Forestland Facts

• Pennsylvania's public and private forestlands support a $5 billion forest products industry.
• In Pennsylvania, private forest landowners own approximately 12 million acres of the forested land.
• More than 90,000 families or individuals own 5 acres or more of forested land.
• Collectively, all these landowners manage more than 70 percent of the forest resource that makes up Pennsylvania.
• Currently, 1 billion board feet of timber are harvested annually.
• The timber industry is one of the state's largest industries, with every dollar in timber sales yielding an estimated $17 worth of economic growth.

Today's photo was taken at Laurel Hill State Park, which consists of 3,935 acres of mountainous terrain in Somerset County.

Reference: Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR)

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