A New Technique for Estimating Forest-Land Areas by Ownership Class
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Ownership of forest land has been the subject of continuing research in the United States
since about 1940, because knowledge of who owns this land, why it is owned, and what
is being done with it is essential to development of appropriate forest-land management
policies and programs. The accompanying list of selected references furnishes evidence
of previous work in forest-land ownership research. Despite interest in this field, however,
procedures used in these studies have shown surprisingly little variation. The
study reported here, which is directly concerned with ownership of private forest land
in Lane County, Oreg., represents a different approach. Specifically, it develops a new
method for classifying private owners in the county and in other areas where similar
basic data are available. This method may also have application in other regions.