Arkansas forest resource patterns
Authors: | Charles C. Van Sickle |
Year: | 1970 |
Type: | Resource Bulletin |
Station: | Southern Research Station |
Source: | Resour. Bull. SO-24. New Orleans, Louisiana: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 36 p. |
Abstract
A new forest survey of Arkansas reveals that forests cover 55 percent of the land in the State. In all, 18.2 million acres are available for and capable of growing industrial timber.Substantial change has occurred in the timber resource. In the 10 years preceding the new survey, forest area declined by one-eighth . Clearing for cropland and pasture claimed more than 2 million acres. Another one-half million acres were yielded to urban and other uses.