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Site Guide for Piedmont and Cumberland Plateau
| Landscape Characteristics | Management Type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Landform | Moisture Regime | Texture | Preferred |
| Flood Plains, Steam Terraces, Fans, Coves | Wet | Fine | Sweetgum, W/W†, Oak/Ash |
| Moist | Medium | Oaks, Yellow Poplar, Hickories, Sycamore | |
| Landscape Characteristics | Management Type‡ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landform | Past Erosion | Moisture Regime | Texture | Preferred | Suitable |
| Ridge Tops | Slight | Wet◊ | Fine to Medium | Hardwoods, Sweetgum, W/W Oak | Pine, Loblolly |
| Moist◊ | Medium | Pine, Loblolly | Pine, Shortleaf | ||
| Dryθ | Coarse | Pine, Loblolly | Pine, Virginia | ||
| Severe | Moist◊ | Medium | Pine, Loblolly | Pine Virginia | |
| Dry & Droughty◊θ | Coarse to Skeletal | Pine Virginia | Pine Loblolly | ||
| Landscape Characters | Management Type | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landform | Aspect | Slope Pos. | Past Erosion | Texture | Preferred | Suitable |
| Side Slopes(manageable areas exceeding 15-20% slope) | Northerly | Upper | Slight | All | Pine, Loblolly | Pine, Shortleaf |
| Severe | All | Pine, Loblolly | Pine, Virginia | |||
| Lower | Slight | Fine to Medium | Hardwoods, Oaks, Yellow Poplar, Ash, Hickories | Loblolly | ||
| Severe | Coarse | Hardwoods/Pine, Loblolly | – | |||
| Southerly | Upper | Slight | All | Pine, Loblolly | Pine, Virginia, Shortleaf | |
| Severe | All | Pine Virginia | Pine, Loblolly | |||
| Lower | Slight | Fine to Medium | Pine, Shortleaf, Loblolly | |||
| Severe | Coarse | Pine, Loblolly | Pine, Virginia | |||
† W/W Oak- Water/Willow Oak
‡ White Pine could also be suitable for ridges and side slopes of areas of the Cumberland Plateau
◊ Broad Ridges
θ Narrow Ridges
site_guide_for_piedmont.txt · Last modified: 2012/08/16 18:43 by 128.192.48.76
