A classification of land use in the Natural Resources Inventory (NRI). It includes areas where trees cover at least 10% of the land and must be at least an acre in size. Forestland was found on 395 million acres, almost 30% of all private lands, in the 1992 NRI.
Forestry Operations & Water Quality] All land which is capable of supporting a merchantable stand of timber and is not being actively used for a use which is incompatible with timber growing.
Land on which the vegetation is dominated by forest or, if trees are lacking, the land bears evidence of former forest and has not been converted to other vegetation.
Land which is currently producing (or, in some cases, capable of producing) a forest.
Land that can support at least 10 percent native tree cover under natural conditions. Forestland may include areas of grassland, shrubland, wetland, or other land classes. Forest carbon: The carbon stored in a forest, including living and dead tissues: tree trunks, branches and foliage as well as soils, litter, understory plants and woody debris.
Forestland means any woodland, brushland, timberland, grazing land or clearing that, during any time of the year, contains enough forest growth, slashing or vegetation to constitute, in the judgment of the state forester, a fire hazard, regardless of how the land is zoned or taxed.
All land that is capable of supporting a merchantable stand of timber and whose current use is not incompatible with timber growing.