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Case Study: Northwestern Washington

Recent Trends Projected Increases in Housing Density Policies, Planning, and Future Growth

Case Study: Southern Maine

Recent Trends Projected Increases in Housing Density Policies, Planning, and Future Growth

Case Study: Northwestern Georgia

Recent Trends Projected Increases in Housing Density Policies, Planning, and Future Growth

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Private Assets, Public Benefits AK, HI, PR, VI, and Pacific Islands Urban Forests on the Edge

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USDA Forest Service, Cooperative Forestry, Mail Stop Code 1123, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-1123

email: openspace@fs.fed.us
facsimile: (202) 205-1271 Open Space Conservation Claire Harper & Kathryn Conant

USDA Forest Service, Cooperative Forestry, Mail Stop Code 1123, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-1123

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Recent Trends

The number of housing units increases at a faster rate than population growth. Although Maine had one of the smallest population increases in the Nation between 1990 and 2000 (4 percent), the number of housing units in the state expanded more rapidly than the population growth (11 percent).

Transitions in forest land ownership. In recent years, the forest industry in Maine has been divesting its forest land holdings.

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