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Title: Timber trees and forests of North Carolina
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 Ashe, W. W. (William Willard), 1872-1932, joint author
Subjects: Trees Forests and forestry
Publisher: Winston, M. I. & J. C. Stewart, public printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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On the driest soils, however, theshort-leaf finally outgrows the loblolly and prevails. Much ofthis pine is of good stand and has tall and straight bodies freefrom limbs, and this is more true of the loblolly pine groves thanof those of the short-leaf; but much more of it has been thinnedby repeated fires, and is capable of yielding but little wood exceptfor fuel. The floor is generally covered with a thick sod ofbroom-grass. Only a few broad-leaf trees appear spontaneouslybeneath these pines; those which do occur are chiefly post oak,white hickory and dogwood. In Anson county there remains but little of the original forest.North of AVadesboro the soil is a gray, sandy loam, rolling andmoist, covered with a generally compact growth of the loblollypine, which is of fairly uniform size ; high poles or small-sizedmill-timber, where large tracts of cotton lands were simultaneouslyabandoned in the period between 1861 and 1868, and have not N. C. GEOLOGICAIi SURVEY. BULLETIN 6. PLATE XXII.
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MIXED PINE AND HARDWOOD FOREST OF THE PIEDMONT PLATEAU REGION IMPROVEMENT OF THE FORESTS OF THE SANDSTONE BELT. 198 since been re-cleared. Beneath this loblolly pine there is very-little hardwood growth. South of Wadesboro the topography ismore rugged, and the soils are stiffer, and along the crests andnpper slopes often shallow. Everywhere it has been badly eroded.The short-leaf pine holds possession of the large extent of oldiields, with, in some places, a small proportion of loblolly pine inter-mixed. The growth is open and stunted and in many localitiesdying out. There is little underwood and a consequently poorfloor. To the eastward along the Pee Dee river, lie the lightloams of the long-leaf pine belt, on which at the present time inAnson county, there are not over 3,000 acres of good standing-pine. The remainder of the long-leaf pine lands in this county,as has been said, are covered, where the soils are dry, with smallbroad-leaf trees, chiefly post oak and black-jack oak ; or

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