Southern Research Station

Title: Forest statistics for Central Tennessee counties - 1989

Author: May, Dennis M.; Vissage, John S.

Date: 1989

Source: Resour. Bull. SO-144. New Orleans, Louisiana: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 42 p.

Station ID: RB-SO-144

Description: The 1989 survey of the Central Unit of Tennessee revealed the following:

• Timberland now covers 2,416.3 thousand acres, an increase of 14 percent since 1980.
• Ninety-five percent of the unitÂ’s timberland is privately owned.
• Cedar and mixed cedar-hardwood stands occupy 456.1 thousand acres of timberland.
• Oak-hickory forests account for 79 percent of the unitÂ’s timberland.
• Area in sawtimber-sized stands increased by 250 thousand acres with most of the increase in oak-hickory forest types.
• The number of hardwood growing-stock trees fell 17 percent, while softwood numbers increased 26 percent.
• Hardwood growing-stock volume climbed 55 percent to 2,304.7 million cubic feet and softwood growing-stock volume climbed 74 percent to 138.1 million cubic feet.
• Softwood sawtimber volumes more than doubled and hardwood sawtimber volumes increased by two-thirds since 1980.
• Hardwood sawtimber quality declined since 1980.
Net growth increased for both growing stock and sawtimber despite a doubling in mortality.
• Removals increased for both growing stock and sawtimber but were concentrated in the sawtimber portion of the inventory.
• Growth exceeds removals by roughly 3 to 1.

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May, Dennis M.; Vissage, John S.  1989.  Forest statistics for Central Tennessee counties - 1989.   Resour. Bull. SO-144. New Orleans, Louisiana: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 42 p.