• Boyd Edwards, M.
  USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
  
• Dangerfield, Coleman W.
  USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
  

Cost-effective regeneration alternatives are urgently needed for NIPF land on the Piedmont Plateau. Four methods of natural regeneration are examined by profitability analysis. These methods of regeneration are shown to be good investments, but internal rates of return are higher for natural regeneration (10.81 per year) than for site preparation and planting (10.1% per year after taxes and adjustment for inflation).