102 TIMBER TRENDS IN THE UNITED STATES 



Table 69. — Commercial forest land in the United States, by type of ownership and section, Jan. 1, 1963 



Type of ownership 



Total U.S. 



North 



South 



Rocky 

 Mountains 



Pacific 





Area 



Proportion 



coast 



Federal: 



National forest 



Thousand 



acres 



96,804 



5,426 



6,461 



4,485 



Percent 



19 



1 

 1 

 1 



Thousand 



acres 



10,265 



81 



1,198 



964 



Thousand 



acres 



10,476 



27 



251 



3,308 



Thousand 



acres 



43,398 



2,076 



2,816 



31 



Thousand 

 acres 

 32,665 



Bureau of Land Management 



Bureau of Indian Affairs 



Other Federal 



3,242 



2,196 



182 







Total FederaL __ 



113,176 



22 



12,508 



14,062 



48,321 



38,285 







State __- ___ 



20,844 

 7,848 



35,022 



26,113 



5,493 



4 

 2 



7 

 5 



1 



12,751 

 6,748 



10,797 



2,996 



523 



2,164 

 656 



21,614 



12,551 



3,257 



2,340 

 83 



2^535" 



3.589 



County and municipal 



Forest industry: 



Pulp and paper 



Lumber 



Other _ _ 



361 



2,611 

 8,031 

 1,713 









Total industry 



66,628 



13 



14,316 



37,422 



2,535 



12,355 



Farm 



Miscellaneous private 



151,017 

 149,332 



30 

 29 



55.503 

 69,963 



78,897 

 67,868 



8,769 

 3,575 



7,848 

 7,926 



A.11 ownerships 



508,845 



100 



171,789 



201,069 



65,623 



70,364 



Public forest holdings contain a relatively large 

 proportion of the Nation's timber inventory. 

 The national forests alone, with 19 percent of the 

 commercial area, include 46 percent of the saw- 

 timber and 37 percent of the total growing stock 

 (table 70 and fig. 45). In the West, where most 

 of these public forests are concentrated, even 

 larger proportions of the growing stock inventory 

 are in national forests and other public owner- 

 ships — 69 percent on the Pacific coast, for example. 



Forest Industry 



wnership Increasing 



Forest industries own 13 percent of the com- 

 mercial forest land, including some of the most 

 productive timberlands in the Nation. These 

 industrial forests contain 16 percent of the saw- 

 timber volume. 



Nearly 60 percent of the industrially owned 

 forest lands are in the South and close to 20 

 percent on the Pacific coast (table 69). On the 

 other hand, over 62 percent of the industrially 

 owned sawtimber is in the Pacific coast section 

 (table 70). Lands held by wood-using industries 

 are largely in holdings of more than 50,000 acres. 



Pulp and paper companies, with 35 million 

 acres of forest land largely concentrated in the 

 South, represent the largest class of industrial 



AREA, VOLUME, AND CUT, 

 BY OWNERSHIP 



GROWING STOCK 

 National Forest 



!Cut 



Farm & Miscellaneous 



_i I I I I I I I 



60 40 20 20 40 



(Percent of U.S. Total) 



Figure 45 



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