Tva Forest Log

The Tennessee Valley has 14 million acres of forest land. These forests, together with soil, water, and minerals, comprise the natural resource base of the region, the source of all raw materials, the basis for all economic development.

This report provides a general overview of current log sort yard operations in the United States, including an extensive literature review and information collected during on-site visits to several operations throughout the nation. Log sort yards provide many services in marketing wood and fiber by concentrating, merchandising, processing, sorting, and adding value to logs. Such operations supply forest products firms with desired raw materials, which helps improve their bottom line by reducing the number of marginal logs processed. Ultimately, sorting logs leads to better use of the available timber resources. Successful log sort yards are self-sufficient and have well-established markets and a steady supply of wood. Log sort yard concepts and analyses described in this report have broad applications.

This bibliography covers twenty-five years of forest research at the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station. Over most of this period the station's territory included Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, northern Georgia, eastern Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee. On July 1, 1946 the station name was changed to Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, and the station's territory was designated as Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

Hearings on problems of small business lumber and pulpwood industries.