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. 42. Evergreen Forest Land <br />Evergreen Forest Land includes all forested areas in which the trees are <br />predominantly those which remain green throughout the year. Both coniferous and <br />broad-leaved evergreens are included in This category. In most areas, the coniferous <br />evergreens predominate, but some of the forests of Haw oii are notable exceptions. <br />The coniferous evergreens are commonly referred to or classified as softwoods. They <br />include such eastern species as the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), slash pine (Pinus <br />ellioti), shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata), lobloylly pine (Pinus taeda), and other <br />southern yellow pines; various spruces (Picea) and balsam fir (Abies balsameo); white <br />pine (Pinus sirobus), red pine (Pinus resinosa), jack pine (Pinus bonksiona); hercilock <br />(Tsuga canadensis); and such western species os Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), <br />redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), ponderosa pine (Pinus monticola), Sitka spruce (Picea <br />sitchensis), Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmanni), western redcedar (Thuja plicata), <br />and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophyllo) (Shelford, 1963). Evergreen species <br />commonly associated with wetland, such as tamarack (Larix laricina) or black spruce <br />(Picea m oriana), are not included in this category (Kuchler, 1964). <br />• 43. Mixed Forest Land <br />Mixed Forest Land includes all forested areas where both evergreen and <br />deciduous trees are growing and neither predominates. W hen more than one-third <br />intermixture of either evergreen or deciduous species occurs in a specific area, it is <br />classified as Mixed Forest Lond. Where the intermixed land use or uses total less <br />than one-third of the specified area, 'the category appropriate to the dominant type <br />of Forest Land is applied whether Deciduous or Evergreen. <br />7. BARREN LAND <br />Barren Land is land of limited ability to support life and in which less than one- <br />third of the area has vegetation or other cover. In general, ii is an area of thin soil, <br />sand or rocks. Vegetation, if present, is more widely spaced and scrubby Than that <br />in The Shrub and Brush category of Rangeland. Unusual conditions, such as o heavy <br />rainfall, occasionally result in growth of a short-lived, more luxuriant plant cover. <br />Wet, nonvegetated barren lands are included in the N onforesied Weiland category. <br />J <br />2.4-II <br />