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National forests listed in this column in small text are constituent national forests managed by, but not included in the name of, the named national forest in normal text. To reach the figure of 154 national forests, count hyphenated names as two forests, with the exception of Manti–La Sal, which is the official name of one forest.
It has been estimated that before European settlement, forests in the United States mainland covered nearly 1 billion acres (4,000,000 km 2). [1] Since the mid-1600s, about 300 million acres (1,200,000 km 2 ) of forest have been cleared, primarily for agriculture during the 19th century.
There are 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands containing 193 million acres (297,000 mi 2 /769 000 km 2) of land. [10] These lands comprise 8.5 percent of the total land area of the United States, an area about the size of Texas. [1] About 87 percent of national forest land lies in the Western United States, mostly in mountain ranges.
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Temperate coniferous forests of the United States (1 C, 30 P) Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests of the United States (10 P) Pages in category "Forests of the United States"
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Thirty-eight of the U.S.'s 50 states have state forests, as does one territory, Puerto Rico. The remaining twelve states do not have state forests. This is a list of links to state forests in the United States. See also Category:State forests in the United States.
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