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Map of wood-filled areas in the United States, c. 2000 [1] In the United States , the forest cover by state and territory is estimated from tree-attributes using the basic statistics reported by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service . [ 2 ]
Map of national forests and national grasslands of the United States. The United States has 154 protected areas known as national forests, covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km 2; 294,275 sq mi). [1] National forests are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [2]
E.O. Siecke State Forest: Newton County: I.D. Fairchild State Forest: Cherokee County: John Henry Kirby Memorial State Forest: Tyler County: Masterson State Forest: Jasper County: W. Goodrich Jones State Forest: Montgomery County: Ruth Bowling Nichols Arboretum: Cherokee County: Olive Scott Petty Arboretum: Hardin County
Native Americans cleared millions of acres of forest for many reasons, including hunting, farming, berry production, and building materials. [7] Prior to the arrival of European-Americans, about one half of the United States land area was forest, about 1,023,000,000 acres (4,140,000 km 2) estimated in 1630.
Ecoregions of North America, featuring the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and the five inhabited territories. The following is a list of United States ecoregions as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The United States is a megadiverse country with a high level of endemism across a wide variety of ecosystems.
There are more than 3,400 Tree Cities USA. The following is a partial listing of Tree Cities USA. [1] To be a Tree City, the community must meet four standards set by the National Arbor Day Foundation and the National Association of State Foresters: The community must have a tree board or department.
The White House recently announced that the U.S. Forest Service awarded $1 billion in grants nationwide, including two for cities in Central Texas. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail ...
The Piney Woods is a temperate coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 square miles (141,000 km 2) of East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma.