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Map of national forests and national grasslands of the United States. The United States has 154 protected areas known as national forests, covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km 2; 294,275 sq mi). [1] National forests are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [2]
Interactive map of Salmon–Challis National Forest Salmon–Challis National Forest is located in east central sections of the U.S. state of Idaho . At 4,235,940 acres (6,618.66 sq mi, or 17,142.24 km 2 ) it is one of the largest national forests in the lower 48 states and also has most of the land area of the Frank Church–River of No Return ...
There are 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands containing 193 million acres (297,000 mi 2 /769 000 km 2) of land. [10] These lands comprise 8.5 percent of the total land area of the United States, an area about the size of Texas. [1] About 87 percent of national forest land lies in the Western United States, mostly in mountain ranges.
The state with the most national parks is California with nine, followed by Alaska with eight, Utah with five, and Colorado with four. The largest national park is Wrangell–St. Elias in Alaska: at over 8 million acres (32,375 km 2), it is larger than each of the nine smallest states.
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 million acres (780,000 km 2) of land. [5] The major divisions of the agency are the Chief's Office, National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, Business ...
Bitterroot National Forest, Boise National Forest, Salmon–Challis National Forest, Nez Perce National Forest, Payette National Forest, Idaho BLM Coeur d'Alene District USFS, BLM ID 2,366,907 3,698.292 957,853 9,578.53 July 23, 1980: Funeral Mountains: California BLM California Desert District BLM CA 25,707 40.167 10,403 104.03 October 31, 1994
There are boreal forests in Alaska. [4] Forests in Hawaii and the U.S. territories are tropical. [5] The most heavily forested regions of the U.S. are Maine, New Hampshire, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and West Virginia; the least heavily forested regions are North Dakota, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
In the United States, the forest cover by state and territory is estimated from tree-attributes using the basic statistics reported by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service. [2] Tree volumes and weights are not directly measured in the field, but computed from other variables that can be measured. [3][4]