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TABLE 9. State-owned forest land not under administration as Slate forests and 

 parks, by regions and States, 1932 Continued 



15 To be retained by State and managed by U.S. Forest Service. Includes acreage of commercial saw 

 timber only. 



16 Prospect of exchange with Federal Government for a State forest of 75,000 acres. 



17 Managed by U.S. Forest Service. Includes acreage of commercial saw timber only. 

 is State not interested in'State forests or forestry. 



TABLE 10. State-owned forest land compared with commercial forest land in all 



ownerships 



1 Exclusive of an estimated area of about 11,700,000 acres of tax-reverted land, mostly in the South region 

 the status of which is very unstable and uncertain, except for 1,250,000 acres in Michigan which is definitely 



2 Of this total, 400,000 acres are lands in unorganized towns held in trust by the State for school purposes, 

 until such time as the towns may become organized. 



3 Forest Service estimates on the area of forest land in the United States do not include Kansas and 

 Nebraska. These percentages are based on an estimated area of a million acres of forest land m ea 

 these States. 



