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### The southern Appalachian forests

#### Professional Paper 37

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#### Abstract

In examining so large an area it was found that the best results could be 
obtained by traversing the roads and trails and making side trips wherever 
necessary to cover intermediate territory. Upon the topographic maps of the 
Geological Survey were drawn the outlines of cleared land and the several 
classes of forest land as they were passed. At the same time ocular estimates of 
the average stand and the proportion of the species composing it were made, 
checked occasionally by actual measurements on small representative areas. After 
the outlines of the several classes of land were drawn the areas were computed 
from the map, and the yield obtained by multiplying the number of acres of each 
class by the average stand. The yield is stated in feet B. M. of log timber, and 
cords of small wood (which includes all wood not classed as log timber). The 
estimates of log timber were based upon the closest cutting in practice in the 
United States, and include a great deal of material that is not now salable on 
the stump, because of the difficulty of transportation. In fact, a very small 
proportion of the amount estimated (probably not over 10 per cent) is 
merchantable under present conditions, though all would be merchantable if cheap 
transportation should make it accessible.

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