— 



172 



197 



— 



167,411 



3,500 



34,828 



122,779 



3,118 



9,950 



9,181 



9,866 



95,042 



1,103 



43,471 



77,401 



1,028 



1,802 



1,571 



4,460 



9,812 



1,209 



2,105 



41,517 



Appendix table 1 — Land and water areas in the United States, by region and class of land and water^ 



Class of North- North South- South Rocl<y Great Pacific 



land and water Total east Central east Central Mountain Plains Coast^ Alaska 



1 ,000 acres 



Land (Non-Federal) 



Rangeland^ 441,466 16 238 4,192 111,365 168,407 74,080 33,212 49,956 



Forest land'^ 487,547 82,262 73,158 78,897 113,893 40,458 3,129 44,020 51,730 

 Other land^ 692,720 40,393 201,354 53,382 147,516 66,789 111,279 50,351 21,656 



Total 1,621,733 122,671 274,750 136,471 372,774 275,654 188,488 127,583 123,342 



Land (Federal) 



Rangeland 328,887 

 Forest land 249,134 

 Other land 63,504 



Total 641,525 4,146 11,924 10,949 14,326 272,265 5,812 80,404 241,697 



All land 



Rangeland 770,353 16 410 4,389 111,365 335,818 77,580 68,040 172,735 



Forest land 736,681 85,380 83,108 88,078 123,760 135,499 4,232 87,492 129,131 



Other land 756,224 41,421 203,156 54,953 151,976 76,601 112,488 52,456 63,173 



Totalland 2,263,258 126,817 286,674 147,420 387,101 547,918 194,300 207,988 365,039 



Water 



Total water 160,682 14,322 42,475 15,016 14,140 4,795 2,480 12,381 55,073 



Total Land 



and Water 2,423,940 141,139 329,149 162,436 401,241 552,713 196,780 220,369 420,112 



— = not available. 



^ Data for range land as of 1982; data on other land and water as of 1990; data for forest land as of 1992. 



^ Includes Hawaii 



^ Land on which the climax vegetation (potential natural plant community) is predominantly grasses, 

 grasslike plants, forbs, or shrubs suitable for grazing and browsing. It includes natural grasslands, 

 savannas, many wetlands, somedeserts, tundra, and certain forbs, and shrub communities. It also include 

 areas seeded to native or adapted introduced species that are managed like native vegetation. 



"* Land at least 10 percent stocked by forest trees of any size, or formerly having had such tree cover and 

 not currently developed for nonforest use. The minimum area for classification of forest land is 1 acre and 

 must be at least 100 feet wide. Forest land is distinguished from rangeland in transition vegetation types if 

 the tree canopy cover exceeds 10 percent. Forest lands include cutover areas temporily unstocked as well 

 as young stands and plantations established for forestry purposes which do not yet have 10 percent crown 

 cover. 



^ Includes crop and pasture land and other. Cropland is defined as land used for the production of adapted 

 crops for harvest, alone or in rotation with grasses and legumes. Adapted crops include row crops, small 

 grain crops, hay crops, nursery crops, orchard and vineyard crops, and other similar specialty crops. 

 Pasture land is definded as land used primarily for the production of adapted, introduced, or native forage 

 plants for livestock grazing. Pasture land may consist of single species in a pure stand, grass mixture, or a 

 grass-legume mixture. Culture treatment in the form of fertilization, weed control, reseeding, or renovation 

 is usually a part of pasture management in addition to grazing management. Native pasture is included in 

 pasture land in these land area statistics. Other land is defined as a category of land cover and land use 

 that includes farmsteads, other land in farms, strip mines, quarries, gravel pits, borrow pits, permanent 

 snow and ice, small built-up areas, and all other land that does not fit into any other land cover or land-use 

 category. 



Sources: Forest land: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service. 1993. Forest Resources of 

 the United States. Rangeland: USDA Forest Service estimates based on data supplied by the USDA Soil 

 Conservation Service and USDA Forest Service reconciled data, 1982. Other land and water: U.S. 

 Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 



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