TABIE 2 - FOREST LAND BY ACREAGE AND OWNERSHIP CLASS, 

 ALBEMARLE AREA AND NORTHERN COASTAL PLAIN, NORTH CAROLINA, 1963 



(In Thousand Acres) 



Ownership Class 



ALBEMARLE AREA NORTHERN COASTAL PLAIN 



Acres Percent 



Acres 



Percent 



Private 



National Forest 



Other Public 



F armer s 



Lumber Companies 



Pulp & Paper Companies 



Other Commercial 



24 

 3 

 1 



47 

 3 



21 

 1 



TOTAL 



1,399 



100 



4,294 



100 



State wide, forest industries own about 15 percent of the total 

 forest land, but in the Albemarle Area 37 percent is owned by 

 forest industries. Private ownership of timber land (private plus 

 farmers) amounts to 61 percent in the Albemarle Area contrasted 

 with 77 percent in the state. 



Trends in the Forest Resource 



The Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has 



conducted three surveys in the Northern Coastal Plain to inventory 

 the extent and condition of forest lands and the volume of timber 



on them and to ascertain rates of forest growth and depletion. 



These surveys were prepared in 1937, 1955, and 1963. The summary 



of findings in the 1963 survey for the Northern Coastal Plain are 

 as f o 1 1 ows : 



"The recently completed third Forest Survey shows a continua- 

 tion of the general improvement in the timber supply indicated by 

 the second survey. 



