Table 31.— Land area by major classes of land, Kentucky, 1949 



Class of land 



Thousand acres 



Forest: 



11,446 



Noncommercial: 



Reserved from comrnercJal timber use 



51 













Total forest land . 



11,497 





14,016 







Total, all classes . . . , 



25,513 







Table Z^.—Net volume of live sawtimber and growing stock on 

 commercial forest land by stand-size class, Kentucky. 1949 



Table S2.— Commercial forest land area by ozunership and 

 stand-size classes, Kentucky, 1949 



[Thousand acres, i.e. 000 omitted] 



Ownership class 



Total 



Saw- 

 timber 

 stands 



Pole- 

 timber 

 stands 



Seedling 



and sapling 



stands 



Non- 

 stocked 1 



Federal: 



National forest 



Indian . . 



406 







217 



227 







101 



148 







80 



31 







31 





 



Other 









Total 



State 



County and municipal. . 

 Private 



623 

 53 



m 



10,770 



328 

 28 



228 

 18 



62 



5 



5 

 2 



4,608 



3,794 



1,763 



605 







All ownerships 



11,446 



4,964 



4,040 



1,830 



612 



1 Includes areas not classified elsewhere. 



2 Included in private ownership (590 acres) 



Table 33.— Area of commercial forest land by major forest 

 types, Kentucky, 1949 



Stand-size class 



Sawtimber 



Growing 

 stock 



Sawtimber stands 



Million bd. ft. 



21,308 



2,932 



352 



63 



Million cu. ft. 

 4,672.6 

 1,744 1 



Seedling and sapling stands 



Nonstocked and other areas not classified elsewhere. 



121 5 

 31 6 



Total 



24,655 



6,569.8 



Table 35.— A'ef volume of live sawtimber and growing stock on 

 coinmercial forest land by ownership class, Kentucky, 1949 



Ownership class 



Sawtimber 



Grow 



ing stock 



Federal: 



National forest . 



Million bd.ft. 



1,109 







476 



Milh 



071 cu. ft. 

 288.9 



Indian . . 







Other 



132.9 



Total. .. 



1,585 

 141 



(1) 





421 N 





36.- 



County and municipal 



(=) 



Private; 

 Farm ... 



11,671 

 11,258 





3,110 9 



Industrial and other 



3,000 9 



Total 



22,929 





6.111 8 







Total, all ownerships 



24.655 





6,569.8 



1 Less than 0.5 million board feet. 



2 Less than 0.05 million cubic feet. 



Forest type 



Thousand acres 



Pine 



Redcedar-hardwoods. . . . 



Oak-pine. 



Oak-hickory 



White oak 



Beech-maple 



Mixed hardw oods 



Bottom-land hardwoods. 



Total 



234 

 490 

 726 



5,186 

 311 

 393 



3,603 

 503 



11,446 



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Forest Resource Report No. 7 . U. S. Departmeyit of Agriculture 



