- Clemson University Experimental Forest
- Piedmont pine and pine-hardwood forest
- Fire return interval: annual to 30 years
- Represents 15 million hectares in the southeastern Piedmont
- Dominant species include loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) and shortleaf pine (P. echinata) with mixtures of oak and other hardwoods in the canopy and subcanopy.
- The region is largely forested with second- or third-growth timber resulting from reforestation of abandoned farmland and harvesting since the Great Depression.
- South Carolina suppresses 4500 wildfires each year.
- At least one catastrophic wildfire (over 400 hectares) has occurred in South Carolina each year since 1970.
For more information visit the Southeastern Piedmont FFS Site Location web site.
Publications
Soil stabilization and reforestation at the Clemson Forest by the Work Projects Administration (WPA), circa 1940.
Site Manager
Thomas A. Waldrop
USFS, Southern Research Station
Site Data Manager
Ross Phillips
USFS, Southern Research Station
Site Discipline Leaders
Economics
Jamie Barbour
USFS, PNW Research Station
Entomology
Roy Hedden
Clemson University
Fuels
Thomas A. Waldrop
USFS, Southern Research Station
Pathology
Steve Jeffers
Clemson University
Soils
Vic Shelburne
Clemson University
Vegetation
Thomas A. Waldrop
USFS, Southern Research Station
Wildlife
Dave Guynn
Clemson University
Drew Lanham
Clemson University