Southern Research Station

Title: Forest statistics for North Alabama counties - 1990

Author: McWilliams, William H.; Duncan, K.L.; Vissage, John S.

Date: 1990

Source: Resour. Bull. SO-149. New Orleans, Louisiana: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 38 p.

Station ID: RB-SO-149

Description: The 1990 forest inventory of North Alabama revealed the following:

• Timberland area is 2,105.1 thousand acres, a decrease of 4 percent.
• The distribution of live-tree volume shows that the large increases that too place in all but the 6-inch class between 1972 and 1982 have abated. Past declines in the 6-inch class have continued for both hardwoods and softwoods.
• Live-wood volume totals 2,515.0 million cubic feet, about the same as in 1982.
• Hardwood sawtimber volume is 4,992.7 million board feet, an increase of 16 percent.
• Net growth is nearly double the removals of live hardwoods.
• Removals of live softwoods increased by 42 percent, and now represent nearly half of total removals.
• The growth-to-removals relationship is tight for live softwoods, with removals exceeding growth in six of the 10 counties.

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McWilliams, William H.; Duncan, K.L.; Vissage, John S.  1990.  Forest statistics for North Alabama counties - 1990.   Resour. Bull. SO-149. New Orleans, Louisiana: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 38 p.