ship maps were prepared.! A sample survey was 
made of ownership in the remainder of the State. 
Eighty-two percent of the commercial forest 
land and 95 percent of that owned by the public 
and forest industries is in the three northeastern 
survey units. Farmer and miscellaneous private 
ownership varies from 15 percent in the Rainy 
River Unit to 90 percent in the Southeastern Unit. 
Public ownership in the Western Unit is largely 
confined to Mahnomen and Roseau Counties. 
In the 18 northern counties about 45 percent 
of the commercial forest land is divided nearly 
1 Ownership maps of Itasca, St. Louis, Beltrami, Crow 
Wing, Aitkin, Koochiching, Lake, Cook, and Cass 
Counties have been published. They are available 
from the Office of Iron Range Resources and Re- 
habilitation, 60 State Office Building, St. Paul, 
Minnesota, 55101. 
April 1964 7 
equally between county ownership and state own- 
ership (table 2). Both hold substantial acreages in 
each of these counties. Miscellaneous private own- 
ership is the third largest class with 19.5 percent 
of commercial forest land. These holdings are 
widely scattered. National Forests are next with 
14.9 percent, concentrated in six counties — St. 
Louis, Lake, Cook, Itasca, Cass, and Beltrami. Two- 
thirds of the forest industry land occurs in just 
three counties — Koochiching, St. Louis, and Lake. 
Distribution of total land in the northern coun- 
ties by ownership classes is similar to that for 
commercial forest land. Ninety percent or more 
of the lands held by forest industries and counties 
are commercial forest. Only 39 percent of farmer- 
owned lands in the 18 northern counties is com- 
mercial forest, while about three-fourths of the 
total holdings of other owners is so classified. 
/ALEXANDER ut WASILEVSKY, Forester 
_ Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation 
ROBERT N. STONE, /Research Forester 
Lake States Forest Experiment Station 
