Dropped to third place

In the article, “Fewer control Canada forests” (BDN, April 5), with the sub-heading, “Maine records most industrial forestland,” I was correctly quoted as the source of information on land owned by forest industry in Maine.

However, that information is now obsolete. With the sale of MeadWestvaco’s lands in Maine last year, Maine has dropped to third place in industrial forestland ownership in the United States, behind Oregon and Alabama. The largest landowner class in Maine is now the small, non-industrial forestland owner.

David B. Field

E. L. Giddings Professor of Forest Policy

Chair, Department of Forest Management

University of Maine