Northern Great Plains forests 2020
| Authors: | Dacia M. Meneguzzo, Thomas A. Albright, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Thomas Goff, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Ronald J. Piva, Scott A. Pugh, Sjana Schanning, Brian F. Walters, Jim Westfall |
| Year: | 2026 |
| Type: | Resource Bulletin |
| Station: | Northern Research Station |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-RB-143 |
| Source: | Resour. Bull. NRS-143. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. |
Abstract
The 2020 inventory of the forests of the Northern Great Plains States (Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota) reports more than 6.6 million acres of forest land and more than 2.1 billion trees. Forest land is dominated by the ponderosa pine, sugarberry/hackberry/elm/green ash, and elm/ash/black locust forest types, which together occupy 43 percent of the total forest land area. The volume of growing stock on timberland currently totals 3.9 billion cubic feet. The average annual net growth of live trees from 2014 to 2020 was 162.5 million cubic feet per year. This report includes additional information on forest attributes, carbon, timber products, and forest health. The following supplemental information is available online at https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-RB-143: (1) tables summarizing quality assurance, (2) a core set of tabular estimates for forest resources, and (3) user and database guides for Phase 2 and Phase 2+ protocols.
Supplemental files:Download Northern Great Plains forests 2020: quality assurance tables (Excel file, 5.4 MB)Download Northern Great Plains forests 2020: estimate tables (Excel file, 924 KB)Download Northern Great Plains forests 2020: user and database guides (zip file, 16 MB)