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TABLE 1. Estimated areas of commercial and noncommercial forest lands grazed 

 by livestock in the United States, by regions and classes of ownership Contd. 



NONCOMMERCIAL AREAS 

 [Thousand acres] 



ALL AREAS 



These forest ranges have represented on them nearly every character 

 of ownership prevailing in the West Federally owned and managed, 

 State, and private. There are large Federal holdings. Of the 88 

 million acres of usable range lands within the national forests almost 

 64 million acres are classed as forest. More than 21.5 million acres 

 of the unreserved public domain are forest ranges. The Federally 

 managed Indian reservations contain some 12 million acres of forest 

 land usable for grazing. The forest lands usable for grazing in other 

 Federal reservations and withdrawals amount to about half a million 

 acres. It is estimated that about 4 million acres of forest, land in 

 State ownership is grazed. Forest ranges under other public owner- 

 ship or management are small and probably have little influence on 

 the forest-range problem of the West. It is estimated that almost 

 42 million acres of privately owned forest land are grazed, including 

 15 million acres of farm woodland (1930 census). The increase in 

 tax-delinquent land to the public may materially enlarge the forest- 

 range area in certain classes of public ownership and make it important 

 locally. 



Among the larger private holdings are the areas still held by cor- 

 porations from the grants made as subsidies for construction of 



