Managing Piedmont Forests to Reduce Losses from the Littleleaf Disease- Southern Pine Beetle Complex (1986)Belanger, R. P., Hedden, R. L., & Tainter, F. H. (1986). Managing Piedmont Forests to Reduce Losses from the Littleleaf Disease- Southern Pine Beetle Complex. US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Cooperative State Research Service, Agriculture Handbook 649. Retrieved from https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/naldc/download.xhtml?id=CAT86866749&content=PDF The Piedmont is a geographic region located between the Appalachian Mountains and the Coastal Plain of the southern United States. This strip of rolling flat hills extends 1,000 miles from New York State, through Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and into Alabama. At one time or another, most of this land—an estimated 85,000 square miles—was cleared and intensively cultivated for agricultural row crops. Exploitation and neglect of the land depleted the fertility of the soil and led to serious erosion. Wars and depressions forced migration from farms and widespread land abandonment, and forests quickly reclaimed the fields. Of the major species, loblolly and shortleaf pine occupied much of the southern portion of the Piedmont while shortleaf and Virginia pine and associated hardwoods reforested the central and northern sections https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/naldc/download.xhtml?id=CAT86866749&content=PDF
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