Summary Estimates of Forest Resources on Unreserved Lands of the ChathamInventory Unit, Tongass National Forest, Southeast Alaska, 1998

摘要

Summary estimates are presented of forest resource area, timber volume, andgrowth and mortality of timber on unreserved national forest land in the Chatham inventory unit of the Tongass National Forest. Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis crews collected inventory data from 1995 to 2000. Productive forest land area (timberland) was estimated at 1,302 thousand acres, cubic-foot volume on timberland at 7,561 million cubic feet, and net annual growth and mortality at 31,613 and 28,341 thousand cubic feet, respectively.