Site Index Comparisons for Several Tree Species in the Virginia-Carolina Piedmont.

摘要

The Piedmont of southern Virginia and the Carolinas contains thousands of acres of pine-hardwood forests. Forest managers in the Piedmont (primarily farmers with small woodland holdings) are faced with the problem of profitably managing stands of timber with a gradually increasing hardwood component. This job is formidable because hardwoods generally do not have wood properties desirable in mass-demand products, such as house framing and kraft paper.These multiplying hardwoods, added to an already over-abundant supply of low-grade trees throughout the eastern United States, constitute a major problem in forest management and utilization.