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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



4,155,218 acres of forested land in the national parks of the United 

 States proper. This area is small in comparison with the 495 million 

 acres of commercial forest land in the United States. From a 

 recreational standpoint, however, this modest area of forest has 

 unassessable value. 



The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is largely forested; 

 the area of its timberlands is at present estimated at 285,720 acres. 

 Of the remaining parks, Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite, and Sequoia 

 are the most important from the forest standpoint. Together they 

 contain more than three fourths of the forested land in the entire 

 national-park system. 



Table 1 shows the names, locations, dates of establishment, areas, 

 and special superlative characteristics of the 22 national parks at 

 present in existence. 



TABLE 1. National parks as of January 1983 



i There is a distinction between land forested and that classified as forest land. The total of those areas 

 of national parks classified as forest land is 4,420,000 acres. 



