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Access for Tree Plantations

To minimize future losses, landowners planting trees should plan for access and firebreaks. Access to timberland is urgently needed for fire control and for economy in management and logging. The advice and assistance of a trained forester should be obtained in laying out an access system for timberland. Forest regeneration has grown to impressive proportions in the South, with several million acres now in tree plantations. Gone are the days of the vast cutover and exposed timberlands of the twenties. What is remembered of this growth are the CCC camps bristling with young men planting trees, the many tree-planting crews of lumber and pulp mills, the interest of the average landowner in forest land development, the development of machines and techniques to plant and seed the forest land more quickly, and the growth of young stands of trees to pulpwood and saw timber.


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Author(s): Billy Gaddis

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 64 (1964)