Pacific Northwest Research Station

Title: Summary estimates of forest resources on unreserved lands of the Ketchikan inventory unit, Tongass National Forest, southeast Alaska, 1998.

Author: van Hees, Willem W.S.

Date: 2001

Source: Res. Bull. PNW-RB-233. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 8 p

Station ID: RB-PNW-233

Description: Summary estimates are presented of forest resource area, timber volume, and growth and mortality of timber on unreserved national forest land in the Ketchikan inventory unit of the Tongass National Forest. Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis crews collected inventory data from 1995 to 1998. Productive forest land area (timberland) was estimated at 1,405 thousand acres, cubic-foot volume on timberland at 7,294 million cubic feet, and net annual growth and mortality at 14,158 and 49,568 thousand cubic feet, respectively.

Keywords: Forest surveys, timber resources, statistics (forest), Alaska (southeast), Ketchikan

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van Hees, Willem W.S.  2001.  Summary estimates of forest resources on unreserved lands of the Ketchikan inventory unit, Tongass National Forest, southeast Alaska, 1998..   Res. Bull. PNW-RB-233. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 8 p