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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



FARM WOODLANDS 



Farm woodlands constitute a very important and distinctive type 

 of forest-land ownership and one well adapted, generally speaking, 

 to keeping forest land permanently productive. 



More than one fourth of the country's commercial forest land, or 

 127 million acres, is in farm woodland and of this, 95 percent is in 



New England 



Middle Atlantic. 

 Lake 



Central 



South 



Pacific Coast 



N. Rocky Mt.__. 

 S. Rocky Mt 



All Regions... 



10 



2O 3O 4O 



MILLION ACRES 



50 



60 



New England 



Middle Atlantic__ 



Lake 



Central 



South 



Pacific Coast 



N. Rocky Mt 



5. Rocky Mt 



Saw-timber 

 Areas 



20 



40 



PER 



60 

 CENT 



80 



100 



Cord wood 

 Areas 



Fairto Satisfactory 

 Restocking Areas 



Poor to Non- 

 restockingAreas 



FIGURE 9. Public (commercial) forest area by character of growth. 



the eastern United States where it constitutes somewhat less than 

 one third of the eastern commercial area. In the Central region it 

 includes about one half and in the South and Middle Atlantic about 

 one third of the commercial acreage. It is therefore in relative prox- 

 imity, broadly speaking, to the great wood-consuming, wood-importing 

 regions a favorable factor, in that the most productive and profit- 

 able use of these lands depends upon markets to absorb the surplus 

 timber products not needed for direct consumption on the farm. 



