"America has 749
million acres of Forestland,
14 million acres more than in 1920"
US Department of Agriculture, 2004
Number of Forests:
1905: 83 forest
reserves
2005: 155 National
Forests and 20 National Grasslands
Number of Acres:
1905: 63 million
2005: 192 million
Budget:
1905: $400,000
2005: $4.1 billion
Number of
Employees:
1905: 270
2005: 37,648
U.S. Population:
1905: 76 million
2005: 290 million
WILDERNESS:WILDERNESS
ACRES CREATED
Nationally 109,494,508 acres
1963-69 12,610,666
1970-79 8,970,692
1980-89 71,461,044
1990-99 11,237,493
2000-07 3,156,713
2009 2,057,900
Source: Wilderness.net, a Web site run jointly by the U.S.
government and the University of Montana.
BLM Facts:
2006: 258,000,000
acres
2006: 7,600,000 acres
of Wilderness in 177 parcels