1998 Report of the Forest Service

Table 19--Certification of reforestation and timber stand improvement acreages by region--fiscal year 1998 1/

Reforestation

Artificial

Natural regeneration

Timber Stand Improvement

regeneration

w/ site

w/o site

Precommercial

Region

Planted

Seeded

prep. 3/

prep. 3/

Total

Cleaning

Release

Thinning

Fertilization

Pruning

Total

Acres

Acres

Northern (R-1)

35,701

196

5,156

3,143

44,196

0

4,074

16,538

243

3,427

24,282

Rocky Mountain (R-2)

558

131

2,350

20,233

23,272

0

662

7,010

0

0

7,672

Southwest (R-3)

475

0

162

7,227

7,864

0

239

1,330

0

0

1,569

Intermountain (R-4)

13,577

0

3,374

3,803

20,754

0

1,421

9,706

0

0

11,127

Pacific Southwest (R-5)

12,162

0

371

1,831

14,364

0

32,837

32,392

1,271

471

66,971

Pacific Northwest (R-6)

43,682

0

4,835

16,707

65,224

219

5,503

22,849

1,242

1,142

30,955

Southern (R-8)

21,833

2,691

13,273

1,085

38,882

0

23,894

7,880

1,337

62

33,173

Eastern (R-9)

2,830

367

20,571

23,747

47,515

0

5,962

5,143

0

908

12,013

Alaska (R-10)

395

0

0

9,846

10,241

0

0

2,463

0

145

2,608

Total

131,213

3,385

50,092

87,622

272,312

219

74,592

105,311

4,093

6,155

190,370

1/ Data source is Reforestation & TSI Needs Report (2400_K) Table 21. This information is required by the National Forest Management Act of 1976, Section 4d(1).

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