SUMMARY TERRA-1 TERRA-2 TERRA-3 TERRA-4 TERRA-5 SOCIO-1 SOCIO-2 SOCIO-3 SOCIO-4 SOCIO-5 SOCIO-6 SOCIO-7 TIMBR-1 TIMBR-2 TIMBR-3 HLTH-1 HLTH-2 HLTH-3 AQUA-1 AQUA-2 AQUA-3 AQUA-4 AQUA-5 HISTORY FIRE UPDATE-1 PDF (13.6 MB)

SOCIO-1: Land Use

1 Key Findings

2 Introduction

3 Methods

3.1 Historical Land Use

3.2 Land Use Forecasts

3.3 Forest Conditions

4 Data Sources

4.1 Historical Land Use

4.2 Forest Area Conditions

5 Results

5.1 Historical Land Use

5.2 Land Use Forecasts

5.3 Forest Conditions

6 Discussion and Conclusions

7 Needs for Additional Research

8 Acknowledgments

9 Literature Cited

10 Tables and Figures

Table 1--Allocation of southern land among major uses, 1945-1992

Table 2-Change in the percent of area in forest and amount of forest area by ecological section

Table 3--Change in the percent of area in forest and amount of forest area by ecological section

Figure 1--Land use shares by type for Southern States, 1945 to 1992

Figure 2--Percent of (a) forest, (b) urban, and (c) agricultural land uses by county

Figure 3--Percent of nonfederal land in developed uses

Figure 4--Changes in percent of (a) forest, (b) urban, and (c) agricultural land uses

Figure 5--Summary of changes in percent forest area by ecological section

Figure 6--Agricultural rents 1960-1994 for five States

Figure 7--Real prices paid for softwood pulpwood and sawtimber in Louisiana, 1950-1996

Figure 8--Population for the United States and for the thirteen States in the Assessment area

Figure 9--Percent changes in the density of population for a) 1950-1999, b) 1950-1960, and c) 1990-1999

Figure 10--Areas of land in (a) forest, (b) urban, (c) agricultural and (d) other land uses in 1992 and for four forecast scenarios

Figure 11--Base scenario forecasts of changes in percentages of land in (a) forest, (b) urban, and (c) agricultural land uses

Figure 12--Forecast changes in percent of forest by ecological section for 1992-2020 under the Base Scenario

Figure 13--Forecast changes in percent under the Timber Price Scenario of (a) forest, (b) urban, and (c) agricultural land uses

Figure 14--Forecast changes in percent of forest by ecological section for 1992-2020 under the Timber Price Scenario

Figure 15--Forest Population Density Index (FPD) in (a) people per square mile (ppsm) of forest

Figure 16--Numbers of counties in forest population density (FPD) classes, 1992 and 2020

Figure 17--Shares of areas in southern counties in 1992 in: (a) forest, (b) agriculture, and (c) urban

Figure 18--Shares of areas in counties classified as interior forest at (a) a fine scale, and (b) a broad scale

Figure 19--Shares of areas in southern counties classified as edge-dominated forest at (a) a fine scale and (b) a broad scale