 109329 acres Medium 2231 acres Poor Area burned 1944 2000 acres 13 FAMIU COUNTY Total area 25U10 acres Forest area 210953 acres 83 percent Total net sawtirriber volume 32669000 board feet Pine 218066000 board feet Hardwood 108583000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 1254800 cords Fine 502700 cords Pulping hardwoods 162000 cords Nonpulping hardvraods 590100 cords Stocking Good 200U05 acres Medium Poor 1058 acres Area burned I9UU 2742U acres 1 h i y 1 ikPFORSYTE C0TOJTY Total area 155520 acres Forest area 93 8 acres 60 nercent Total net sawtimber volume 15075000 board feet Pine 10033U000 board feet Hardwood 53691000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 502900 cords Pine 139700 cords Pulping hardwoods 161300 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 201900 cords Stocking Good S7860 acres Medium 935 acres Poor U673 acres Area burned I9UU 560S acres Ol h 15 HHHHFULTON COUNTY Total area 33980 acres Forest area 217158 acres 64 percent Total net sawtimber volume 4lO6o4000 board feet Pine 258050000 board feet Hardwood 152554000 board feet Total net cordvrood volume 421800 cords Pine 295100 cords Pulping hardwoods 33100 cords Fonpulping hardwoods 93600 cords Stocking Good 199785 acres Medium 2172 acres Poor 15201 acres Area burned 1944 10858 acres 16 iGILMER COUFTY Total area 280960 acres Forest area 239173 acres 85 percent Total net sawtimber volume 359770000 board feet Finn 255829000 board feet Hardwood 10391000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 389000 cords Pine 481900 cords Pulping hardwoods 71200 cords hardwoods pulp 335900 Stocking Good 222U31 acres Msdium Poor 2392 acres 1350 acres Area burned 1944 19134 acres h 17 v H jyhn GWIMFTT COUNTY Total area 279680 acres Forest area 1593 acres 55 percent Total net sawtimber volume 35329000 board feet Fine 273Ugg000 board feet Hardwood 7181000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 491000 cords Fine 226800 cords Pulling hardwoods 93900 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 17000 cords Stocking Good lU099g acres Medium 46Ug acres Poor 9279 acres Area burned I9UU 3093 acres 1 h V 18 HABERSHAM COUNTY Total area 181120 acres Forest area 136383 acres 75 percent Total net sawtimber volume 244776000 board feet Pine 168715000 board feet Hardwood 7606lOOO board feet Total net cordwood volume 438600 cords Pine 207400 cords Pulping hardwoods 55100 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 176100 cords Stocking Good 130928 acres Medium 1364 acres Poor 4091 acres Area burned 1944 2728 acres 1 h 19 1 1 HALL C0U1TTY Total area 27264o acres Forest area 190848 acres 70 percent Total net sawtimber volume 312902000 board feet Pine 204844000 board feet Hardwood 108064000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 928300 cords Pine 2l2R00 cords Pulping hardwoods 316300 cords Fonpulping hardwoods 369500 cords Stocking Good 177Ugg acres Medium 3817 acres Poor 9542 acres Area burned 1944 3817 acres J 1 ii 20 7JACKSON COUNTY Total area 215680 acres Forest area 121212 acres 56 percent Total net sawtimber volume 234806000 board feet Pine 160299000 board feet Hardwood 714 507000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 345200 cords Pine P18200 cords Pulping hardwoods 60800 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 66200 cords Stocking Good 107879 acres Medium 484g acres Poor 8485 acres Area burned 1944 13333 acres 1 J ov h P 21 LTJMPKI2T COUNTY Total area 186880 acres Forest area 165015 acres gg percent Total net sawtimber volume 2g2512000 board feet Fine 196g30000 board feet Hardwood 85682000 board feet Total net cordwood volumc 636800 cords Fine 2g960O cords Pulping hardwoods 64700 cords Nonnulping hardwoods 2g2500 cords Stocking Good I5676U acres Medium 1650 acres Poor 6601 acres Area burned I9UU 9901 acres M V 22 PICKSKS COUNTY Total area 144000 acres Forest are 111156 acres 77 percent Total net sawtimber volume 166539000 board feet Pine 110561000 board feet Hardwood 55978000 board foot Total net cordood volume 429000 cords Pine Uo700 cords Pulping hardwoods 13500 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 174800 cords Stocking Good 105883 acres Medium 2229 acres Poor 3344 acres Area burned 1944 5573 acres M 30 J v 23 v Is H BABUN COUNTY Total area 2U0000 acres Porest area 215OUO acres 90 percent Total net sawtimtier volume U3i35gOOO board feet Fine 26S5Uonoo board feet Hardwood 162318000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 533200 cords Pine 312100 cords 7Ji Pulping hardwoods 27200 cordf Fontultine hardwoods 193900 cords Stocking f 5ood 210739 acres Medium Poor U301 acres Area burned I9UU U300 acr h 2U v R0CKDAL3 COUNTY Total area 81920 acres Forest area 44564 acres jU percent Total net sawtimber volume 96915000 board feet Pine 64054000 board feet Hardwoods 32861000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 106800 cords Pino 17800 cords Pulping hardwoods 29600 cords lTonpulping hardwoods 29400 cords Stocking Oood 40999 acres Medium 891 acres Poor 2674 acres Area burned ig44 892 acres I 5 I 25 STEPHENS COUNTY Total area 115200 acres Forest area 86170 acres 75 percent Total net sawtimber volume 178183000 board feet Pine 111035000 board feet Hardwood 6718000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 518400 cords Pine 6Ui4O0 cords Pulping hardwoods 102500 cords Tonrulping hardwoods 1R1500 cords Stocking Good 85308 acres Medium 862 acres Poor Area burned I9UU 1200 acres 9 M 26HH TOOTHS COTJITTY l Total area 110080 acres Forest area 27509 acres 