Land Use Change from Biofuels Derived from Forest Residue: A Case of Washington State

Table 1

Observed land use changes.

	Land use in 2010
	Agriculture	Development	Forest	Undeveloped	Total
Land use 2007
Agriculture	492,032	9,703	10,265	11,890	523,890
Development	9,793	1,186,729	20,788	16,953	1,234,263
Forest	16,714	6,387	5,415,103	34,537	5,472,740
Undeveloped	41,018	9,861	20,622	516,097	587,599
Total	559,557	1,212,681	5,466,778	579,476	7,818,492

Matrix represents acres of land in 2010 in each use based on land use in 2007. The diagonal terms are acreage totals for land that stayed in the same use, and the off-diagonal terms are the acreage values for parcels that switched use.