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Forest Facts

Some 1.5 billion trees are planted in the U.S. every year, about 5 trees for every American.

Annually, U.S. forestland owners plant about 6 trees for every tree harvested.

About one-third of America's original forest - some 300 million acres - have been converted to other uses, principally agriculture.

There are 26 million more acres of forestland in the Northeast than there were in 1900.

Today, forests blanket about one-third of the U.S. land base and about half the U.S. East.

U.S. annual growth rates have exceeded harvest rates since the 1940's.

Timber harvesting is forbidden on 50% of all National Forest lands in the U.S.

National Forests account for 20% of the nation's forestlands and 19% of its timberlands.

National Forests hold 46% of the nation's softwood timber inventory but only provide 6% of the annual harvest.

Since 1986, the harvest of timber from America's national forests has declined 70%.

In the West, 34% of all forestland and 54% of all timberlands are in national forests.

National forests in the Pacific Coast and Intermountain West regions hold 68% of the nation's softwood timber inventory, but provide less than 28% of annual harvest.

Forest density has increased 40% in the U.S. over the last 50 years.

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Biography - Jim Doran

By: Jim Doran

Brief Biography of Jim Doran

Jim Doran is the principal of Community Forestry Resources, an independent contracting service designed to assist communities in rebuilding their forest resources and community economic health while restoring the natural ecosystems.

Jim is a native of the Northwest. He attended college at Gonzaga University and Seattle University and earned his juris doctorate at Gonzaga Law School in 1984.

Jim was the Mayor of Twisp, where he was raised, from 1996 to 2000. In 1998 Jim began work in Community Forestry with a focus on federal lands management issues. He has also been on the Board of Directors of many economic development organizations, conservation organizations and is associated with many community forestry organizations throughout the western states.

"We must always consider the environment and people together, as though they are one, because the
human need to use natural resources is fundamental to our continued presence on earth."

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