Shortleaf pine: its economic importance and forest management (1915)Mattoon, W. R. (1915b). Shortleaf pine: its economic importance and forest management. Bulletin of the US Dept. of Agriculture No. 308. Retrieved from https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/108229#/summary Shortleaf pine possesses characteristics of growth which especially fit it for profitable forest management throughout a large part of the Eastern and Southern States. Over extensive areas from Maryland southward and westward to the Mississippi River it occurs as second growth, both in pure stands and mixed with hardAvoods, and in the Gulf States and the central Mississippi Basin it forms a large proportion of the remaining virgin southern yellow pine. In a considerable portion of these regions shortleaf pine excels all other coniferous species in value and profitableness as a timber crop. It is one of the more important commercial pines and because of the following qualities promises to supply much of the future timber crop: (1) Quick and persistent growth, (2) vigor of reproduction and high sprouting capacity during youth when most susceptible to serious injury, (3) quick response to increase of light secured by thinning, (4) characteristically tall, straight, and clean trunk, (5) intermediate quality of the wood, which fits it for a wide range of uses, and (6) the gregarious habit of the species in pure stands, resulting in large yields of high-grade timber per acre https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/108229#/summary
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