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  • HERITAGE OF TREES CAROLINA FORESTS — PAST AND FUTURE If a forfst map had been made of the Carolinas when the first white settlement landed on the shores of Albemarle Sound, it would have shown a continuous forest from the seaside to far beyond the mountains where the Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia state lines are now drawn. Beginning with the long- leaf pine of the flats and sand hills along the coastal plain, unbroken forests extended through the clay uplands of the Piedmont, changing here to close-ranked oak and other hardwood species mixed with short-leaf or yellow pine. These primeval timberlands spread through the lower mountains, where the percentages of the more valuable hardwoods increased and where the northern white pine and hemlock formed a profitable mixture, and extended into the highest hills, whose dark sum- THE LONG-LEAF PINE It once covered all the coastal plain from New Bern to the Savannah River BY J. S. HOLMES STATE FORESTER OF NORTH CAROLINA mits were covered with spruce and balsam. There were practically no areas destitute of timber except the salt marshes bordering the sounds. After three hundred years of settlement the forest picture is considerably changed, but even yet there is little more than one-third of the total area of these two states under cultivation. The timber- lands have been cut more and more closely until much of the area has little or no tree- growth upon it. Most of it, however, still bears enough timber to warrant the assertion that it will sooner or later, perhaps considerably later, return to a thrifty forest if fires can be kept out. While nearly all of the coastal plain region from New Bern south to the Savannah River was once covered with long-leaf pine, at the present time the second growth of aaajaajajiji. ± _-**"d^ ^ta w *- w*r ■fetes*. ^C": fKlattf^HHEafll ■ ■■', ; .: '* ^vSJ2«rV-'' * *v ^^^^^m -." A.-B. PHOTO SERVICE A REMNANT OF THE SPRUCE AND BALSAM FOREST scatt9red Once it covered the Black ^™£™^»>* ^ «. ^ ^^ ^ ^ 325
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