Timber Products Production In West Virginia 1965 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Timber Products Production in West Virginia, 1965 Since the period of heavy cutting in the late 1800's and early l9oo's, West Virginia's forest resource has made an impressive comeback. Today wood in West Virginia is growing about twice as fast as it is being cut. According to the 1961 forest survey of West Virginia,1 the annual growth of growing stock2 in the State totaled 370 million cubic feet while timber cut totaled 119 million cubic feet. More than 1 billion board feet of sawtimber is being added to the resource each year while less than billion is being removed. This lower level of cutting, a rapid rate of farm abandonment with a consequent increase in forest acreage, and the widening application of forest-management practices have rejuvenated the State's forest resource. Thus today the average timber stand in West Virginia is young and vigorous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.