Presented April 11th, 2003 in the Symposium “Forest Fragmentation and Biodiversity in the Southeastern United States,” part of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists, Arlington, VA.
	Increasing population has been one of the most important processes affecting the South in recent decades. In concert with fluxes of land into and out of  agriculture it is an important determinant of forest area and the arrangement of those forests on the landscape.
	Knowing the patterns of forest fragmentation across the region is important to researchers looking for representative study sites and for conservation groups looking to conserve diminishing areas of interior forest habitat. What would be even more important is to know not just the current patterns of fragmentation, but also those we expect to see in the future. This forms the focus of the study I’ll talk about today.