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Breeding birds of Pennsylvania: forest communities

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Abstract

Pennsylvania is a forested state--the very name means "Penn's woods". Despite being the sixth most populous state in the country, forests are the dominant land-cover type in in Pennsylvania. Today approximately 60% of the commonwealth is forested, and Pennsylvania leads the nation in hardwood growing stock volume (Widmann 1995).

Citation

Stoleson, Scott H.; Larkin, Jeffery. L. 2010. Breeding birds of Pennsylvania: forest communities.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/34649