North America United States   Land area (CIA Fact book) - 2,267,600 km2 Estimated population 2005 (CIA Fact book) - 60,085,804 Total forest area 2000 (WRI) - 1,352,070 km2 Natural forest area 2000 (WRI) - 1,351,103 km2 Annual % forest cover change 1990-2000 (WRI) - -0.4%
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Key Findings

Forest zone (zone of analysis) - 100% country area
Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL) area - 681,318 km²
% of forest zone occupied by IFL - 29.4%
% world IFL located in country - 5.2%
% of IFL areas located in strict protected areas (WDPA) - 7.2%

For more information about Intact Forest Landscapes in USA states see here

IFL forest density assessment

% Closed forests, Open forests and Non-forest ecosystems inside IFL and outside IFL

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Intact Forest Landscapes borders - Google Earth KMZ-file:
Block 1 (554 kb)
Block 2 (6 141 kb)
Block 9 (116 kb)
Block 10 (4 549 kb)
Block 11 (14 265 kb)
Block 12 (7 092 kb)
Block 21 (18 518 kb)

Intact Forest Landscapes borders - ArcView SHP-file:
Block 1 (256 kb)
Block 2 (2 722 kb)
Block 9 (54 kb)
Block 10 (1 984 kb)
Block 11 (6 074 kb)
Block 12 (3 011 kb)
Block 21 (7 567 kb)

Intact Forest Landscapes borders - TIFF-file:
Block 1 (20 410 kb)
Block 2 (12 510 kb)
Block 9 (4 690 kb)
Block 10 (7 941 kb)
Block 11 (12 316 kb)
Block 12 (13 339 kb)
Block 21 (7 332 kb)

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Authors

Conterminous states: P. Potapov (Greenpeace)

Alaska: I. Zhuravleva (Greenpeace)

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