79 percent Total net sawtimbcr volume 181206000 board feet P Pine 112200000 board fet Hardwood 69006000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 223700 cords Pine 131600 cord Pulping hardwoods 12300 cords onrulting hardwoods 79800 cords Stocking m Good 85759 acres Medium Poor 1750 acres Area burned lUk 1750 acres M 27 lt UNION COUNTY Total area 204160 acres Forest area 164352 acres 81 percent Total net sawtimber volume 348542000 board feet Pine 21091000 board feet Hardwood 129601000 board feet Total net cordwood volume 420000 cords Pine 247000 cords Pulping hardwoods 23200 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 149800 cords Stocking Good l6l065 acres Medium Poor 3287 acres Ara burned 194U 3288 acres Si M 01 v 11 v 28 WHITS COUFTT Total area 155520 acres Forest area 122 U6o acres S3 percent Total net sawtimber volume 285271000 board feet Pine 133973000 board feet Hardwood 1012q 000 board feet Total net corwood voliane 52100 cords pine 193100 cords Pulping hardwoods 211200 cords Fonpulping hardwoods 117100 cords Stocking Good 125391 acres Medium Poor 2569 acres Area biirned 19 2570 acres S M y f 29 3SUMMARY OF DISTRICT 9 Total area ib jiil acres Forest area 29550 acres 72 percent Total net sawtirnber volume 5329046000 board feet Fine 3633313000 board feet Hardwood 1755733000 board feet Total net cordood volume 10785700 cords Pine 51U000 cords Pulling hardwoods 1726200 cords Nonpulping hardwoods 3935500 cords Stocking Oood 2769881 acres Medium 35 acres Poor lUl003 acres Area burned I9UU 1U752U acres 9 M 4r 30 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED General Total area Entire acreage within the boundaries of the unit considered including water areas Total areas used were obtained from the publication Areas of the United States I9U0 U S Bureau of the Census 192 Forest area Acreage obtained from aerial photographs having a forest cover agricultural urban water roads rightofways and other nonforest areas omitted Forest land Land supporting a forest cover or which if cleared does not show evidence of being used for improved pasture agricultural urban or other nonforest use Not volume Volume from which cull sweep and mortality volumes have been deducted Board feet Board foot measure log scale by International Jinch rule Cord Standard cord U x k x g feet in dimensions Top diameter Minimum top diameters for pine and cypress 5f inches for hardwoods k inches all trees having large branches forked top excessive crook or other defect to an acceptable utilization top diameter dbh Diameter breast high h feet above the average ground level Naval stores crops en thousand cups or faces Forest Types Loblollyshortleaf nineForest stands in which over 75 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are loblolly andor shortleaf pine PinehardwoodsEorest stands in which RO to 75 percent inclusive of the dominant and codominant stems are nine and the remainder are hardwoods Hardwoods Forest stands in which more than 50 percent of the dominant and codominant stems are hardwoods Species Groups Pines All pines regardless of species principally longleaf slash and loblolly Cypress Pondcypress and baldcypress Hardwoods All hardwood species Pulping hardwoodsBay magnolia yellow poplar red maple all species of gums and other softtextured species Nonpulping hardwoods Firm textured species such as ash hickory elm persimmon birch beech holly and all oaks except blackjack and bluejack which were considered as cull and are not included in the cordwood volume data Eorest Condition Classes Oldgrowth Forest stands having the characteristics of mature original forests Secondgrowth Forest stands which have replaced the original forests l 4r Size Classes Sawtimber a Pine trees nine inches dbh and larger which are 31 50 percent sound and will produce one 12 foot log b Cypress same qualifications as pine c Hardwood trees 13 inches dbh and larger which are 50 nercent sound and will nroduce one 12 foot log CordwoodAn tree beten U9 inches and the minimum sarlog dbh at least 75 nercent sound and having a reasonably straight stem with the exception of scrub oaks such as blackjack and bluejack oaks and all other species which because of fork crook extreme limbiness or other sound defects will never become suitable for sawtimber ReproductionAll trees smaller than 5 inches dbh Density Number Trees Soouired Sawt imb er Good Medium Poor Plot Size 10 12 trees lU 16 trees lg 15 6 5 514 35 2 h or less 2 or less 1 or less acre x acre Cordwcod JlL 1 or less 1Uo acre Reproduction 10 31 k or less lUo acre Scrub oaks and associated minor suecies excluded All stands coming under the good or medium classification of the above table were classified as having good stocking The remaining sawtimber and cordwood stands ie those coming under the poor classification of the above table but having 59 trees of reproduction size on lUo acre were classified as having medium stocking Those sawtimber cordwood and reproduction stands coming under the noor classification of the abowe table but having k or less trees of reproduction size on lUo acre wrre classified as having poor stocking M v 32 FORESTRY BULLETIN NO 10 SEPTEMBER 1946 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA i THE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OP GEORGIA IN COOPERATION WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OP FORESTRY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION vForestry Bulletin No 10 September 1946 7 FOREST FACTS FOR GEORGIA by B F Grant and A E