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The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

Metric Unit Data

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Table 2a	Table 3
Table 4	Table 4a
Table 5	Table 6
Table 6a	Table 7
Table 8	Table 9
Table 9a	Table 9b
Table 10	Table 11
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Table 14	Table 15
Table 16	Table 17
Table 18	Table 18a
Table 19	Table 2 0
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Chapter 2: Current and Historical Trends in Use, Management and Disturbance of United States Forest Lands-Metric Unit Data
by Richard A. Birdsey & George M. Lewis

Table 18. Average area of forest land damaged by wildfire, by region of the conterminous U.S., 1916-1997¹.

	1916	1939	1954	1964	1978	1988
	to 1938	to 1953	to 1963	to 1977	to 1987	to 1997
	(Thousand ha/yr)
Region
Northeast	186.5	137.6	64.3	61.1	58.3	35.2
North Central	404.5	421.5	207.3	193.2	61.5	63.1
Southeast	5,664.9	3,711.6	920.8	420.3	164.6	129.5
South Central	5,059.5	4,289.6	645.8	567.7	628.0	182.3
Great Plains	4.1	7.7	41.9	151.7	61.0	120.4
Intermountain	113.3	101.8	72.8	188.1	296.8	544.1
Pacific Coast	379.4	214.0	112.1	168.7	212.2	197.3
Alaska	n/a	157.5	291.8	353.3	76.6	364.9
Total	11,812.1	9,041.4	2,356.9	2,103.9	1,559.0	1,636.8
¹ From USDA Forest Service reports. Estimate for Alaska unavailable for earliest period.

Users of these tables are kindly requested to cite their source:
Birdsey, Richard A.; Lewis, George M. 2002. Current and Historical Trends in Use,
Management and Disturbance of United States Forest Lands. IN: Kimble, John et al. (eds.),
The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect.
Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. XXX p.

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