552 



TIMBER RESOURCES FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE 



Table 24. — Commercial forest land area in private oivnership in the United States and Coastal Alaska, 



' Because some owners have various size holdings in one or more regions, 

 the determination of size class of private ownership and area owned was based 

 on the total commercial forest land area in the ownership, and number of 

 owners on the total number within each ownership class, whether for a region, 



section, or for the country as a whole. Thus, except for small ownerships, 

 regional totals do not add to sectional totals that give the proper ownership 

 distribution on a sectional basis, nor do sectional total? add to national totals 

 that show correct ownership distribution for the entire country. 