Patterson The Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia in cooperation with The Georgia Department of Forestry The American Forestry Association k if1 Ellis Arnall Governor of Georgia AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF GEORGIA Blanton Fortson Chairman L Vaughan Howard Executive Director Name of Member Address i Ivan Allen Atlanta T F Abercrombie Atlanta Charles L Bowden Macon Cason J Callaway Hamilton M D Collins Atlanta Ryburn G Clay Atlanta Mrs Frank C David Columbus Blanton Fortson Athens Charles B Gramling Atlanta Robert W Groves Savannah Alfred W Jones Sea Island TomLinder Atlanta Albert Love Atlanta Wiley L Moore Atlanta Walter R McDonald Atlanta Henry Mclntosh Albany W H McNaughton Cartersville J L Richer Mei88 Ed Stevens Dawson M King Tucker Waynesboro Wilson Williams Atlantap CONTENTS Page I INTRODUCTION 1 II AUTHORS FOREWORD 2 III CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 3 IV SUMMARY OF GEORGIA FOREST FACTS 6 V TABLES 7 CiI INTRODUCTION Georgias forests constitute her greatest natural resourcea resource potentially greater than that of any other state Of the states total land area of over 37 million acres 66 per cent or 25 million acres is in forests These forests pro duce annually more than 50 per cent of the worlds supply of naval stores approximately 5 per cent of the national lumber cut tremendous quantities of cross ties poles fuelwood pulpwood and other products which furnish the landowners more than 100 million dollars incomean amount approximately equal to the value of the cotton or livestock industry in the state During the past ten years the practice of forestry has made much progress so that timber is now looked upon as a crop rather than a mine The naval stores industry in particular has made notable progress in forestry management Many commercial and private owners are practicing sound forestry on their holdings There are still however too many acres of forest land without fire protection and management practices In order to obtain data on the timber re sources of the state at the county level the Agri cultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia started a survey in August 1944 Co operating with the Board were the American Forestry Association the Georgia Forestry Asso ciation the Georgia Department of Forestry the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the School of Forestry The results of the survey have been publish ed in nine bulletins with the counties grouped into districts corresponding to those of the Georgia Department of Forestry The present report is a summary of the nine district bulletins to gether with recommendations based on the study which if put into effect will go far toward bring ing the forest lands of the state into full product ivity During the past five years Georgia has con tributed in a large way to the volume of forest products needed for the war effort During this period a much greater volume has been removed than during any other similar period in the states history In spite of this heavy drain the total supply has decreased less than 3 per cent For est acreage has increased to the point that two out of every three acres are in forests Further studies should be made of the states forestry situation Of paramount interest to the citizens of Georgia are studies of commercial and public ownership of forest land taxation price differentials existing between products in Georgia and other states and cutting practices Ivan Allen Sr Chairman Forestry Committee II AUTHORS FOREWORD The need for accurate and uptodate data on forest acreage and volume of forest products in Georgia has been known to the authors for several years The only area figures available previous to the work of the Georgia Forest Resource Appraisal were guesses or estimates having little foundation for proof No figures were available which gave total volume by counties or even volume for all counties Between August 1945 and February 1946 the authors wrote a series of bulletins published by the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia which contained the above information This was the first time this speci fic information in the form described was ever published for Georgia The present bulletin which is a summary of the nine bulletins mentioned in the preceding paragraph brings together the area and volume data in one table The figures on the total areas of counties were taken from the 1940 United States Census reports which are considered by authorities to be the most accurate Forest areas which were obtained by examination of aerial potographs for each county arc believed to be more accurate than similar figures hereto fore published Volume was obtained by samp ling the forest land in each county using a method developed by the authors and proven to be accu rate Fieldworkwas begun in September 1944 and completed in December 1945 Growth and drain have been projected so that the figures on volume are those obtaining as of July 1946 The volumes herein given are therefore considered to be the most accurate available Grateful acknowledgement is made to Dis trict Foresters R L Moseley C M Everett Guyton DeLoach E J Smith W H McCoinb W V Waters Frank Pullen O F Martin and W R Johnson of the State Department of For estry and to the members of their staffs fcr assistance in obtaining the field data V 4r I F 5 AIII CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 1 STATEWIDE FOREST FIRE PROTEC TION Uncontrolled or wild forest fires are a major problem