PRESENT FOREST CONDITIONS 



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Opposite this page is given a map showing the location of the 

 four forest regions into which New England is divided. Actu- 

 ally, on the ground, no such fixed boundaries can exist as are 

 traced on the map. In reality for several miles along the border 

 line between two regions it may be hard to distinguish within 

 which of the two a particular tract lies. 



Thus the map is intended to indicate only the general location 

 and relative area occupied by each region, rather than to furnish 

 definite boundary lines between regions. 



The total area of the New England States is 42,537,600 acres. ^ 

 Included in this Is 2,874,880 acres of water surface, the remain- 

 der, 39,662,720 acres being land surface. In giving the areas 

 for the four forest regions water surfaces have been left out, and 

 the figures given in the table are the approximate areas of land 

 surface in the different regions. The area and per cent forested 

 are given for each region as well as the per cent of New England 

 occupied by the region. 



TABLE SHOWING FORESTED AREAS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



- Forested area includes waste land and brush land. 



The spruce region lies to the north in Maine, New Hampshire, 

 and Vermont, a large share of Its area being in Maine. It is 

 largely a region of conifers. The chief trees here are the red 

 spruce, the balsam, and the northern white cedar (Thuja occi- 

 dentalis) . 



1 Based on the figures given in the United States Census for 1900. 



