Table 2. — Stand-size class and stocking density on commercial forest 

 land, hy aeographic division, Minnesota, 1953 





Total 





Division 





Stand-size class 



North- 

 eastern 



South- 

 eastern 



Western 



Sawtimber stands 



Thou- 

 sand 

 acres 

 2,017 

 5,281 



4,646 

 1,671 

 4,483 



Percent 

 11 

 29 



1 '' 

 25 



Thou- 

 sand 

 acres 

 1,008 

 4,327 



1 4,005 



1 1.405 



3,681 



Thou- 

 sand 

 acres 

 732 

 580 



333 

 107 

 414 



Thou- 

 sand 

 acres 

 277 





374 



Seedling and sapling stands: 

 Medium to well-stocked 



308 

 159 



Nonstocked ' 



388 







All stands . 



18,098 



100 



14,426 



2,166 



1 506 







' Includes 2,735,000 acres of deforested swamp. 



Original Sojlwood Forests .\ow Partly Displaced by Aspen 

 and Brush 



Only one-fourth of the commercial forest acreage is 

 now occupied by softwood timber types — pine, spruce, 

 spruce-fir, tamarack, and cedar — whereas, more than 

 one-half of the original forest was softwood. Of the 

 rest, one-fourth is nonstocked and one-half is hard- 



7% 



WESTERN 



Forest lond 



I I Nonforest land 



Fici'RE 4. — Proportion of forest and nonforest lands for the major 

 forest divisions of the State. 



Figure 5. — The southeastern division is primarily a farming country but has 20 percent of the land woodnl. Ash, elm, and cotlonwood follow ll.- 

 streambanks. Maple, oak, and basswood groves occupy untitled upland parts of the farms. A few tamarack swamps and occasional windbreak 

 plantings of spruce or pine make up virtually the only softwood forests in the division. {Photo courtesy Mark Hurd Aerial Surveys.) 



Forest Resource Report Xo. 13, U. /S. Department of Agriculture 



