The Longleaf Pine Forests of the Southeast: Requiem or Renaissance?

VAST FORESTS OF LONGLEAF PINE (P1M.B PALUSTRIS) GREETED the first European settlers of the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain of the Carolinas and Georgia. At that time, this species may have dominated as much as 92 mil l ion acres throughout the southeastern United Srates (Frost 1933). Only about 20 million acres of longlraf pine forest were left by 1935 (Wahlenberg 1946). These forests declined to less than 5 million acrrs by 1975, and within the next decade to 3.8 million acres (Kelly and Bechtold 1330). A more recent update (USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis, unpubl. data) puts the total at about 3.2 million acres. Losses since rhen have likely i-cduced remaining longleaf forests to less than 3 million acres.

• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Journal of Forests

• Publication date

  1995-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/jof/93.11.38
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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