in Georgia forestry The enormity of this problem can be grasped by considering the fact that 2821000 acres of forest land were found to have been burned during the year im mediately preceding the Appraisal Not all of this area was burned willfully or negligently Comparatively small portions were burned pur posely in such a manner as to enhance reseeding or other silvicultural measures Such burning is called controlled or prescribed burning The re mainder of the area was burned carelessly or maliciously and is a black blot on the green forests of Georgia Advances toward a solution of the fire prob lem have been made and improvement is notice able At the present time 33 counties in Georgia have entered into a cooperative agreement with the state by which they enjoy countywide pro tection This system although better than none at all is not satisfactory The fact that its basis rests on county government cooperation and the whim of county commissioners leads to instabil ity Its administration is subject to local politics and although the minimum size of an efficient firefighting organization may be larger than necessary for a small county the scope of its activities is limited by county boundaries result ing in multiplicity of equipment and additional expense in many areas To solve the problem of fire in Georgias forests nothing short of a statewide fire protec tion and suppression system administered entire ly by the State Department of Forestry will be satisfactory There is no greater need in Georgia forestry today than the need for this statewide protection 2 A STATEWIDE PLANTING PROGRAM The results of the Appraisal show 4766000 acres or onefifth of all the forest land in Georgia to be poorly stocked Some of this area will re seed and restock itself naturally if fire is exclud ed from the stands Much of the area however is in such a condition that to obtain another crop of quality timber the landowner will have to plant the area with seedlings This is no small undertaking considering the state as a whole but it is a problem which must be faced and solved The states responsibility in this situation lies in furnishing at cost or free of charge enough seedlings to each landowner to satisfy all his re quirements To accomplish this undertaking greatly increased facilities for seedling produc tion are necessary Two forest nurseries are now maintained by the State Department of Forestry These nurseries should be operated at peak pro duction and either increased in size or new nur series established Coordinated with this increased seedling production an educational campaign should be begun and continuously stressed by state and ex tension foresters This should emphasize the need for planting proper methods and benefits including payments under the present AAA program Conducted on this basis such a pro gram will put nearly 3000000 acres of forest land back into maximum production 3 STATEWIDE MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING SERVICES It is a wellknown fact among those interested in forestry that the large forest land owners who frequently bear the brunt of adverse forestry criticism are the individuals who are practicing the best forestry in Georgia Most of this better forestry practice can be attributed to the fact that the large landowners have profes sional foresters on their staffs or buy technical forestry advice from consulting foresters To the small landowner neither of the above methods is financially possible With this in mind the State Department of Forestry has in augurated a management and marketing service which furnishes the small forest owner with tech nical advice on cutting and marketing his forest crop This advice is furnished free of charge From all indications this service has met with a great deal of success and has been greatly appre ciated by those served Where they have seen fit to follow the advice given landowners have sold their timber for the highest value product and their stand has not been depleted by unwise cutting practicesThis program which gives the small land owner equal opportunity with the large land owner to share the benefits of forestry knowl edge and by so doing increases his present and future financial opportunities and indirectly those of the state should be enlarged to such an extent that all who wish the service can obtain it 4 AN INTENSIVE EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH PROGRAM Among those who know the facts there is no doubt of the importance of forests and forestry in Georgia These persons are encouraging the de velopment of this great natural resource to its highest level of production commensurate with good forestry practices Far too many thous ands of people however have never had the op portunity to become acquainted with even the fundamentals of forestry To have so many un acquainted with this natural resource which is found on two out of every three acres in Georgia which holds such a major place in the economy of the state and which is unique in that it is the only natural resource which can be re newed perpetually is a detriment to the state which cannot be overlooked To expect the small group of professional foresters employed by the state to enlighten the entire population is unreasonable but it is a re sponsibility which they are continually having to shoulder The only means by which this job can be properly handled is to place the study of forestry in the curriculum of every school in the educational system It should not be extra curricular to be