TABLE 5— LAND AREA BY FOREST LAND CLASS- -TEN-COUNTY STUDY AREA 

 CLARK FORK OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN 



Land Class 



Thousand Acres 



Conunercial forest land _!/ 



Unregulated 

 Deferred 2/ 



Noncommercial forest land: 



Unproductive-nonreserved 

 Productive-reserved 3/ 

 Unproductive- reserved 



Total forest land 



Nonforest land 



Total land area 



7,823 



36 

 100 



833 

 863 

 749 



10,404 



3,090 



13,494 



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Source: Forest Survey 



1970 



1/ Includes all areas presently or prospectively suitable and available 

 for timber growing, including productive areas currently inoperable or 

 inaccessible but not in wilderness or potential wilderness areas. 



2/ Areas deferred pending study to determine appropriate land use. 

 Since 1970 about 2,297,000 acres of commercial and noncommercial National 

 Forest land have been designated as roadless areas. About 1,387,000 acres 

 of this are commercial forest. 



3/ Forest land sufficiently productive to qualify as commercial forest 

 land, but withdrawn from timber utilization because of (a) legal with- 

 drawals, (b) administrative withdrawals such as forested administrative 

 sites, natural, areas, lands not available for timber production because 

 of conflicts for nontimber uses. 



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