Inventory Acreage 



The inventory acreage for Montana comprises 65,518,178 acres or 

 about 70 percent of the State. This is an increase of 576,284 acres 

 from the 1958 inventory, most of which came from the sale of isolated 

 tracts in Federal ownership, the inclusion of Indian lands within 

 reservation boundaries, and cropland in Federal ownership under lease. 

 Land use within the inventory acreage consists of: 



Cropland 14,988,775 acres or 22 percent 



Range & Pasture 43,005,287 acres or 66 percent 



Woodland 7,003,910 acres or 11 percent 



Other land* 520,206 acres or 1 percent 



* Other land includes farmsteads, private roads, 

 feed lots, ditch banks, rural non-farm resi- 

 dences, mine wastes, borrow pits and investment 

 tracts. 



Refer to Table 2 for acreage by Land Use included in the 

 inventory, 1958 and 1967, 



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