The Forests of Southern New England, 2007 a Report on the Forest Resources of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
The Forests of Southern New England, 2007 A Report on the Forest Resources of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island Resource Bulletin NRS-55 United States Forest Northern Department of Agriculture Service Research Station Abstract This report summarizes the results of the fi fth forest inventory of the forests of Southern New England, defi ned as Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis program. Previous inventories were conducted in 1998, 1985, 1972, and 1953. Information in this report includes forest attributes, ownership, land-use change, carbon, timber products, forest health, and statistics and quality assurance of data collection. There are 5.1 million acres of forest land across the region: 3.0 million acres of forest land is in Massachusetts, 1.7 million acres in Connecticut, and 0.4 million acres in Rhode Island. This amount has decreased by 5 percent since the last inventory was completed in 1998. There are 2.6 billion trees on this forest land that have a total volume of 12.6 billion cubic feet. Red maple and eastern white pine are the most common species in terms of both numbers of trees and volume. Fifty percent of the forest land is classifi ed as the oak- hickory forest type. Acknowledgments There are a great many people who made this report possible. We would like to thank the following individuals for their hard work and dedication: Carol Alerich, Todd Bixby, Aarron Clark, Ted Goodnight, Mark Hansen, John Higham, Bob Ilgenfritz, Erika Mattson, Jason Morrison, Dennis May, Will McWilliams, Dacia Meneguzzo, Anne Quinion, Joyce Quinn, Brian Rudd, Bryan Tirrell, Jim Westfall, John Vissage, and Ashley Zickefoose.
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