Wisconsin forests 2019: summary report

Abstract

This summary report provides results of the ninth forest inventory of the forests of Wisconsin conducted by the USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis program. There are an estimated 17 million acres of forest land across the State which is a small decrease from the 2014 estimate. There are 11.5 billion live trees at least 1 inch diameter at breast height (d.b.h.)/diameter at root collar (d.r.c.) on this forest land. Growing-stock volume on timberland totaled 22.4 billion cubic feet, led by sugar maple and red maple with 2.5 billion cubic feet and 2.3 billion cubic feet, respectively. By forest type, white oak/red oak/hickory is the most abundant at 4.1 billion cubic feet with the next most common forest type being sugar maple/beech/yellow birch at 3.5 billion cubic feet. The full, interactive report is available at https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-RB-127-INT.

Citation

Kurtz, Cassandra M.; Albright, Thomas A.; Anderson, Brian D.; Butler, Brett J.; Buntrock, Collin; Buckler, Daniel; Crocker, Susan J.; Nelson, Mark D.; Diss-Torrance, Andrea L.; Goff, Thomas C.; Hemmer, Bryan J.; Morin, Randall S.; Piva, Ronald J.; Pugh, Scott A.; Riemann, Rachel I.; Schanning, Sjana L.; Walters, Brian F.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2022. Wisconsin forests 2019: summary report. Resource Bulletin NRS-127. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 16 p. [plus interactive report]. http://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-RB-127.