REPORT ON FORESTS. 17 



State. Small groves, less than ten acres in extent, and strips, 

 hedge-rows, etc., are not included. A table of areas, by town, 

 ships, will be found in the " Physical Geography of New 

 Jersey," pages 134 to 149 of the Appendix. 



It will be seen that 46 per cent., or nearly half of the upland 

 area of the State, is in forest. The improved land in farms, 

 according to the census of 1890, aggregates 1,999,117 acres 

 almost exactly equal to the forest area. Compared with neigh- 

 boring States, we have the improved land in farms and forest 

 area as follows : 



Percentage of Estimated Per- 



Upland centage of 



Area Upland Area 



Improved. in Forest. 



New Jersey, 46 46 



Massachusetts, 41 51 



Connecticut, 53 39 



New York 58 34 



Pennsylvania, 47 45 



Delaware, 60 32 



Maryland 53 39 



This shows that New Jersey has more than the average 

 amount of forest area, although, as may be seen by consulting 

 the areas by counties, it is not evenly distributed. 



By geological and topographical divisions the forest areas are 

 as follows : 



Percentage 



Forest Area. of upland 



Acres. area in forest. 



Kittatinny Mountain, including all west to 



Delaware River, 58,000 64 



Kittatinny Valley, 40,000 19 



Northeastern Highlands, 211,000 67 



Southwestern Highlands, 89,000 30 



Northeastern Red Sandstone 103.000 31 



Southwestern Red Sandstone, 91,800 14 



Clay and Marl Region, 147,840 15 



Tertiary and Quaternary, 1*329 179 68 



The map showing the distribution of forest and its relation 

 to the stream catchments, which accompanies this report, gives 

 in further detail the location of the forests of the State. This 

 map shows the acres of forest in each one hundred acres of 

 upland. It will be seen that the most completely deforested 



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