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AR
Potential for Forest Stewardship
Program Benefits
Louisiana
Stewardship
Potential
MS
TX
Acres
High
6,062,912
18,298,141
Low
7,170
244,403
Medium
Total
Stewardship Capable Lands
Forest
5,257,091
6,887,939
23,562,402
13,195,254
Percent of Total
Forest
45.9%
77.7%
22.3%
52.2%
0.0%
1.9%
Non-Forest
Acres
16,824
2,750,859
39,600,783
1,607,196
93,130,522
9,518,683
135,482,319
11,142,703
Percent of Total
Non-Forest
Total
Acres
0.2%
2.0%
6,079,736
21,049,000
68.7%
85.4%
93,137,692
9,763,086
29.2%
14.4%
Percent
of Total
25.0%
13.2%
44,857,874
8,495,136
28.2%
34.9%
58.6%
40.1%
159,044,565
24,337,957
Note: Stewardship potential classes were determined by Natural Breaks using data only for Louisiana.
AL
Stewardship Potential
AZ
Low
Medium
High
Areas without
Stewardship Potential
0 10 20
F OF MEX
G UL
ICO
This analysis was produced as part of the Southern Forest Land
Assessment, a cooperative project of the Southern Group of State
Foresters to spatially identify important forest lands in the 13
southern states and Puerto Rico. It was funded by a Forest
Stewardship Program grant from the USDA Forest Service.
LAYER WEIGHT SCHEME
14.9 % Forestland
11.7 % Site Productivity
11.4 % Forest Health
9.0 % Riparian areas
8.8 % Development level
(weighted means across ecoregions)
5.3 % Threatened & Endangered Species
8.2 % Forested Wetlands
3.5 % Proximity to Public Land
7.5 % Forest Patches
1.0 % Slope
6.5 % Wildfire Risk
6.3 % Public Drinking Water
5.8 % Priority Watersheds
MAP NOTES
Date: November 2009
Data layer: p_uwp_3c_s
File name: SAP_LA1.mxd
Map by: Gus Rowland
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Miles
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Gus Rowland
Louisiana Office of Forestry
225-952-8023
growland@ldaf.la.gov