Facts:

• According to the USDA Forest Service Inventory, West Virginia has over 7 million more acres of forested land that it did in 1910.
• West Virginia's forests had 18 billion board feet of saw timber in 1949.  In 1995, saw timber volume had increased to 76 billion board feet - that's over four times as much.
• The cycle of sustainable forestry depends on a full array of forest stand ages - not all young and not all old.  West Virginia's forests are approaching that desirable balance that assures that for every three harvest or lost to fire, old age or other natural causes, another tree just a little younger is ready to take its place.
• West Virginia ranks third in the nation, behind only Maine and New Hampshire, in the percentage of forested land.
• West Virginia has 11.9 million acres of forestland.
• West Virginia's forests are at least 94% hardwood species (i.e., maple, oak, yellow-poplar, walnut).