Table 4.  Volume of all live trees on forestland by species group  
                    and owner group, Massachusetts, 2005 
  
                     (Standard error as percentage of total) 
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                                        Owner group                             
     Species group          ________________________________        All Owners 
                                  Public            Private                     
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  Balsam fir                          61.2              76.2              59.4  
  Atlantic white-cedar               100.0              85.0              75.1  
  Black spruce                          .0             100.0             100.0  
  Red spruce                          77.6              60.5              52.6  
  Red pine                              .0              65.9              65.9  
  Pitch pine                          37.7              34.3              23.2  
  Eastern white pine                  27.1              13.4              11.7  
  Eastern hemlock                     26.6              21.4              16.0  
  Other softwoods                       .0              51.2              51.2  
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    Total softwoods                   19.3              10.7               8.8  
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  Red maple                           18.0              10.8               8.5  
  Sugar maple                         35.2              23.0              19.9  
  Yellow birch                        32.9              22.5              18.2  
  Paper birch                         26.0              27.3              20.0  
  Hickory                             45.3              33.4              27.2  
  American beech                      32.0              25.8              19.7  
  White ash                           30.6              23.4              19.6  
  Yellow-poplar                         .0             100.0             100.0  
  Blackgum                            69.3              38.8              36.6  
  Aspen                               53.1              27.9              24.9  
  Black cherry                        40.0              26.2              22.1  
  White oak                           27.3              19.0              15.2  
  Northern red oak                    23.2              15.2              12.1  
  Other white oaks                    56.5              48.6              37.6  
  Other red oaks                      22.9              15.9              12.8  
  American basswood                     .0              68.4              68.4  
  Elm                                 51.4              40.2              31.5  
  Other hardwoods                     25.4              18.5              14.3  
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    Total hardwoods                   13.1               7.2               5.2  
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  Total, all species                  12.4               6.8               4.8  
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