It's important to remember that intensively managed pine plantations (managed with the goal of maximizing timber production), only make up roughly 20% of the entire acreage of AL (33 million acres). Out of available acres identified as timberland (23 million acres), plantations are only 31% of that.

So, total acres statewide, only 1 out of 5 acres is plantation.

It just doesn't fit the narrative when blaming everything on pines.

So, what's wrong with the other 80%?