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According to the National Association of State Foresters the five states with the most total forested area.
Alaska - They actually don't have the stat for 2006 for some reason, but I'm going on other sources here.
California
Oregon
Idaho
Georgia - I think this state might be the smallest in area of these five.
Alabama, Montana, Colorado, and Washington are also listed as having a fair amount.
Compared to land area Maine, New Hampshire, and West Virginia seem the most forested.
2006 State Forestry Statistics | National Association of State Foresters (http://www.stateforesters.org/node/896 - broken link)
Last edited by Thomas R.; 07-25-2010 at 05:44 PM..
California I read somewhere has more protected wilderness than AK. Idk how true it is, but check this site out. A huge majority of CA is protected forest. That doesn't include state parks and such either.
Forest cover by state in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1. Maine 85.8%
2. New Hampshire 78.4%
3. West Virginia: 77.2%
4. Vermont: 75.7%
5. Alabama: 70.6%
6. Georgia: 64.2%
7. South Carolina: 63.8%
8. Mississippi: 61.9%
9. Virginia: 60.7%
10. North Carolina: 59.9%
11. Pennsylvania: 55.3%
12. Arkansas: 55.1%
13. Connecticut: 54.7%
14. Tennessee: 52.9%
15. Massachusetts: 52.5%
16. Michigan: 51.2%
17. New York: 50.9%
18. Rhode Island: 50.8%
19. Louisiana: 49.2%
20. Kentucky: 48.6%
21. Wisconsin: 45.2%
22. Florida: 42.4%
23. Washington: 40.7%
24. New Jersey: 39.5%
25. Oregon: 38.8%
good list. thank you. unfortunately I need to spread rep around.
I think people tend to forget that many large western states have diversity of terrain that includes a lot of wilderness that isn't forest.
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