Table Z.—Form of private ownership by number of owners and acres of privately-owned com- 

 mercial forest land with number of owners who have harvested timber and the acres they 

 own, Maryland, 1976 



Owners who have 



All owners harvested timber 



Ownership 





Thousand 





Thousand 



Number 



acres owned 



Number 



acres owned 



Forest industry^ 



100 



139.2 



100 



139.2 



Farmer^ 



31,500 



1,028.2 



11,200 



580.0 



Miscellaneous: 











Individual 



53,900 



734.6 



8,500 



322.8 



Corporate 



5,500 



248.9 



400 



112.0 



Other 



4,800 



129.1 



900 



56.9 



Total private 



95,800 



2,280.0 



21,100 



1,210.9 



a Includes unincorporated forest industry, 

 b Includes part-time farmers. 



Table A.— Area of commercial forest land in Maryland, by stand-size classes and geographic 



units, 1976 

 (In thousands of acres) 



Geographic 



Sawtimber 



Poletimber 



Other 



All 



unit 



stands 



stands 



stands 



classes 



Central 



717.4 



236.2 



151.9 



1,105.5 



Southern 



227.8 



85.1 



63.2 



376.1 



Lower Eastern Shore 



273.0 



172.1 



77.9 



523.0 



Western 



194.9 



172.1 



151.1 



518.1 



Total, all units 



1,413.1 



665.5 



444.1 



2,522.7 



Sampling error 











(in percent) 



4 



7 



11 



2 



Table 5.— Area of commercial forest land in Maryland, by forest type groups and 



geographic units, 1976 



Lower 



Forest type Central Southern Eastern Western Total Sampling 



group Shore error 



fhousahd acres Percent 



White and red pine 12.0 — — 31.4 43.4 37 



Spruce-fir — — — \\.2 11.2 a 



Loblolly and shortleaf pine 142.0 94.9 253.5 31.6 522.0 7 



Oak-pine 47.3 52.8 44.0 19.0 163.1 15 



Oak-hickory 680.1 172.8 68.8 240.0 1,161.7 5 



Oak-gum-cypress 23.7 21.2 53.8 — 98.7 19 



Elm-ash-red maple 116.3 26.4 96.8 83.2 322.7 12 



Maple-beech-birch 84.1 8^0 6A 101.7 199.9 19 



Total, all type groups 1,105.5 3761 523^0 STSl 2,522.7 2 



3 Sampling error of 50 to 99 percent. 



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