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-NATIONAL FORESTS IN TEXAS 53
Annual Growth and Annual Harvest
of Growing Stock in East Texas 1975-1983
Growth Harvest Harvest
Species (Millions (Millions Per Cent
Year Cu. Ft.) Cu. Ft.) lof Growth
1975 Pine......... I 458.4 389.3 85
Hardwood .. 208.5 72.6 35
1976 Pine......... I 461.2 432.8 94
Hardwood ... . 215.7 80.6 37
1977 Pine......... . 461.9 453.9 98
Hardwood ... . 222.7 89.1 40
1978 Pine........ 461.6 475.4 103
Hardwood ... 229.1 103.1 45
1979 Pine......... . 461.3 465.1 100
Hardwood ..... 236.4 102.4 43
1980 Pine......... 461.5 446.8 97
Hardwood . . . . 243.5 109.6 45
1981 Pine......... 463.2 418.3 90
Hardwood .... 251.1 99.6 40
1982 Pine ......... -466.5 397.9 85
Hardwood .. . 259.5 89.2 34
1983 Pine......... 467.8 490.1 105
Hardwood .... 267.2 148.3 56percent of the total treated volume in 1979. By 1983
treated lumber and plywood increased to over 58 per-
cent of the total volume.
Due to the dramatic increase in harvest, 1983 saw
Texas return once again to a growth/harvest deficit
situation. In Texas more wood was cut in 1983 than was
grown. The marked increase in the pine harvest rate to
about 105 percent of growth is indicative of how readily
the Texas forest products industry can react to improv-
ing economic conditions.
A total 226,613 acres were planted with pine seed-
lings in 1983. About 146,376 acres were planted on forest
industry land, 52,664 acres on public land and 27,573
acres on nonindustrial private land. Most nonindustrial
private reforestation and timber stand improvement
(TSI) activities were funded by the cost-sharing pro-
grams available to Texas forest landowners. The feder-
ally funded Forestry Incentives Program (FIP) provided
cost shares of $717,030, which helped defray the expense
=of 15,624 acres of tree planting and 3,570 acres of TSI.
The Texas Reforestation Foundation, Inc. (TRe) is a non-
profit corporation funded by all of the major forest
products companies in Texas and several in Oklahoma,
Arkansas and Louisiana. TRe provided cost shares of
S.,42,677, which helped fund 8,894 acres of tree planting
and 1,033 acres of TSI. There were 3,915 acres of tree
planting and 2,256 acres of TSI accomplished by nonin-
dustrial private forest landowners with no cost-share
assistance.National Forests in Texas
Four national forests and two national grasslands,
administered as the national forests in Texas, have a
total net acreage of 703,193 and a gross area within the'
proclaimed boundaries of 1,915,036 acres. They cover
partof 15Texascounties, as follows:
ANGEUNA NATIONAL FOREST-Angelina County,
58,842 acres; Jasper, 19,733; Nacogdoches, 9,542; San Au-
gustine, 66,799. Total, 154,916.
DAVY CROCKETT NATIONAL FOREST-Houston
County, 93,583 acres; Trinity, 67,910. Total, 161,493.
SABINE NATIONAL FOREST-Jasper County, 64
acres; Sabine, 114,498; San Augustine, 4,317; Shelby,
67,762; Newton, 1,579. Total, 188,220.
SAM HOUSTON NATIONAL FOREST-Montgomery
County, 47,358 acres; San Jacinto, 59,596; Walker, 53,490.
Total, 160,444.
CADDO NATIONAL GRASSLAND-Fannin County,
17,796 acres. Total, 17,796.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON NATIONAL GRASSLAND-
Montague County, 61 acres; Wise, 20,263. Total, 20,324.
Administrative Units
Administration is by the Forest Service, U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture, with the Forest Supervisor's
headquarters in Lufkin. There are eight ranger dis-
tricts administered by District Forest Rangers as
follows:
Angelina National Forest, Angelina District, at Luf-
kin. Sabine National Forest, Tenaha District at San Au-
gustine; Yellowpine District at Hemphill. Davy Crock-
ett National Forest, Neches Ranger District at
Crockett; Trinity District at Apple Springs. Sam Hous-
ton National Forest, Raven District at New Waverly;
San Jacinto District at Cleveland, National Grasslands,
Caddo-Lyndon B. Johnson District at Decatur.
National Forests in Texas were established by invi-
tation of the Texas Legislature by an Act of 1933, autho-
rizing the purchase of lands in Texas for the establish-
ment of national forests. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt proclaimed these purchases of national for-
ests on Oct. 15, 1936.
Timber Management
Each national forest constitutes a timber manage-
ment working circle. All work is done under a detailed
prescription prepared by a trained forester. Over 80,000
acres have been reforested artificially and thousands of
additional acres have been treated to increase the
quantity and quality of the timber.
Sales of sawtimber, pulpwood and other forest
products are made at regular intervals:
The estimated net growth is over 200 million board
feet per year and is valued at 520 million. About one-
third of this growth is removed by cutting. The balance
is left to grow: By the year 2000, growth is expected to
exceed 300 million board feet per year.
Fire Protection
U.S. Forest Service cooperates with the Texas For-est Service in the protection of private and forest ser-
vice lands inside the national forest boundaries. Detec-
tion of forest fires is done from airplanes.
Grazing Permits
Permits to graze cattle on national forests and na-
tional grasslands are granted to local residents for an
annual fee. In calendar year 1984, approximately 4,700
head of cattle were grazed on national forests and 2,000
head of cattle were grazed on the Caddo-Lyndon B.
Johnson area.
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