310 



TIMBER RESOURCES FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE 



make up about two-thirds of the combined hold- 

 ings suggests that they too support significantly 

 heavier stands of sawtimber than do farm holdings. 



Private Ownerships Are 

 Heterogeneous 



Farm forest owners engage in many types of 

 crop and livestock farming. The miscellaneous 

 ■'other" private owners vary even more as to 

 occupation, residence, intent of ownership, and 

 interest in forestry. Management decisions of 

 these miscellaneous owners undoubtedly are af- 

 fected by these factors, but wliich factors are of 

 most importance from the standpoint of designing 

 forestry programs is not fully known at this time. 



Other Private Ownerships Represent 

 Many Occupations 



The diversity of occupations of "other" private 

 forest landowners, as determined by independent 

 ownership studies in a number of sample areas, is 

 illustrated in table 177. Although definitions used 

 in these studies differed somewhat and percentages 

 consequently are not strictly comparable, in all of 

 the areas studied business and professional people 

 made up the principal class of "other" private own- 

 er in terms of forest area held. This was also fre- 

 quently true in terms of number of owners. In- 

 cluded in business and professional classes were 

 lawyers, teachers, physicians, merchants, sales- 



Table 177. — Distribution of number' of "other" private owners of commercial forest land and of areas owned, 

 by occupational groups, in selected areas of the United States ' 



Occupational group 



23 New England 



towns 2 



Tennessee 

 Valleys 



Central Missis- 

 sippi ^ 



5 areas in Arkan- 

 sas, Louisiana, 

 and Mississippi ^ 



Northwest Cali- 

 fornia * 





Owners 



Area 



Owners 



Area 



Owners 



Area 



Owners 



Area 



Owners 



Area 



Business and profes- 

 sional people , 



Wage and salary 



earners 



Housewives 



Retired persons 



Dealers in forest land 



Xonforest industries 



Miscellaneous 



Percent 

 31.3 



27. 



15. 1 



15. 4 



4.3 



1. 1 



5. 8 



Percent 

 36. 7 



14. 5 

 10.5 

 16. 6 

 5.5 

 5. 9 

 10. 3 



Percent 

 23.5 



50. 4 

 19.3 



(') 



1. 4 

 5. 4 



Percent 

 35.9 



26. 4 

 15. 1 



(') 

 {') 



15. 1 

 7.5 



Percent 

 18.4 



57. 5 

 18.0 

 {') 



1. 1 

 (') 



5. 



Percent 

 48. 1 



18. 5 

 23.8 



(') 



2.8 

 (') 



6.8 



Percent 

 38.6 



24. 8 

 22. 9 



13. 7 



(") 

 (■) 



Percent 

 51. 4 



17. 2 

 17.0 

 14. 4 



Percent 

 38.5 



22.5 

 7.2 



18. 5 



{') 



13. 3 



Percent 

 68. 



5.8 

 2. 9 



9.4 

 (') 

 (') 

 13. 9 











Total 



100. 



100. 



100.0 



100. 



100. 



100. 



100. 



100. 



100.0 



100.0 



Size of sample 



Number 

 1,387 



Acres 

 160, 873 



Aht mher 

 300 



Acres 



Number 

 350 



Acres 



Number 

 306 



Acres 

 31, 507 



Number 



Acres 



' Excluding farm, forest industries, and unclassified 

 ownerships. 



2 Source: The Oumership of Small Private Forest-Land 

 Holdings in 23 Neiv England Towns, by Solon Barraclough 

 and James C. Rettie. U. S. Forest Serv. Northeast. 

 Forest Expt. Sta. Paper 34. 1950. [Processed.] Limited to 

 holdings of 10 to 12,000 acres of which only 3 were larger 

 than 5,000 acres. The business and professional group 

 included owners of recreational businesses, banks and 

 other financial units, and students. Miscellaneous owners 

 included clubs, institutions, and unsettled estates. 



' Source: Private Forest Management in the Tennessee 

 Valley, by Tenn. Val. Authority. Norris, Tenn. 1954. 

 The business and professional group included mercantile, 

 professional, and financial owners. 



■* Source: Private Forest Landownerships and Manage- 

 ment in Central Mississippi, by Lee M. James, William 

 P. Hoffman, and Monty A. Payne. Miss. Agr. Expt. Sta. 

 Tech. Bui. 33. State College, Miss. 1951. Retired per- 

 sons were included in other groups according to their 

 former occupations. The miscellaneous group included 

 unsettled estates, banks, churches, clubs, aTid unemployed 

 workers. 



5 Source: Private Forest Land Ownership and Manage 

 ment in the Loblolly-Shortleaf Type in Southern Arkansas, 

 Northern Louisiana, and Central Mississippi, by H. H- 

 Chamberlin, L. A. Sample, and Ralph W. Haves. La. 

 Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui. 393. Baton Rouge, La. 1945. The 

 business and professional group included teachers, lawyers, 

 physicians, preachers, pharmacists, salesmen, bankers, 

 and gasoline filling station operators. The area distri- 

 bution was based on acreage of pine land owned rather 

 than on total commercial forest land. 



^ Estimate obtained b3- combining statistics from Owner- 

 ship and Use of Forest Land in the Coast Range Pine Sub- 

 region of California with statistics from Ownership and 

 Use of Forest Land in the Redwood-Douglas-Fir Subregion 

 of California, both bv Adon Poli and Harold L. Baker. 

 (J. S. Forest Serv. Calif. Forest and Range Expt. Sta. Tech. 

 Paper 2, 1953; and Tech. Paper 7, 1954. [Processed.] 



" No separate estimate given. If identified, these owner- 

 ships might have been included in "Miscellaneous" occu- 

 pational group. 



8 Not published. 