sandwiched into the days work whenever time allows but should be a full fledged required study Neither should adult education be slighted The fine forestry educa tion work now being accomplished by the Agri cultural Extension Service should be increased many times At the college level the School of Forestry of the University of Georgia which has graduated the Souths leaders in forestry for the past forty years should be given every oppor tunity to expand its services to the state by ex panding its facilities for research This school at the present time has the laboratories the forest land and the talent available for such research Only the necessary funds are lacking Forests and the study of forestry are too important to Georgia to be slighted The forests to be found in the state today great as they are should be and can be producing at least twice the volume of wood products that are annually har vested They are not producing this double crop because forest landowners have not had the opportunity to gain the necessary knowledge A coordinated and intensive educational and re search program by public and private agencies to reach all the people is the democratic way to solve many of our forestry problems 5 STATE OPERATION OF EXISTING PUBLICLY OWNED LANDS Several hundred thousand acres of Georgias forest land are now owned and operated by the Federal Government Much of this land was acquired during times of economic stress at very low prices or in times of national emergency Only a small portion of the income from these lands reverts to the state or local governments There is a strong possibility that some of these lands can be leased to the state on a 99year basis for operation by the State Department of Forestry This is not without precedent Thir tyseven thousand acres in Ware County are now under lease from the U S Soil Conservation Service Florida holds 182000 acres and South Carolina 120000 under a similar arrangement Several other tracts in Georgia held by the Soil Conservation Service the War Department and other federal agencies could be brought into this system by having the lands declared surplus and leased to the state with the provision that the state grow timber and sell stumpage on bid Acquisition of these lands for the state would allow establishment of demonstration forests in widely separated sections forests for the conduct of basis forest research and would yield a yearly income to the state probably greater than the entire appropriation for the state forestry pro gram at the present time 6 A CONTINUED STUDY OP GEORGIAS FORESTRY PROBLEMS A continued study of Georgias forestry prob lems is imperative Forestry is never static The facts collected by the Appraisal are the most exacting and most intensive ever collected for Georgia and likely for any state Not to allow this basic material to be a foundation for further study would be a waste 1 V U A F Much remains to be clone A study of for est taxes and the forest taxation system is in order The Appraisal itself should be kept up to date by periodic reexamination at three to five year intervals A study of legislation needed to place Georgia first in the nation in forestry prac tice is needed now Georgia has stepped to the front in the know ledge of her forest resources It should relin quish this leadership to noneIV SUMMARY OF GEORGIA FOREST FACTS 1 The total area of Georgia is 37680640 acres of which 24714613 acres or 66 are in forests 2 The total net volume of sawtimber is 40 bil lion board feet of which 30 billion board feet are pine and 10 billion hardwood and cypress 3 The total net volume of cordwood is 86 mil lion cords 40 million of whcih are pine 28 million pulping hardwoods and 18 million nonpulping hardwoods and cypress 4 The total net growing stock2 is 165 million cords 100 million of which are pine and 65 million hardwood and cypress 5 On the average acre of forest land the total net volume of sawtimber is 1606 board feet of which 1224 are pine and 382 hardwood and cypress 6 9 10 11 On the average acre of forest land the total net cordwood volume is 34 cords 16 cords of which are pine and 18 hardwood and cypress On the average acre of forest land the total net growing stock2 is 67 cords 41 cords of which are pine and 26 hardwood and cypress Only 26 per cent of the privately owned forest land is protected from fire Between 2 and 3 million acres are in need of planting The forest lands are producing less than onehalf of their capacity With proper protection planting and man agement Georgias forest lands will pro duce sufficient timber to supply all present and future demands and increase the growing stock 1 Does not include 464349 acres in the Okefenokee Swamp 2 Sawtimber converted to cords and added to cordwood volume F vV TABLES EXPLANATION OF TABLES Total areas include land and water areas Forest areas exclude water areas Per cent areas give the per cent the forest area is of the total land and water area All sawlog volumes are cullfree volumes Volumes were obtained for all merchantable pines 90 inches in diameter breast high and larger for all merchantable hardwoods 130 inches in diameter breast high and larger and for all mer chantable cypress 90 inches in diameter breast high and larger All cypress volumes are in cluded in the hardwood volumes All cordwood volumes are cullfree volumes Volumes were obtained for all merchantable pines and cypress 50 inches in diameter breast high to 89 inches in diameter breast high and for hardwoods to 129 inches in diameter breast