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    Environmental Statistics


    Section 7.  Terrestrial Resources


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    Table 7.1  Land Use and Ownership in the United States, 1900-1997 7.1 7.1
    Table 7.2  Special and Other Land Uses in the United States, 1945-1992 7.2 7.2
    Table 7.3  Number of Farms and Land in Farms in the United States, 1900-1997, and Average Farm Size, 1950-1999 7.3 7.3
    Table 7.4  Major Uses of U.S. Cropland, Agricultural Census Years, 1945-1997 7.4 7.4
    Table 7.5  Cropland Tillage Practices Used in the Production of U.S. Field Crops, 1989--2000 7.5 7.5
    Table 7.6  Erosion on Nonfederal Agricultural Land, 1982-1997 7.6 7.6
    Table 7.7  U.S. Agricultural Productivity Indexes, 1948-1996 7.7 7.7
    Table 7.8  U.S. Commercial Fertilizer Use, 1960-1999 7.8 7.8
    Table 7.9  Farm Pesticide Use on Major U.S. Crops, Agricultural Census Years, 1964-1982, and Annually, 1990-1997
    7.9
    7.9
    Table 7.10  U.S. Commercial Pesticide Use by Sector and Type, 1979-1997
    7.10
    7.10
    Table 7.11  Irrigated U.S. Farmland, 1890-1997
    7.11
    7.11
    Table 7.12  Condition of U.S. Nonfederal Rangeland, Selected Years, 1963-1992, and Bureau of Land Management Rangeland, Selected Years, 1936-1999
    7.12
    7.12
    Table 7.13  Timberland in the United States by Ownership, 1953-1997
    7.13
    7.13
    Table 7.14  Annual Net Growth and Removals of U.S. Growing Stock, 1952-1996, and Volume of U.S. Growing Stock, 1953-1997
    7.14
    7.14
    Table 7.15  U.S. Production of Timber Products by Major Product, 1965-1997
    7.15
    7.15
    Table 7.16  Logging Residues from U.S. Growing Stock and Timber Product Output from U.S. Nongrowing Stock, 1952-1991
    7.16
    7.16
    Table 7.17  U.S. Wildland Fire Damage and Tree Planting, Ten-Year Intervals, 1930-1950, and Annually, 1951-2000
    7.17
    7.17
    Table 7.18  U.S. Forestland Damaged by Insects, 1968-1998
    7.18
    7.18

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