Table 1 (cont'd) 



Forest land ?7 



County 



Land 



1/ 



Commer- 

 cial 3/ 



Noncommercial 4/ 



Productive: 

 reserve 5/: 



Unproduc- 

 tive 1/ 



Commercial 

 forest as 

 a percent 

 of area 



Change in 

 forest land 

 since 1953 



Change in 

 commercial 

 forest land 

 since 1953 



Thousand Thousand 



Thousand Thousand 



Percent 



Thousand 



Thousand 





acres 



acres 



acres 



acres 



acres 





acres 



acres 



Pope 



435.8 



18.2 



17.2 



- 



1.0 



3.9 



+3.3 



+2.4 



Ramsey 



102.4 



8.7 



6.6 



- 



2.1 



6.4 



+ 1.9 



- .2 



Red Lake 



276.5 



43.1 



36.9 



.1 



6.1 



13.3 



-9.8 



-15.8 



Redwood 



559.3 



10.9 



10.3 



- 



.6 



1.8 



-4.3 



-4.7 



Renville 



627.2 



15.0 



14.2 



- 



.8 



2.3 



-1.5 



-2.3 



Rice 



316.8 



25.7 



23.0 



.5 



2.2 



7.3 



+4.8 



+2.1 



Rock 



310.4 



2.0 



1.9 



- 



.1 



.6 



+ .2 



+ .1 



Roseau 



1,072.6 



336.6 



271.0 



- 



65.6 



25.3 



-37.0 



-99.3 



St. Louis 



4,019.8 



3,464.6 



3,204.3 



95.2 



165.1 



79.7 



+4.9 



-29.6 



Scott 



225.3 



27.0 



23.6 



- 



3.4 



10.5 



-1.0 



-2.4 



Sherburne 



280.3 



59.1 



42.3 



- 



16.8 



15.1 



+ .6 



-16.2 



Sibley 



371.8 



24.9 



23.5 



- 



1.4 



6.3 



+5.0 



+3.7 



Stearns 



867.8 



103.1 



78.2 



- 



24.9 



9.0 



+8.6 



-15.8 



Steele 



272.0 



10.5 



9.7 



.2 



.6 



3.6 



+2.4 



+1.7 



Stevens 



364.8 



2.5 



2.4 



- 



.1 



.7 



-.8 



-.9 



Swift 



478.1 



8.4 



7.8 



.1 



.5 



1.6 



-2.9 



-3.3 



Todd 



606.1 



147.6 



128.3 



- 



19.3 



21.2 



-17.1 



-36.4 



Traverse 



366.1 



2.6 



2.5 



- 



.1 



.7 



-.3 



-.4 



Wabasha 



333.4 



65.3 



51.6 



.1 



13.6 



15.5 



+ .4 



-10.0 



Wadena 



343.0 



132.5 



130.0 



.7 



1.8 



37.9 



-8.1 



-10.6 



Waseca 



265.6 



12.3 



11.6 



- 



.7 



4.4 



-2.3 



-2.9 



Washington 



249.6 



33.3 



26.9 



.4 



6.0 



10.8 



+2.5 



-3.8 



Watonwan 



277.1 



5.4 



5.1 



- 



.3 



1.8 



+ 1.1 



+ .8 



Wilkin 



481.3 



2.1 



2.0 



- 



.1 



.4 



-.4 



-.5 



Winona 



398.7 



114.7 



96.5 



.9 



17.3 



24.2 



-1.3 



-13.6 



Wright 



Yellow Medicine 



429.5 

 485.1 



49.4 

 10.5 



42.6 

 9.9 



- 



6.8 

 .6 



9.9 

 2.0 



-3.1 

 -.2 



-9.9 

 -.8 



State total 



51,205.8 



19,047.4 



17,062.0 



503.1 



1,482.3 



33.3 



-296.3 



-1,035.6 



1960 Bureau of Census. 



Land at least 10 percent stocked by forest trees 

 of any size, or formerly having such tree cover, 

 and not currently developed for nonforest use. 

 Does not include lands currently developed for 

 nonforest use such as urban or thickly settled 

 residential or resort areas, city parks, orchards, 

 improved roads, or improved pasturelands. The 

 minimum area classified as forest land was 1 

 acre. Roadside, streamside, and shelterbelt strips 

 of timber with crown width of 120 feet wide 

 qualified as forest land. Unimproved roads and 

 trails, streams, and clearings in forest areas 

 were classified as forest if less than 120 feet 

 in width. 



Forest land which is producing or capable of 

 producing crops of industrial wood and not 

 ivithdrawn from timber utilization. 

 Unproductive forest land incapable of yielding 

 crops of industrial wood because of adverse site 

 conditions and productive public forest land 

 withdrawn from commercial timber use through 

 statute or administrative regulation. 

 Productive public forest land withdrawn from 

 timber utilization through statute or admini- 

 strative regulation. 



Forest land incapable of yielding crops of in- 

 dustrial wood because of adverse site conditions. 

 Differs slightly from published Koochiching 

 County Report due to computer rounding. 



