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Tree Planting Sets
Record in 50th Year
Forest industry and forest landowners collaborated during the 1966-67 tree planting season - the 50th anniversary of the start of reforestation activities in Virginia - to set out a total of 55,676,160 seedlings. This was an alltime high for any one year. The number of seedlings planted during the past halfcentury now totals 568,605,775 This information was obtained from a report compiled by VIRGINIA FORESTS, Inc., in cooperation with the Virginia Division of Forestry. It will appear in detail in the Fall issue of “Virginia Forests" maga zine. Of the more than 55 million ■seedlings planted, 50.2 million were loblolly pine. White pine accounted for 4.2 million of the total, followed by Virginia pine with 529 thousand and shortleaf pine with 358 thousand. Red, pitch, Scotch, longleaf, and slash pines, together with Norway spruce, added up to another 68 thousand. Yellow poplar was the leading hardwood species with a total of 188 thousand. Black locust came next with 45 thousand, followed by green ash (22 M) and white ash (6 M ). Tupelo, sweet, and black gums, together with hybrid and cherry bark oaks, combined for the remaining 6 thousand. Also, other than seedlings, a total of 22,500 black walnuts were distributed to Virginia landowners for planting.
Of those who planted seedlings during the past year, pulp and paper companies accounted for 27.1 million, nearly half the total. In addition, they gave away another
90.8%