              Table 1.  Land area by land-use class, West Virginia, 1989 and 2000^ae 
  
                                      (In thousands of acres) 
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                                           2000                        1989                    
        Land class           ^{^{________________________________________________________}} 
                                    Area          Percent       Area          Percent         
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  Timberland:                
    Rural                         11,784.6          76.4      11,873.3          77.0       
    Urban                             12.4            .1          31.8            .2       
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   Total timberland               11,797.0          76.5      11,905.1          77.2            
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  Forested land: 
    Productive reserved              174.0           1.1         182.0           1.2             
    Unproductive reserved                0             0           3.1             0        
    Other forest land^c                35.9            .2          23.9            .2         
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  Total forest land               12,006.9          77.9      12,114.0          78.6            
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  Nonforest land:          
    Cropland                         536.0           3.5         557.2           3.6            
    Pasture                        1,008.1           6.5       1,058.5           6.9            
    Other                          1,812.7          11.8       1,654.5          10.7            
    Noncensus water                   51.7            .3          31.1            .2            
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  Total nonforest land             3,408.5          22.1       3,301.3          21.4            
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  Total land area^d                15,415.4^b        100.0      15,415.4^b        100.0    
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^a In this and other tables, a zero indicates that the data are
 negligible or the condition was not encountered in the sample.
 A dash indicates that the condition is not possible under current
 Forest Service definitions.
  
^b Rows and columns in all tables may not sum due to rounding.
  
^c "Other forest land" formerly known as unproductive forest land.
  
^d Source: 1990 United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census.
  
^e All estimates are derived from ground plots except for 1989 productive reserved total.