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Pre-European Settlement Up to the 1930s

Historical descriptions of the extent and condition of southern forests present at this time come from anecdotal accounts and observations. This information covers the period from pre-European settlement up to the 1930s, the beginning of forest inventories in the South. Estimates of forest land area for the years 1630 and 1907 were taken from the 2001 RPA report (Smith and others 2001).