Table 4-5 TOC
Major Land Use, in Idaho, the Region, and the U.S., 1987 (in 1,000 Acres)
  Cropland[1] Forest Use[2] Pasture[3] Special Use[4] Other[5] Total[6]
Idaho 6,963 17,767 19,943 5,278 2,793 52,744
Alaska 77 88,643 1,209 142,520 132,884 365,333
Montana 18,264 18,709 47,139 6,145 2,791 93,048
Nevada 852 7,383 45,735 7,517 8,845 70,332
Oregon 5,384 26,278 22,913 3,568 3,415 61,558
Utah 2,104 14,793 23,080 5,451 7,099 52,527
Washington 8,365 17,857 7,235 6,637 2,473 42,567
Wyoming 2,948 5,552 45,146 6,293 2,134 62,073
U.S. 464,001 648,164 591,083 278,599 283,300 2,265,147
Source: A. B. Daugherty, Major Uses of Land in the United States: 1987 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Resources & Technology Division, 1991) Agricultural Economic Report no. 643.
[1] Total acreage in crop rotation.
[2] Excludes an estimated 83 million acres of forestland in parks and other special uses of land.
[3] Grassland pasture and range_grassland and other nonforested pasture and range in farms, excluding cropland used only for pasture, plus estimates of open or nonforested grazing land not in farms.
[4] Transportation, recreation, and other special uses of land specified in Table 3.13.
[5] Miscellaneous areas, such as marshes, open swamps, bare rock areas, deserts, urban, and other special uses not inventoried.
[6] Approximate land area as established by the U.S. Bureau of the Census in the 1980 Census of Population. Includes all dryland and land temporarily or partially covered with water, such as marshland, swamps, river floodplains (streams, sloughs, estuaries, and canals less than one-eighth mile wide) or lakes, reservoirs, and ponds less than 40 acres in area.

Originally compiled by: Diane Prorak
Data input assisted by: Robert Anton-Erik
Contact: Lily Wai