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Timberland downtown?: Southern forest resources along the urban-rural continum
| Author: |
Deforest, Christopher E.; Harris, Thomas G., Jr.; Cubbage, Frederick W.; Nelson, Arthur C. |
| Date: |
1991 |
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In: Mevgel, D.L.; Tew, D.T., eds. Ecological Land Classification: Applications to Identify the Productive Potential of Southern Forests: Proceedings of a Symposium; 1991 January 7-9; Charlotte, NC. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station |
| Abstract: |
An Urban-Rural Continuum provides a simple, practical way to classify forest resources and estimate the size and extent of the urban forest. Metropolitan counties contain over 26 percent of the Southeast's timberland acreage- about 28 million acres- and over 26 percent of its standing sawtimber and softwood and hardwood growing stocks. A ten-point Urban-Rural Continuum which codes counties from most highly urbanized to most rural allows even more precise stratification of timber resources. |
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