180 



THE NATIONAL FOREST RESERVES 



Forest, Woodland, Treeless, and Improved Areas in Western PabUc-land States* 



a Report of the Secretary of Agriculture for 1893, pp. 317, 318. 



6 Abstract of the Eleventh Census, 1890, Washington, 1894, pp. 62, 63. 



The figures given in this table have been used in tlie construc- 

 tion of the following diagram, which brings to the eye graphic- 

 ally the relative area of the different states and territories of the 

 West and also the amount and proportion of the various classes 

 of land. The length of the horizontal bar opposite the name of 

 each state and territory is made proportional to the area of this 

 political division. Each bar is divided into three or four divis- 

 ions, the open or white part being proportional to the extent of 

 the treeless land, the cross-hatched portion proportional to the 

 area of the woodland, and the solid black to that of the forest. 

 To the right of this in a few cases, notably in California, is given 

 the relative extent of improved land. In some of the other states 

 this is so small that it can scarcely be distinguished. 



*The Public Lands and their Water Supply, by F. H. Novvell. Extract from the 16th 

 Annual Report of the U. S. Geological Survey, part ii, p. 482. 



