Excerpt from Louisiana's Forests and the Future After more than a century of forest exploitation and clearing of forest land for farms, Louisiana's forest land still occupies more than 16 million acres, or 56 percent of the total land area of the State. Actually, this amounts to more than 13 times the acreage planted to cotton, the principal farm crop. Forests are - found in every section of the State with the exception of the tidal marshes along the Gulf of mcxlco, and in the prairies of the south-central region All parts of the State have adequate road, rail, or water transportation facili ties. Logging Operations are relatively simple; as a result of the construction of highways and improvement in motorized equipment, transportation of logs and lumber by truck has become common and is rapidly increasing in importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.