high Pulping hardwoods include all softtex tured species such as sweet tupelo and black gum yellow poplar bay magnolia and maple Nonpulping hardwoods include all others and cypress Cordwood volumes include bark but do not include the upper stems of sawlog size trees or limbs Growing stock volume includes all trees both cordwood and sawtimber but not culls tops or limbs I Table County Appling Atkinson Bacon Baker Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow Ben Hill Berrien Bibb Bleckley Brantley Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Butts Calhoun Camden Candler Carroll Catoosa Charlton Chatham Chattahoochee Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clay Clayton Clinch Cobb Dist No 8 8 8 2 6 9 9 7 3 8 6 6 8 2 1 1 1 4 2 8 1 4 7 8 1 3 7 9 10 3 4 8 7 lAjeajawlog and Cordwood Volume by Counties Georgia 1946 Area in acres Total 329600 203520 187520 227840 169600 147840 109440 304640 163200 300800 162560 140160 286080 318080 291200 438400 532480 120320 184960 444800 160640 316800 106880 511360 321280 161920 202880 273920 80000 143360 95360 510080 222720 Forest 272250 174417 137265 135337 116346 93583 55158 205023 102000 206048 108265 75686 254039 162539 252305 284083 331203 73395 94330 391583 97830 172656 66052 243972 241874 137470 150334 204618 45120 84296 56453 459582 127173 Per cent 83 86 73 59 69 63 50 67 62 68 67 54 89 51 87 65 62 61 51 88 61 55 62 48 75 85 74 75 56 59 59 90 57 Sawlog Net Volume in thousand board feet Intl i log rule Cordwood Net Volume in thousand standard cords Pine 238790 179769 136284 193835 119016 141200 101727 184113 190477 182176 93395 136013 337879 320872 760700 441894 361019 86468 63423 427217 125756 118195 55683 286179 309115 239952 131398 204978 14365 73231 50580 601773 106508 8 Hard wood 36296 13567 13939 20991 87497 59125 38222 41790 10087 26165 34081 29012 29360 30824 63832 87226 198992 34361 49163 112188 20606 19259 21044 25616 65195 65166 23494 53635 21641 30238 19383 157901 49216 Total 275086 193336 150223 214826 206513 200325 139949 225903 200564 208341 127476 165225 367239 351696 824532 529120 560011 120829 112586 539405 146362 137454 76727 311795 374310 305118 154892 258613 36006 103469 69963 759674 155724 Pine 292 387 252 142 195 104 69 310 71 449 119 146 576 200 683 566 300 81 27 606 133 131 81 531 655 298 364 322 110 60 66 966 266 Pulp Hdwd Non Pulp Hdwd 19 110 23 56 319 91 1 20 91 152 138 101 176 163 852 835 935 20 113 195 148 65 11 209 817 289 13 23 48 70 15 824 5 30 46 33 153 216 100 Total Hdwd Total 139 18 21 51 86 90 133 331 87 453 19 40 85 22 182 77 136 318 151 71 204 8 31 24 225 92 49 156 56 209 535 191 29 159 109 173 189 187 266 296 1183 922 1388 39 153 280 170 247 345 1135 440 84 227 56 101 39 1049 97 341 643 308 361 730 295 98 469 180 622 308 333 842 496 1866 1488 1688 120 180 886 303 378 169 876 1790 738 448 549 166 161 95 2015 363 A lot XTable 1 Area Sawlog and Cordwood Volume by Counties Georgia 1946Continued Area in acres i Sawlog Net Volume in thousand board feet Intl I log rule Cordwood Net Volume in thousand standard cords County Dist No Total Forest Percent Pine Hardwood 1 Total NonPine Pulp Pulp Total Total Hdwd Hdwd Hdwd Coffee 8 392320 265993 68 332631 46010 378641 470 137 54 191 661 Colquitt 2 360320 156379 43 330797 27088 357885 191 48 3 51 242 Columbia 10 197120 147643 75 82619 96571 179190 207 288 70 358 566 Cook 8 4 6 149120 283520 201600 97823 187974 142531 66 66 71 204228 204036 134264 40838 30932 15151 245066 234968 149415 81 248 242 178 125 114 71 103 57 249 228 171 330 475 413 Coweta Crawford Crisp 3 7 9 190720 105600 136320 77432 90499 113827 41 86 84 137083 41918 117665 26037 16981 58590 163120 58899 176255 74 77 271 70 9 87 12 154 318 82 163 405 156 240 676 Dade Dawson Decatur 2 392320 266385 68 374195 42039 416234 344 135 67 202 546 DeKalb 9 172160 111560 65 161934 92527 254461 317 84 102 186 503 Dodge 3 3 2 320000 252800 210560 177280 96064 100016 55 38 48 419411 160723 107743 56725 44549 35032 476136 205272 142775 393 115 77 157 97 116 31 27 137 188 124 253 581 239 330 Dooly Dougherty Douglas 7 129280 87393 68 74629 15162 89791 153 9 46 65 208 Early 2 336640 175389 52 168767 57816 226583 121 158 91 249 370 Echols 8 272000 247520 91 379502 96542 476044 515 653 80 733 1248 Effingham 1 307200 258662 84 354494 110096 464590 433 857 310 1167 1600 Elbert 10 1 233600 439040 155578 280986 67 64 118800 258155 101777 32875 220577 291030 207 157 89 65 73 2 162 67 369 224 Emanuel Evans 1 9 119040 256000 79757 210J53 67 83 108695 218066 14084 108583 122779 326649 122 503 104 162 16 590 120 752 242 1255 Fannin Fayette 4 127360 72595 57 99031 16616 115647 72 44 35 79 151 Floyd 7 9 10 328960 155520 172160 235206 93468 85736 72 60 50 309321 100384 97706 52945 53691 50530 362266 154075 148236 819 140 77 23 161 34 227 202 10 250 363 44 1069 503 121 Forsyth Franklin Fulton 9 9 6 339840 280960 91520 217158 239173 51983 64 85 57 258050 255829 44980 152554 103941 37522 410604 359770 82502 295 482 83 33 71 114 94 336 71 127 407 185 422 889 268 Gilmer Glascock Glynn 8 7 297600 229120 250859 146179 84 64 167323 125438 90686 41420 258009 166858 137 239 113 22 21 60 134 82 271 321 Gordon Grady 2 10 298880 258560 176040 206848 59 80 372516 222557 1 37516 32008 410031 254565 365 371 193 58 48 41 241 99 606 470 Greene 1 9 Table 1 Area Sawlog and Cordwood Volume by Counties Georgia 1946 Continued Area in acres Sawlog Net Volume in thousand board feet Intl log rule Cordwood Net Volume in thousand standard cords County Dist No Total Forest Percent Pine Hardwood Total