Table 2.— Area of commercial forest land In West Virginia, by owner- 

 ship classes and geographic units, 7975 



[In thousands of acres] 



Ownership 

 classes 



Northeastern 



Southern 



Northwestern 



Total 



National Forest 



733.8 



138.8 







872.6 



Other Federal 



14.0 



3.1 



22.0 



39.1 



State 



88.1 



78.7 



62.1 



228.9 



County and municipal 



.2 



— 



- 



.2 



Total public 



836.1 



220.6 



84.1 



1,140.8 



Forest industry 



234.5 



491.5 



153.7 



879.7 



Farmer-owned 



876.0 



391.5 



660.1 



1,927.6 



Miscellaneous private: 











Individual 



1,634.4 



1,289.6 



1,863.8 



4,787.8 



Corporate 



402.8 



1,254.1 



95.4 



1,752.3 



Other 



421.4 



265.9 



308.2 



995.5 



Total private 



3,569.1 



3,692.6 



3,081.2 



10,342.9 



All ownerships 



4,405.2 



3,913.2 



3,165.3 



11,483.7 



Table 3.— Form of ownership by number of owners and acres 

 of privately-owned forest land with number of owners 

 who have harvested timber and the acres they own. 

 West, Virginia, 1975 





All owners 



Owners who have harvested timber 



Form of 

 ownership 



Number 



Thousand 

 acres owned 



Number 



Thousand 

 acres owned 



Individual 

 Partnership 

 Corporation 

 Other a 



182,100 

 4,300 

 3,000 

 18,100 



6,517.5 

 290.3 



2,591.0 

 944.1 



55,900 

 800 

 500 

 6,400 



3,149.6 

 187.2 



2,417.8 

 564.9 



Total 



207,500 



10,342.9 



63,600 



6,319.5 



a Includes associations, clubs, and undivided estates. 



Table 4.— Area of commercial forest land, by forest types and stand- 

 size classes, West Virginia, 1975 



[In thousands of acres] 



Forest type 



All 

 stands 



Saw- 

 timber 

 stands 



Pole- 

 timber 

 stands 



Sapling- 

 seedling 

 stands 



Non- 

 stocked 

 areas 



White pine 



101.2 



36.8 



54.1 



10.3 





Spruce-fir 



59.0 



43.6 



14.0 



1.1 



0.3 



Virginia and pitch pine 



485.2 



163.7 



173.9 



147.6 





Oak-pine 



568.2 



221.6 



172.7 



164.3 



9.6 



Oak-nickorya 



6,828.1 



2,794.4 



2,455.5 



1,465.7 



112.5 



Elm-ash-red maple 



814.5 



258.4 



282.1 



274.0 





Maple-beech-birch 



2,618.6 



1,557.2 



807.3 



243.1 



11.0 



Aspen-birch 



8.9 









8.9 



All types 11,483.7 5.075.7 3,959.6 2.306.1 142.3 



a Includes the yellow-poplar forest type. 



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