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

Abstract

Summary estimates are presented of forest resource area, timber volume, and growth and mortality of timber on unreserved national forest land in the Stikine 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 1,158 thousand acres, cubic-foot volume on timberland at 6,222 million cubic feet, and net annual growth and mortality at 11,003 and 50,426 thousand cubic feet, respectively.

Citation

van Hees, Willem W.S. 2001. Summary estimates of forest resources on unreserved lands of the Stikine inventory unit, Tongass National Forest, southeast Alaska, 1998. Res. Bull. PNW-RB-232. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 8 p