PRESENT CONDITION OF FOREST AREAS. 



47 



Improved and forest land in the United Slates — Continued, 





Ai ea. 





Per cent. 



Brush 

 land. 







Total land 

 surface. 



Improved 

 land an 

 farms. 



Tmpro\ cd 

 laud. 



Pirusli, 

 forest, ' 

 and waste 

 land. | 



Probably 



foieht. 



48 

 54 

 45 

 50 



Open 

 country. 





Acres. 

 25, ObO, 000 

 31, 089, 000 

 19, 308, 000 

 38, 047, COO 



i 



Acres. 

 9, 125, 000 

 7, 828, 000 

 5, 255, 000 

 9, 582, 000 



35 

 25 



27 

 24 



03 



75 

 73 

 76 































114,724,000 



31,790,000 



27 

 3") 



73 



fl7 



77 

 77 

 87 



49 















225, 835, 000 



78, 298, 000 



43 















34,713,000 

 32, 980, 000 

 29, 058, 000 

 29, 069, 000 



1, 145, 000 

 7, 69h, 000 

 6, S49, 000 

 3, 775, 000 



a 



23 

 23 

 13 



58 

 53 

 44 

 45 

































126, 42G, 000 



19, 407, 000 



16 



84 | 



[ 50 















167, 808, 000 



20, 746, 000 



32 



88 



23 















30, 755, 000 

 34, 848, 000 

 50, 091, 000 



9, 865, 000 



9, 793, 000 



11, 128, 000 



26 



28 

 21 



74 

 72 

 79 



50 

 47 

 36 





















" 







122,294,000 



30, 786, 000 



25 



75 



| 43 



1 16~ 

 1 35 



| 30 













Ohio. .. 



26, 086, 000 

 22, 982, 000 

 35, 840, 000 



18, 338, 000 

 15, 107, 000 

 25, 669, 000 



71 

 65 

 71 



29 

 35 

 29 



























84, 908, 000 



59, 114, 000 



09 



t)X 



i 13 















207, 202, 000 



89, 900, 000 



4.1 



57 



31 













West Virginia 



35,772,000 



25, 600, 000 



26, 720, 000 

 33,949,000 

 43, 990, 000 



4, 554, 000 



11,819,000 



9, 302, 000 



5, 475, 000 



19, 792, 000 



28 

 46 

 35 

 10 

 45 



72 

 54 

 65 

 84 

 55 



52 

 43 

 55 



GO 

 36 







Kentucky - 

































146, 031, 000 



51, 002, 000 



35 



65 



48 















35, 504, 000 

 45, 3<»8, 000 

 49, 6<)0, 000 

 42, 998, 000 

 52, 288, 000 

 24,900,000 



25, 429, 000 



4, 658, 000 



6, 959, 000 



15,247,000 



22, 303, 000 



564, 000 



71 

 30 

 14 

 34 



42 



2 



29 

 90 

 80 

 65 

 58 

 98 



13 

 1 



2 

 3 



7 







































i 









250, 754, 000 



75,100,000 



30 



70 



1 4 















396, 785, 000 



120, 162, 000 



32 



68 



20 















93,998,000 

 62, 448, 000 

 66, 332, 000 



78, 374, 000 



915,000 



476, 000 



1, 823, 000 



263, 000 



1 



0-7 

 2-7 

 0-3 



99 

 99 

 97 

 99 



18 



12 



16 



6 



20 

 16 

 21 

 21 



Gl 



W\ om iiig 



71 



Colorado .................... 



CO 



New Mexico - 



72 







Eastern Rocky Mountain region 



30'), 154, 000 



3, 477, 000 



1 



99 



13 



20 



66 



Idaho 



53, 945, 000 

 70, 233, 000 

 52,601,000 

 72, 268, 000 



606, 000 

 723, 000 

 548, 000 

 104, 000 



1 

 1 

 1 

 0-1 



99 

 99 

 99 

 99-9 



20 



40 

 9 



27 

 12 



39 



No\ ada 



90 



Utah 



16 

 14 



56 





74 









249, 047, 000 



1, 9S1, 000 



0-7 



99 3 



8 



22 



69 







ItOCKY MOUNIAIN KEG ION 



549,201,000 



5, 458, 000 



1 



99 



30 



21 



6 







California 



99, 827, 000 

 60,518,0(0 

 42, 703, 000 



12, 222, 000 

 3, 516, 000 

 1, 820, 000 



17, 558, 000 



32 

 6 



4 



88 

 94 

 96 



38 

 34 

 55 



i 30 



27 

 28 

 21 



43 





32 



Washington , 



20 







Pacific coast 



203, 048, 000 



8 



92 



27 



35 







Hotc. — The authority for the area of improved farm land is furnished by the census of 1890. The areas of forest, brush, and waste 

 lands were ascertained by subtracting the area of cultivated land from the total land areas of the several States, and are placed as per cent 

 of the total areas in column 4. The part of these supposed to be forest is estimated on information obtained by various agencies. For the 

 western section of the country the further subdivision into forest, brush, and open country is based partly on statistics gathered by Colonel 

 Ensign and published in Bulletin 2 of the Division of Forestry, and partly on the map republished from the report of the Division for 1892. 



These figures would indicate that, in round numbers, less than 350,000,000 acres are turned 

 into farm lands, more than two-thirds of which was hewn out of the forest; that the productive 

 area of forest growth, by no means all virgin, falls somewhat below 500,000,000 acres; that nearly 

 450,000,000 acres are open country, which is presumably incapable of producing any valuable 

 forest growth on account of climatic deficiencies, leaving a balance of over 600,000,000 acres as 

 waste and brush land, of which at least three-fourths have been made so by the combined efforts 

 of ax and fire. 



