Table 3.  Area of timberland by forest type, forest-type group, and stand-size  
                     class, Delaware, 1999 
  
                                      (In thousands of acres) 
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                                                Stand-size class                                  
            Forest type              ______________________________________     All                
                                         Saw-     Pole-  Sapling and   Non-   classes       SE    
                                       timber    timber   seedling   stocked                      
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   Loblolly pine                         19.2      17.5      11.0       1.0      48.6      27.9  
   Virginia pine                           .8        .0        .0        .0        .8     100.0  
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     Loblolly/shortleaf group            19.9      17.5      11.0       1.0      49.4      27.5  
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   Loblolly pine/hardwood                19.4      16.5       1.4        .0      37.3      31.9  
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     Oak/pine group                      19.4      16.5       1.4        .0      37.3      31.9  
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   Post, black, or bear oak               7.1        .0        .0        .0       7.1      70.7  
   White oak/red oak/hickory              7.9        .0        .0        .0       7.9      64.2  
   White oak                             17.8        .0        .0        .0      17.8      49.6  
   Y-poplar/wh. oak/no.red oak            4.5        .0        .0        .0       4.5     100.0  
   Sweetgum/yellow-poplar                 7.5       1.8       1.5        .0      10.8      50.0  
   Yellow-poplar                          1.4        .0        .0        .0       1.4     100.0  
   Hawthorn/reverting field                .0        .0       7.9        .8       8.7      61.7  
   Scarlet oak                           13.1       3.1        .0        .0      16.3      47.9  
   Red maple/central hardwood             8.5       7.0        .0        .0      15.5      53.2  
   Mixed central hardwoods              108.5      23.0      19.0        .0     150.6      14.0  
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     Oak/hickory group                  176.5      35.0      28.4        .8     240.6       8.8  
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   Swamp chsnt oak/cherrybark oak         4.9        .0        .0        .0       4.9     100.0  
   Sweetgm/nuttall oak/willow oak        15.8       1.9        .0        .0      17.7      49.0  
   Baldcypress/water tupelo                .0        .0       1.5        .0       1.5     100.0  
   Sweetbay/swamp tupelo/red mple          .0        .0       1.5        .0       1.5     100.0  
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     Oak/gum/cypress group               20.7       1.9       3.0        .0      25.5      39.2  
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   Black ash/Amer. elm/red maple          3.5        .0        .0        .0       3.5     100.0  
   Red maple(lowland)                     6.0        .0       3.3        .0       9.3      69.4  
   Red maple(upland)                      1.4        .0        .0        .0       1.4     100.0  
   Cottonwood                              .0        .5        .0        .0        .5     100.0  
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     Elm/ash/red maple group             10.9        .5       3.3        .0      14.7      50.7  
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   Black Cherry                            .0       1.4        .0        .0       1.4     100.0  
   Red maple/northern hardwoods           2.7        .0        .0        .0       2.7     100.0  
   Mixed northern hardwoods               2.3       1.6        .0        .0       4.0      71.8  
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     Northern hardwoods group             5.0       3.0        .0        .0       8.0      51.6  
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   All forest types                     252.4      74.3      47.0       1.8     375.6       3.3  
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   SE                                     7.9      21.2      27.9      70.9       3.3 
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