West Virginia Forests 2013

Author

Publication Toolbox

• Download PDF (17.0 MB)
• Download EPUB (19.9 MB)
• Order a printed copy of this publication
• West Virginia Forests 2013 Statistics, Methods and Quality Assurance (378 KB)
• Zip file containing additional resources for West Virginia Forests 2013 (111.7 MB)
• Summary tables for West Virginia Forests 2013 Statistics, Methods, and Quality Assurance (677 KB)

West Virginia Forests 2013

• Morin, Randall S.
• Cook, Gregory W.
• Barnett, Charles J.
• Butler, Brett J.
• Crocker, Susan J.
• Hatfield, Mark A.
• Kurtz, Cassandra M.
• Lister, Tonya W.
• Luppold, William G.
• McWilliams, William H.
• Miles, Patrick D.
• Nelson, Mark D.
• Perry, Charles H. (Hobie)
• Piva, Ronald J.
• Smith, James E.
• Westfall, Jim
• Widmann, Richard H.
• Woodall, Christopher W.

Year Published

2016

Publication

Resour. Bull. NRS-105. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 128 p.

Abstract

The annual inventory of West Virginia's forests, completed in 2013, covers nearly 12.2 million acres of forest land with an average volume of more than 2,300 cubic feet per acre. This report is based data collected from 2,808 plots located across the State. Forest land is dominated by the oak/hickory forest-type group, which occupies 74 percent of total forest land area. Seventy-eight percent of forest land area consists of a plurality of large diameter trees, 15 percent contains medium diameter trees, and 7 percent contains small diameter trees. The volume of growing stock on timberland has been rising since the 1950s and currently totals over 25 billion cubic feet. The average annual net growth of growing-stock trees on timberland from 2008 to 2013 is approximately 519 million cubic feet per year. Important species compositional changes include increases in sapling numbers of yellow-poplar, American beech, and noncommercial species, which coincide with decreases in numbers of trees and saplings of oak species. Additional information is presented on forest attributes, land use change, carbon, timber products, species composition, regeneration, and forest health. Detailed information on forest inventory methods, data quality estimates, and summary tables of population estimates, are available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/NRS-RB-105.

Keywords

• forest resources
• forest health
• forest products
• volume
• biomass
• carbon
• habitat

Citation

Morin, Randall S.; Cook, Gregory W.; Barnett, Charles J.; Butler, Brett J.; Crocker, Susan J.; Hatfield, Mark A.; Kurtz, Cassandra M.; Lister, Tonya W.; Luppold, William G.; McWilliams, William H.; Miles, Patrick D.; Nelson, Mark D.; Perry, Charles H.; Piva, Ronald J.; Smith, James E.; Westfall, James A.; Widmann, Richard H.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2016. West Virginia Forests 2013. Resour. Bull. NRS-105. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 128 p.

Last updated on: August 30, 2016

For further details log on website :
https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/52444