Pine Pulp Hdwd NonPulp Hdwd Total Hdwd Total Gwinnett 9 279680 154943 55 273488 71841 345329 227 94 170 264 491 Habersham 9 181120 136383 75 168715 76061 244776 207 55 176 231 438 Hall 9 272640 190848 70 204844 108064 312908 243 316 370 686 929 Hancock 6 310400 222867 72 169620 137462 307082 413 614 379 993 1406 Haralson 7 182400 130416 72 116577 57770 174347 136 51 101 152 288 Harris 3 10 302720 165120 202822 68360 67 41 280319 55137 100376 51600 380695 106737 553 74 115 38 56 27 171 65 724 Hart 139 Heard 4 4 193280 211840 134330 106344 70 50 101206 111275 64259 90630 165465 201905 228 90 85 14 76 37 161 51 389 Henry 141 Houston 3 8 9 243200 238080 215680 130112 135229 121212 54 57 56 160765 175934 160299 78825 17253 74507 239590 193187 234806 146 244 218 193 147 61 79 26 66 272 173 127 418 Irwin 417 Jackson 345 Jasper 6 240000 174720 73 172423 30755 203178 349 210 105 315 664 Jeff Davis 8 211840 174980 83 158125 33461 191586 273 74 53 127 400 Jefferson 6 340480 186583 55 224872 101843 326715 317 373 368 741 1058 Jenkins 1 224640 117487 52 113589 31707 145296 157 185 63 248 405 Johnson 6 200320 95152 48 142565 67335 209900 192 241 113 354 546 Jones 6 4 257280 115840 200164 67419 78 58 195961 67021 102210 46989 298171 114010 280 70 520 51 205 27 725 78 1005 Lamar 148 Lanier 8 117120 80579 69 135372 51029 186401 174 133 36 169 343 Laurens 6 519040 238239 46 498489 82253 580742 471 253 96 349 820 Lee 3 1 229120 343040 107228 247975 47 72 158497 443379 94969 40048 253466 483427 107 565 124 320 62 134 186 454 293 Liberty 1019 Lincoln 10 1 163200 257920 118973 239608 73 93 90398 265626 75414 46247 165812 311873 300 489 180 32 70 37 250 69 550 Long 558 Lowndes 8 327680 212664 65 377295 68061 446356 367 499 219 718 1085 Lumpkin 9 186880 165015 88 196830 85682 282512 290 65 283 348 638 Macon 3 10 3 257920 179840 233600 121738 92977 147402 47 52 63 142511 80745 75311 82188 49652 19201 224699 130397 94512 102 146 198 162 55 345 80 27 161 242 82 506 344 Madison 228 Marion 704 McDuffie 10 168320 110418 66 82891 65534 148425 273 174 68 242 515 Mclntosh 1 306560 257387 84 176825 40538 217363 232 23 10 33 265 Meriwether 4 319360 187145 59 197759 88008 285767 308 140 38 178 486 w 1 9 v I 10 5 TablLArea Sawlog and Cordwood Volume by Counties Georgia 1946Continued County Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee Newton Oconee Oglethorpe Paulding Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Dist No 2 2 6 1 10 7 3 4 10 10 7 3 9 8 4 7 3 6 3 9 3 10 9 3 1 2 4 9 3 3 4 Area in acres Sawlog Net Volume i in thousand board feet Intl i log rule Cordwood Net Volume in thousand standard cords Total 183680 327040 255360 151680 227840 218880 142080 174720 119040 278400 203520 96640 144000 218880 147200 199680 162560 224000 109440 240000 279040 208640 81920 103680 416640 177280 128640 115200 296320 314880 249600 Forest 102126 148476 203777 91008 149007 171821 103576 98892 65115 187085 144499 36627 111466 162847 71686 130790 83881 179424 76061 215040 146496 137494 44564 55572 272066 106191 72810 86170 195571 137288 208915 Per cent 56 45 80 60 65 79 73 57 55 67 71 38 77 74 49 66 52 80 70 90 52 66 54 54 65 60 57 75 66 44 84 Pine 107448 302001 170058 239228 148291 145405 217510 144382 91937 156788 111214 33157 110561 153214 69151 97100 174163 202031 95835 268540 183589 74986 64054 46883 306989 80186 65144 111035 306472 200511 239296 Hard wood 17983 21222 29976 89142 30039 43144 68604 45486 35735 63518 46897 4336 55978 18538 19873 38721 36513 106686 29791 162818 61613 73115 32861 38359 176940 14423 22811 67148 118797 125625 113266 Total 125431 323223 200034 328370 178330 188549 286114 189868 127672 220306 158111 37493 166539 171752 89024 135821 210676 308717 125626 431358 245202 148101 96915 85242 483929 94609 87955 178183 425269 326136 352562 Pine 85 167 346 160 249 284 239 113 98 502 209 112 241 267 59 173 232 377 121 312 228 202 48 67 315 61 66 264 475 127 450 Pulp Hdwd 25 84 234 155 60 23 126 56 59 144 14 37 14 119 46 11 72 647 200 28 405 15 30 129 1142 3 51 103 489 167 433 Non Pulp Hdwd Total Hdwd 75 63 82 26 66 70 60 52 47 62 92 5 176 63 13 73 79 345 40 194 78 168 29 35 753 21 5 152 134 77 136 100 147 316 181 126 93 186 108 106 206 106 42 189 182 59 84 151 992 240 222 483 183 59 164 1895 24 56 255 623 244 568 Total 185 314 662 341 376 377 425 221 204 708 316 154 430 449 118 257 383 1369 361 534 711 385 107 231 2210 85 121 519 1098 371 1018 11Table 1 Area Sawlog and Cordwood Volume by Counties Georgia 1946Continued 1 Area in acres Sawlog Net Volume in thousand board feet Intl i log rule il ordwood Net Volume l thousand standard cords V County Dist No Ai Total Forest Percent Pine Hardwood Total Pine Pulp Hdwd NonPulp Hdwd Total Hdwd Total Taliaferro 10 124800 94598 76 94323 44013 138336 226 221 156 377 603 Tattnall 1 315520 241057 76 276741 34294 311035 346 89 51 140 486 v Xj Taylor 3 8 3 2 2 1 9 1 4 3 257920 281600 210560 347520 170240 236160 110080 124160 286080 187520 156815 197120 76854 197391 90568 146892 87509 65929 210565 93010 61 70 36 57 53 62 79 53 74 50 33672 365243 78132 409137 180799 263765 112200 152940 242507 174761 16291 77332 52051 32316 14945 47613 69006 27384 153469 15219 49963 442575 130183 441453 195744 311378 181206 180324 395976 189980 146 346 70 209 68 245 132 79 489 90 414 259 92 136 33 75 12 40 164 41 77 486 37 65 4 22 80 3 60 7 491 745 129 201 37 97 92 43 224 48 637 1091 199 410 105 342 224 122 713 138 Telfair Ao TerrelL 221 Thomas yy Tift Toombs Towns V Treutlen I r Troup Turner Twiggs 6 9 4 233600 204160 213760 174499 164352 163313 