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TIMBER RESOURCES FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE 



the Federal Government but administered 

 and managed for Indian tribal groups, or 

 allotted in trust to individual Indians. 



Bureau of Land Management. Federal 

 property administered by the Bureau of 

 Land Management in the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of the Interior. 



Other Federal. Other property owned 

 or administered by the Federal Govern- 

 ment. 



State ownership. Property in State owner- 

 ship or under lease to a State for 50 years or 

 more. 



County and municipal ownership. Prop- 

 erty in county, municipal, or other local 

 public ownership. 



Private ownership. Property in one of the 

 following types of private ownership: 



Farm. Land in farms as defined by the 

 Census of Agriculture, with these excep- 

 tions: (a) Indian reservation farms (classi- 

 fied as land in Federal ownership or trustee- 

 ship), (b) public institutional, experiment 

 station, and other public land in farms 

 (classified as land in specified public owner- 

 ship), (c) certain large acreages of grazing 

 lands in the West, leased from railroads or 

 other nonfarmers without transfer of timber 

 cutting rights to the lessee (classified as 

 land in forest industry or other private 

 ownership). 



In the 1950 Census of Agriculture, a farm 

 was a place of three or more acres producing 

 agricultural products in 1949, exclusive of 

 home gardens, valued at $150 or more. 

 The agricultural products could have been 

 either for home use or for sale. Places of 

 less than three acres were counted as farms 

 only if the value of sales of agricultural 

 products in 1949 was $150 or more. Places 

 operated in 1949 for which the value of 

 agricultural products in 1949 was less than 

 these minima because of crop failure or 

 other unusual situation, and places operated 

 in 1950 for the first time, were counted as 

 farms if normally they could be expected 

 to produce these minimum quantities of 

 farm products. All the land under the 

 control of one person or partnership, 

 through ownership, lease, rental, or cropping 

 arrangement, was included as one farm 

 ownership. Commercial forest land in 

 farms is not the same as woodland in farms 

 as reported by the Census. Part of the 

 difference is due to the exceptions to land 

 in farms, stated above. However, the 

 major part of the difference arises because 

 some of the woodland in farms is noncom- 

 mercial forest land. In some cases, lands 

 that qualify as commercial forest land were 



classed as pasture or waste lands by the 

 Census. 



Forest industries. Property of forest 

 owners who operate primary wood-proces- 

 sing plants and who apparently obtain 

 more of their income from the sale of wood 

 products than from any other single source, 

 or who operate wood-processing subsidiary 

 corporations that derive income chiefly 

 from the sale of wood products. Includes 

 industries comprised of the following kinds 

 of manufacturers: 



Lumber manufacturer. A forest owner 

 who manufactures lumber and who uses a 

 greater cubic volume of timber from his 

 land for this purpose than in any other 

 type of primary wood-processing plant 

 that he may operate. 



Pulp manufacturer. A forest owner 

 who manufactures pulp and who uses a 

 greater cubic volume of timber from his 

 land for this purpose than in any other 

 type of primary wood-processing plant 

 that he maj^ operate. 



Other wood manufacturer. A forest 

 owner who manufactures veneer, cooper- 

 age, or other wood products except pulp 

 and lumber. 



Other private ownership. Private prop- 

 erty, other than that classified as farm or 

 forest industry ownership, such as property 

 owned by business and professional persons, 

 wage earners, housewives, retired persons, 

 nonforest industries, estates, and dealers in 

 forest land. 

 Ownership size classes. A classification of 

 private commercial forest land based on the acre- 

 age of commercial forest land in an ownership, 

 regardless of the number of tracts that comprise it. 

 Small. An ownership of less than 5,000 

 acres of commercial forest land. Ownerships of 

 less than 3 acres in the East and of less than 10 

 acres in the West were not enumerated, nor was 

 the productivity of their cutover lands deter- 

 mined, though their acreage is included in the 

 commercial forest area of small ownerships. 



Medium. An ownership of 5,000 to 50,000 

 acres of commercial forest land. 



Large. An ownership of 50,000 or more 

 acres of commercial forest land. 

 Physical-structure raw materials. All the raw 

 materials not used as food or as a soiu'ce of heat, 

 light, and mechanical energy. The physical- 

 structure materials include: (a) all metals except 

 gold and those used in production of atomic energy, 

 (b) all the nonmetallic-nonfuel minerals, (c) all 

 the fibers, (d) all the plastics, and (e) all timber 

 products except fuelwood. The physical-structure 

 materials provide the substance of the things we 

 make and use. 



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