Excerpt from Forest Health Monitoring, New England, 1990 The six-state New England region is estimated to be over 80 percent forested. With a total land area of more than 40 million acres, forestland comprises over 32 million acres. The predominance of forestland occurs throughout New England, with Maine most extensively forested (89 percent) and forestland in southern New England exceeding 60 percent of total land area. Over 85 percent of New England forests are classified as one of four major forest-type groups: White Pine, spruce-fir, oak-hickory, and Northern Hardwoods. Across New England, 76 tree species have been recorded on forest survey plots. The most common conifers are balsam fir and red spruce and the most common hardwood species is red maple. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.