S2Much of the silvical information about our forest trees is widely scattered and sometimes difficult to find. To make this material more readily available, the U.S. Forest Service, is assembling information on the silvical characteristics of the important native forest tree species of the United States. It is expected that this information will be published as a comprehensive silvics manual. This paper presents the silvical characteristics of one specieseastern white pine. It contains the essential information that will appear in the general manual but has been written with particular reference to the species in the Northeast. Similar reports on other species have been prepared by the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station and several of the other regional experiment stations of the U.S. Forest Service. S3.

S2There probably is a more extensive professional and scientific literature relating to eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) than for any other North American forest tree species. Unfortunately this material is scattered in thousands of books, theses, bulletins, and journal articles, making access and retrieval a serious problem for the forest researcher and practitioner alike. Three of the most frequently used classes of white pine mensurational data are estimators of site index, tree volume tables, and stand growth and yield predictors. This paper brings together some of this information. Only the more widely applicable studies are reproduced here; much additional information of local significance is represented in the literature and is available.S3.