Experience Michigan!

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Experience Michigan!
Kirtland's warbler Photo by Ron Austing Taken in
Huron-Manistee National Forest
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Live Tree Biomass by County 2002 RPA
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Live Tree Biomass on Forest Land by Aboveground
Component, 2004
Total 793.7 million dry short tons (41.1 dry
short tons/acre) or 720 metric tons (92.1 metric
tons/ha)
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Historical Background

• Lumber boom and fires of late 1800s and
• early 1900s secondary succession followed
• Forest land has varied since first FIA inventory
  in 1935 but 19.7 million acres (8 million
  hectares) in 2007 matches high estimate of 1955
• Volume has risen steadily but net growth to
  volume has slowed since 1935 inventory
• Mortality has been consistently low since 1935
  inventory
• TPO production almost doubled from 1970s
• through 1980s. 1990s through 2004 production
• has been fairly steady

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Timberland and Forest Land by Year
(8,094 thousand ha)
(6,678 thousand ha)
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Forest-land Reversion by Previous Land Use, 1993
- 2004
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Forest-land Diversion by Current Land Use, 1993
- 2004
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Distribution of Forest Types, 2004
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Growing-stock Volume on Timberland
(0.71 billion m3)
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Growing-stock Net Growth, Removals and Mortality
on Timberland
(25.5 million m3)
(14.2 million m3)
Harvest Removals
2007 Removals Adjusted
Harvest TPO
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Production of Industrial Roundwood
(12.7 million m3)
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Growing-stock Net Growth to Volume on Timberland
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Forest Land by Owner Class, 2007
2,839 thousand acres
2,914 thousand acres
9,435 thousand acres
4,170 thousand acres
353 thousand acres
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Private and Public Forest Land
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Change in Forest Land by Owner Class
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1993 to 2004 Corporate Forest Land Ownership
Change
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1993 to 2004 Noncorporate Private Forest Land
Ownership Change
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Family Forest Land by Primary Occupation in
Michigan, 2006
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Family Forest Land by Age of Owner in Michigan,
2006
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Future Plans for Family Forest Land Owners in
Michigan, 2006
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Forest Land by Stocking and Owner Class, 2004
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Forest Land by Stocking Class and Inventory
Unit, 2004
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Current Volume, Average Annual Net Growth,
Mortality and Removals by Owner
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