A SUMMARY OF THE TIMBER RESOURCE REVIEW 



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FEDERAL . . . 21% 

 STATE-LOCAL . . . 6% 



FOREST 

 INDUSTRIES . . . 



FARM . . . 34% 



OTHER . . . 26% 



103.1 MIL ACRES 

 27.2 MIL. ACRES 



62.4 MIL. ACRES 



165.2 MIL. ACRES 



130.7 MIL. ACRES 



Figure 13 



includes Coastal Alaska 



Public ownerships ^ account for one-fourth of 

 all commercial forest land, with the largest con- 

 centration in the national forests. The national 

 forests contain 17 percent of the national total 

 (table 16). 



The 23,500 forest industry owners comprise one- 

 half of one percent of the total number of owner- 

 ships and hold 13 percent of the forest land. They 

 are exceeded, both as to acreage owned and 

 number of ownerships, by farm and also by "other" 

 private ownership. 



The pattern of ownership varies widely in differ- 

 ent parts of the country. Farm ownership and 

 other nonforest industry private ownership is con- 

 centrated in the North and in the South. Forest 

 industry is concentrated in the South where one- 



• Including lands held in trust by the Federal Govern- 

 ment for the Indians. 



half of all forest industry ownership occurs, the 

 balance being rather equally distributed between 

 the North and the West. Public ownership, on 

 the other hand, is least in the South, and greatest 

 in the West. It is of interest too that in the West 

 farm and "other" private ownership together 

 greatly exceed, and individually nearly equal, the 

 area owned by forest industries. In no section of 

 the country is forest industry tlie predominant 

 ownership areamse. 



The three-fourths of the commercial forest land 

 which is in private ownership is distributed among 

 4.5 million owners, of whom 3.4 million, or 75 

 percent, are farm owners. Thus, this group is the 

 largest single identifiable class, controlling one- 

 third of the total commercial forest land, and 

 making up three-fourths of the number of owners 

 (table 17). 



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