Table 16.28--Volume, average net annual growth, average annual removals, and mortality of growing stock on timberland by species and stand origin, Southern United States

	Stand origin
Species	Natural				Plantation
	Volume	Growth	Removals	Mortality	Volume	Growth	Removals	Mortality
	Million cubic feet
Softwood
Longleaf-slash pine	9,698	423	586	76	6,233	652	571	43
Loblolly-shortleaf pine	51,583	2,550	3,546	599	17,335	1,764	788	115
Other pine	8,609	263	341	155	389	38	25	2
Eastern white-redpine	1,884	60	36	13	239	11	5	2
Spruce-fir	24	1	\xe2\x80\x94	1	\xe2\x80\x94	\xe2\x80\x94	\xe2\x80\x94	\xe2\x80\x94
Eastern hemlock	628	19	6	2	2	0	\xe2\x80\x94	0
Cypress	6,410	112	82	19	12	0	0	\xe2\x80\x94
Other softwood	1,231	51	18	14	24	1	0	\xe2\x80\x94
Total Softwoods	80,066	3,478	4,616	877	24,234	2,467	1,389	162
Hardwood
Select white oak	14,750	480	347	57	246	10	5	2
Select red oak	6,993	246	160	52	68	5	2	0
Other white oak	12,361	326	221	67	112	3	2	1
Other red oak	26,254	975	833	313	591	31	14	3
Hickory	9,744	247	182	79	104	2	2	1
Yellow birch	95	1	0	1	\xe2\x80\x94	\xe2\x80\x94	\xe2\x80\x94	\xe2\x80\x94
Hard maple	1,218	42	13	4	2	\xe2\x80\x94	\xe2\x80\x94	\xe2\x80\x94
Soft maple	7,371	266	136	59	102	6	1	1
Beech	1,843	46	32	7	22	0	0	0
Sweetgum	16,142	555	526	129	541	34	16	3
Tupelo-blackgum	11,096	227	187	58	91	3	2	0
Ashes	4,048	111	66	44	20	1	0	0
Cottonwoods-aspen	578	11	18	12	18	2	6	\xe2\x80\x94
Basswood	513	11	5	2	3	0	\xe2\x80\x94	\xe2\x80\x94
Yellow-poplar	13,361	488	310	58	252	18	5	0
Blackwalnut	399	9	6	2	2	0	\xe2\x80\x94	\xe2\x80\x94
Other soft hardwood	9,845	317	197	128	178	12	3	1
Other hard hardwood	2,109	43	35	40	26	1	1	0
Noncommercial	199	9	\xe2\x80\x94	\xe2\x80\x94	2	0	\xe2\x80\x94	\xe2\x80\x94
Total Hardwoods	138,918	4,408	3,273	1,110	2,379	127	58	12
All species	218,984	7,886	7,889	1,988	26,613	2,594	1,447	174

Numbers in columns may not sum to totals due to rounding.

A dash (\xe2\x80\x94) indicates no sample for the cell; 0 indicates a value of > 0 but > .5 for the cell.