Root systems of direct-seeded and variously planted loblolly, shortleaf, and pitch pines (1964)Little, S., & Somes, H. A. (1964). Root systems of direct-seeded and variously planted loblolly, shortleaf, and pitch pines. Northeastern Research Station, Research Paper NE-26. Retrieved from http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/3843 Though tree planting has long been a major forestry practice in the Northeast, it has resulted in relatively few wholly successful stands. Survival has often been low. Where survival has been high, the trees in some plantations have been slow-growing or misshapen. Even when planted trees do grow well for a while, they commonly are short-lived: scattered trees die from no apparents cause, or a swatch of trees may go down in a wind storm. Attrition of this sort tends to continue until the stand is largely destroyed or is removed in a salvage cutting. Only in occasional instances or in certain places do plantations give promise of growing as well as the best natural stands http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/3843
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