75 81 76 150767 218941 188024 143853 129601 33899 294620 348542 221923 262 247 158 583 23 120 250 150 19 833 173 139 1095 420 297 Union ty Upson Walker 7 286720 202711 71 148614 49816 198430 223 28 281 309 532 Walton 10 211200 107078 51 182884 48516 231400 141 125 116 241 382 7 Ware 8 10 6 583680 181760 431360 313436 113418 259679 54 62 60 318093 104832 285228 15049 88094 174841 333142 192926 460069 624 319 371 70 332 727 90 235 318 160 567 1045 784 886 1416 i Warren vl Washington d Wayne 8 413440 362173 88 291692 48189 339881 190 25 15 40 230 fri atoll Webster 3 124800 71386 57 98401 45650 144051 109 195 57 252 361 Wl Wheeler 1 195840 133759 68 234484 87199 321683 220 162 41 203 423 7 White 9 155520 128460 83 183973 101298 285271 193 211 117 328 521 Whitfield 7 179840 112220 62 86459 65160 151619 171 16 84 100 271 M Wilcox 3 245760 134922 55 319102 54651 373753 187 109 21 130 317 n Wilkes 10 302080 208737 69 196811 104249 301060 730 259 127 386 1116 Wilkinson 6 293120 225409 77 203770 162694 366464 361 902 293 1195 1556 Worth 2 371200 191539 52 397716 36299 434015 155 79 7 86 241 Total II 37680640 24714613 66 30243302 9439467 39682769 40137 28160 17615 45775 85912 A Does not include 464349 acres in the Okefenokee Swamp 12 LTable 2 Area Sawlog and Cordwood Volume by Districts Georgia 1946 District No1 Area in acres Sawlog Net Volume in thousand board feet Intl i log rule Cordwood Net Volume in thousand standard cords Total Forest Percent Pine Hard Total wood Pine Pulp Hdwd NonPulp Hdwd Total Hdwd Total 1 5181440 3639868 70 5193394 1214018 6407412 5859 6842 2683 9525 15384 2 3906560 2102706 54 3409434 437657 3847091 2209 1341 905 2246 4455 3 5029760 2751903 52 4000468 1275861 5276329 4320 4188 1414 5602 9922 4 2983680 1884482 63 1984075 799241 2783316 2618 1427 824 2251 4869 6 4070400 2655324 65 2943452 1343371 4286823 4524 6089 3033 9122 13646 7 2901120 2000316 69 1734377 563560 2297937 3504 254 1565 1819 5323 8 6277120 46403792 74 5448719 1018020 6466739 7749 4116 1883 5999 13748 9 4058880 2945450 72 3633313 1755733 5389046 5124 1726 3936 5662 10786 10 3271680 2094185 64 1896070 1032006 2928076 4230 2177 1372 3549 7779 Total 37680640 24714613 66 30243302 9439467 39682769 40137 28160 17615 45775 85912 1 There is no district 5 All districts coincide with Congressional districts except district 9 which includes Congress ional districts 9 and 5 2 Does not include 464349 acres in the Okefenokee Swamp 9 14 Table 3 Total Growing Stock by Districts Georgia 1946 District2 Corclwood Net Volume Standard Cords Pine Thousand cords Hardwood3 Thousand cords Total Thousand cords r1 16246 11953 28199 2 9028 3121 12149 12321 8154 20475 4 6586 3849 10435 6 10411 11809 22220 7 6973 2946 9919 8 18646 8035 26681 9 12391 9173 21564 10 8022 5613 13635 State Total 100624 64653 165277 1 Includes bark but not cull tops or limbs Includes all trees of cordwood and sawtimber size 2 There is no district 5 All districts coincide with Congressional districts except district 9 which includes Congressional dictricts 9 and 5 3 Includes cypress 15Table 4 Average Volume per Acre by Districts Georgia 1946 Forest Land Average Volume per Acre Dist1 Sawlog Net Volume2 Intl log rule Cord wood Net Volume3 Standard cords Total Growing Stock4 Standard cords Pine Hdwd6 Total Pine Hdwd5 Total Pine Hdwd6 Total Acres b f b f b f cds cds cds cds cds cds 1 3639868 1427 334 1761 16 26 42 44 33 77 2 2102706 1621 208 1829 10 11 21 43 15 58 3 2751903 1454 464 1918 16 20 36 45 30 75 4 1884482 1053 424 1477 14 12 26 35 20 55 6 2655324 1109 506 1615 17 34 51 39 44 83 7 2000316 867 282 1149 18 09 27 35 15 50 8 4640379 1174 219 1393 17 13 30 40 17 57 9 2945450 1234 596 1830 17 19 36 42 31 73 10 2094185 905 493 1398 20 17 37 38 27 65 State Avg 1224 382 1606 16 18 34 41 26 67 1 There is no district 5 All districts coincide with Congressional districts except district 9 which includes Congressional districts 9 and 5 2 Sawtimber only 3 Includes bark but not cull tops limbs or sawtimber 4 All trees including sawtimber Includes bark but not cull tops or limbs s Includes cypress g f w 16 t Table 5 Ownership by Districts January 1 1945 District No2 Total Area Publicly Owned Privately Owned acres acres acres Over 5000 Acres 10005000 Acres Under 1000 Acres 1 5181440 193580 682382 1021997 3283481 2 3906560 5528 433752 832857 2634423 3 5029760 184921 189170 1089709 3565960 4 2983680 6748 43800 354300 2578832 G 4070400 128716 146385 818400 2976999 7 2901120 116568 107500 213900 2463052 8 6277120 340851 1738293 1078253 3119723 9 4058880 580192 84100 255200 3139388 10 3271680 92677 87100 459800 2632103 Totals 37680640 1649781 3512482 6124416 26393961 1 Includes forest and nonforest land 2 There is no district 5 All districts coincide with Congressional districts except district 9 which includes Congressional districts 9 and 5 17Table 6 Comparison of State Forestry Programs Alabama Florida Georgia South Carolina and Louisiana 1946 Funds Available for Forestry Forest Acreage State State Funds Federal Funds County Funds Other Funds Total Funds StateOwned Forest Land Alabama Florida Georgia South Carolina Louisiana 80000 250000 168207 682722 299495 230599 384937 210000 352593 202717 55626 286791 225000 0 0 404837 796372 9702 0 0 812500 1001365 612909 1015315 585212 18877700 22000000 25000000 11570000 16000000 172946 2060353 380003 1486183 10000 1 Severance tax receipts 2 Receipts from state forests 3 Mostly leased from the federal government 4 Receipts from private funds if 9 f 18 171 A f b STF hb Oft ftSoo f i 3 5 A 4 b