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Notes: Another way to look at change in forest inventories is to examine forest growth and removals. For softwoods, net growth (growth minus mortality) exceeded timber removals in the years 1952, 1962, and 1977. Since then, growth has essentially just offset the removals from growing stocks of timber.
Data Source: See the previous slide for a discussion of how these data were compiled for benchmark years. Note that forest removals includes both timber harvesting and the removal of forests from forest uses--i.e., land use conversions.
