Table 11. -- Change in percentage of natural slash pine acreage
infected with fusiform rust at three infection levels, estimated from FIA* data
| State |
Survey
dates |
Change in
total acres ** |
Change
in acres **
|
>10%
infection |
>30%
infection |
>50%
infection |
|
|
---------------- Percent ---------------- |
| Between
most recent survey and next-to-last survey |
| Alabama |
1982,
1990 |
-20 |
+2 |
+8 |
+7 |
| Arkansas |
1978,
1988 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Florida |
1980,
1987 |
-22 |
+1 |
+1 |
+1 |
| Georgia |
1982,
1989 |
-29 |
-1 |
0 |
+1 |
| Louisiana |
1984,
1991 |
-20 |
+21 |
+23 |
+19 |
| Mississippi |
1987,
1994 |
-10 |
+7 |
-8 |
-5 |
| N. Carolina |
1984,
1990 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Oklahoma |
1986,
1993 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| S. Carolina |
1986,
1993 |
+3 |
-8 |
-19 |
-9 |
| Texas |
1986,
1992 |
-17 |
-23 |
-12 |
0 |
| Virginia |
1986,
1992 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Total |
|
-24 |
+1 |
+1 |
+1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Between
next-to-last and previous surveys |
|
| Mississippi |
1977,
1987 |
-28 |
-7 |
-2 |
+1 |
| N. Carolina |
1975,
1984 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| S. Carolina |
1978,
1986 |
-22 |
+7 |
+18 |
+8 |
| Virginia |
1977,
1986 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| *FIA=Forest Inventory
and Analysis Unit, Asheville, NC. |
| **Change between the
listed survey dates. |
|