Forest Resource Summary NEW YORK Forest

percent privately owned. The 21 percent of the land that is owned by the State mostly encompasses the Adirondack Park. These forest lands provide a recreational base for millions of residents and others visiting the State’s scenic regions. Since 2007, inventories have shown the amount of forested land in New York to be stable and forest land lost to development has been balanced by gains in abandoned farm land reverting to forest. The latest New York forest inventory estimated that 63 percent of the State is forested— almost 19 million acres—and 23 percent is in agriculture. The forest resource is made up of a variety of forest types—mostly maple and other hardwoods, along with pine, oak, beech, eastern hemlock, and other softwoods. highlights201