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)re N. C . trees cut than grew wysiwyg: //3 /htJ .4//www . charlotte. com/071 Stimber.htm <br /> Fame policy to protect streams and wildlife , and for tax incentives to reward <br /> ` Faith - . <br /> Ga'rdeningIF I <br /> conservation . <br /> F. Home <br /> Entertainment The report, compiled by the U . S . Forest Service ' s Southern Research <br /> Arts IF <br /> Station in Asheville , is the first update of forest ownership , timber <br /> Book rev :. I F volumes , growth and removal rates since 1990 . Forests in other N . C . <br /> Travel <br /> IF <br /> regions will be inventoried over the next two years . <br /> IF <br /> Site index The coastal plain is the most intensively logged part of North Carolina, <br /> City Guide with most of the state ' s paper mills and large sawmills located there . <br /> Contact Pp g <br /> us <br /> 61 <br /> Feedback International Paper, the state' s largest private landowner, owns <br /> charlotte com 540 , 000 acres in the southern coastal plain . <br /> j, R;: <br /> 4IF 1 <br /> Forest agency officials will discuss the report at a meeting today in <br /> ! Clinton . Among its findings : <br /> yy <br /> Ma1`+ .t a Y++ ' <br /> 11 t <br /> It <br /> FIFFJ. 04 ,� TIFF <br /> Net annual growth in pines increased 15 percent, while harvests rose <br /> F 4 . 1 FIT IF 41 percent . Among hardwoods , net growth dropped 34 percent, mostly <br /> because of storm damage , while harvests went up 21 percent . <br /> j A- =J :. �, - Saplings 5 inches or less in diameter, springing up after trees were <br /> to gg Y ed or downed b storms cover more than half the 5 million acres <br /> of timberland in the 21 southeastern counties . <br /> IF IF <br /> About one-third of the region' s pine trees grew in . plantations , which <br /> produce more wood per acre but can't match the biological diversity of <br /> IF natural stands , up from 24 percent in 1990 . <br /> IF <br /> IF <br /> TIFF IF : T <br /> State Forester Stan Adams predicts forest growth and harvests will <br /> IF balance out over the long term . Young trees will add a flush of growth <br /> IF <br /> IF , IT <br /> I IF <br /> over the next decade, he saidIF <br /> The southern coastal plain has only about 8 percent less timber acreage <br /> 61 <br /> IF <br /> now than in 1938 when the first inventories were done . <br /> 1 : 1 IF <br /> IF I <br /> " We 're in this for the long haul , " said Tommy Tew, land manager for <br /> Corbett Timber Co . in Wilmington . " Too many people look at a <br /> snapshot of the world . " <br /> IF <br /> IF I <br /> This snapshot bodes ill for reports from the remaining regions of the <br /> IF <br /> state , said Trevor FitzGibbon of the Dogwood Alliance , an <br /> environmental group . <br /> I IF <br /> IF <br /> The alliance called for a six -month moratorium on expanding chip and <br /> IF <br /> pulp mills , and joined two other groups in asking for development of a <br /> F . state plan to protect forests , water quality and biological diversity. <br /> IF I <br /> IF I <br /> IF <br /> Few state regulations govern forestry. While loggers aren't permitted <br /> PF <br /> to send sediment into streams and rivers , the industry is excused from <br /> F IF IF I <br /> IF I IF <br /> prescribed erosion- control practices that developers are supposed to <br />