Loblolly cookie

[Texas Ranger]

Cleaning up after the flood I had  the opportunity to redo my teaching cookie.  81 year old cookie I cut back in 1983.  Shows red heart and  growth pattern of loblolly on the best site in Polk County, compared to a similar age slash from black gumbo soil.  The dots are push pins at 10 year intervals.  Texas has gotten away from long  term management  to  the "plant and mow" plantation management.  Not many of the old stands left.