Figure 1. In North Carolina, hardwoods dominate softwoods in number of species, timberland acreage, and live standing tree inventory (Brown and Vogt 2015).
Charts: 15 softwood species vs. 70 hardwood, 6.0 millions of acres softwood vs. 11.8 hardwood and 13.2 softwood live standing tree inventory vs. 24.9 hardwood (Bcf)