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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
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Table 8	Table 9
Table 9a	Table 9b
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Table 18	Table 18a
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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 9b. Area of forest land of the United States by forest class and ownership class, 1987 and 1997¹.

			Change
Forest class and	1987	1997	1987-1997
ownership class	(Million ha)

Timberland
National Forest	34.7	39.0	4.3
Other public	19.7	20.0	0.4
Forest industry	28.6	27.1	-1.5
Other private	113.8	117.7	3.9
Total timberland	196.8	203.8	7.0

Reserved forest land
National Forest	9.2	11.1	1.9
Other public	8.7	9.4	0.7
Forest industry	0.0	0.0	0.0
Other private	0.5	0.3	-0.2
Total reserved forest land	18.4	20.8	2.4

Other forest land
National Forest	12.7	9.2	-3.5
Other public	42.9	22.2	-20.7
Forest industry	0.3	1.3	1.0
Other private	27.4	44.9	17.5
Total other forest land	83.3	77.7	-5.6

All forest land
National Forest	56.6	59.3	2.7
Other public	71.3	51.7	-19.6
Forest industry	28.9	28.4	-0.5
Other private	141.8	162.9	21.2
Total forest land	298.5	302.3	3.8
¹ From Smith et al. 2001 and other public records.

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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