Cutting hardwoods to make room for more pines is rampant throughout the blackbelt. Drive across the Choctawhatchee River where it crosses 10 just West of Abbeville if you want to see something heartbreaking. I have no idea how that was even legal to cut the entire river bottom down like that. Money for pulpwood trumps wildlife management every time.
Money trumps management (of any kind) .... Every time.
