Abstract
The southern forests were slow in attracting the attention of commercial lumbermen. Not until the great white pine forests of the Lake States neared exhaustion did the industry turn to the yellow pine stands of the South. The forests of the midSouth states were merely the western reaches of the great pine forest that stretched westward from the Carolinas. It blanketed most of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas, and extended into east Texas and even into southeastern Oklahoma. To the early observer it was most impressive, and one pioneer forester described its western limits in almost poetic terms:
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