Forest statistics for Arkansas' delta counties - 1995

Abstract

The primary objective of the surveys is to periodically inventory and evaluate all forests and their related resources. These multiresource data help provide a basis for formulating forest policies and programs and for the orderly development and use of the resources. This report deals only with the extent and condition of forest land, associated timber volumes, and rates of timber growth, mortality, and removals. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Midsouth FIA (MIDSO-FIA) unit gratefully acknowledges the cooperation and assistance provided by the Arkansas Forestry Commission in collecting field data. Appreciation is also expressed for the cooperation of other public agencies and private landowners in providing access to measurement plots. The following members of the MIDSO-FIA staff completed the field measurements:

Forest resources of Arkansas, 1995

“…Numerous publications on findings from the seventh survey of Arkansas have already been published: four forest survey unit reports (Rosson and others 1995, Rosson and London 1997, Rosson and others 1997a, 1997b) and a county statistical report (London 1997). Some estimates in this report may not match those previously published due to corrections in the data.…”

Proceedings of the symposium on Arkansas forests: a conference on the results of the recent forest survey of Arkansas; 1997 May 30-31; North Little Rock, Arkansas

“…The author defines "growth surplus" (called "net change" in FIA publications) as the difference between growth and removals (see core tables 20 and 23, Rosson and London 1997a). For purposes of this paper, growth, removals, and growth surplus were converted from the total region or statewide volume means presented in FIA publications to mean volumes per acre by dividing the total timberland volume data by timberland acreage in the respective sector (see core table 3 in Rosson and London 1997a).…”

A southern region conference on technology transfer and extension

“…Although most of the bottomland hardwood forests have long-since been converted to row crops, about 2.1 million acres in the Delta, or about 23 percent of the land, remain forested. Over 90 percent of these forests are oak-gum-cypress, oak-hickory, and other hardwoods, and 70 percent are owned by nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners (Rosson andothers 1997, Stanturf andothers 2000).…”