

292 



TIMBER RESOURCES FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE 



PRIVATE 



lumber 

 manufacturer 



pulp 

 manufacturer 



other wood 

 manufacturer 



farm 



other private 



PUBLIC 



national forest 



other federal | 

 state and local 







north 



south 



nwest and 

 Coastal Alaska 



25 



50 



75 100 125 150 175 

 MILLION ACRES 



Figure 94 



Private Lands Chiefly in 

 Small Holdings 



The private commercial forest lands in the Na- 

 tion are widely dispersed in an estimated 4,510,500 

 separate ownerships (table 164). Although indi- 

 vidual holdings of forest land vary widely in size 

 from 3 acres to more than 2 million, the average 

 private ownership is only 79 acres. 



"Small" holdings of less than 5,000 acres are of 

 particular importance. More than half of the 

 total commercial forest land in the country — or 

 265 million acres — is in these small private hold- 

 ings (table 164 and fig. 95). A quarter of the 

 total commercial forest area is in private holdings 

 of less than 100 acres. 



"Medium"-size ownerships of 5,000 to 50,000 

 acres of forest land account for about 7 percent of 



