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Part Two: Nonfederal Forest Resource and Program Landscape--2 Resource and Ownership Characteristics
Pages 23-31

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... Descriptions of nonfederal forest resources often relate to timberland, a subcategory of forestland. Information about the resource and ownership characteristics of private, especially nonindustrial private forests and Native American forests, is limited and narrowly focused.
From page 26...
... The former estimates nonfederal forestland to total 488 million acres in 1992, whereas the latter estimates this acreage (excluding that in Alaska) to total 395 million acres (USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service 1995, USDA Economic Research Service 1995~.
From page 27...
... The Northeast and North Central regions contain 20 percent and 18 percent of nonfederal timberland, respectively. The least amount of nonfederal timberland is located in the Rocky Mountain region, with about 23 million acres or 6 percent of the total.
From page 28...
... More than 77 percent of tree plantings on nonfederal forests were in the Southeast and South Central regions. A substantial amount of tree planting, including seeding, also occurred in the Pacific Northwest (USDA Forest Service 1996d)
From page 29...
... The bulk of private nonfederal forests 317 million acres or 75 percent is located in the eastern United States, with 55 percent of forest-industry-owned land nationwide concentrated in the Southeast and South Central regions (Table A- 10~. Although management direction for industrial ownerships varies, focus is primarily on the production of wood fiber often in the form of plantation forests (especially in the South and Northwest)
From page 30...
... Nearly 81 percent (52 million acres) of public nonfederal forestland is located in the Northeast, North Central, and Pacific Northwest regions.
From page 31...
... Urban and community forestland exceeds 20 million acres. Nonfederal forests are owned primarily by individuals and forest industry.


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