Forest Cover Change within the Russian European North after the Breakdown of Soviet Union (1990–2005)

Table 1

Forest cover for year 2000 and annual gross forest cover loss attributed to logging (and other forms of anthropogenically-induced clearing) and wildfires for 1990–2000 and 2000–2005 time intervals per administrative region.

Region	Forest cover; for year; 2000, thousand ha	Annual gross forest		Annual gross forest cover
		cover loss attributed to		loss attributed to
		logging, thousand ha		wildfires, thousand ha
		1990–2000	2000–2005	1990–2000	2000–2005
(1) Arkhangelsk Oblast	21162.3	102.0	58.8	2.1	6.5
(2) Ivanovo Oblast	1058.3	1.8	3.8	0.0	0.8
(3) Kirov Oblast	7761.3	45.0	28.4	0.4	1.1
(4) Kostroma Oblast	4561.6	18.3	15.9	0.0	0.4
(5) Leningrad Oblast	5099.7	16.5	29.7	1.7	5.9
(6) Moscow Oblast	1984.6	3.0	9.4	0.0	3.4
(7) Murmansk Oblast	5088.4	7.8	2.2	2.2	3.9
(8) Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	3537.1	9.9	7.4	0.3	2.8
(9) Novgorod Oblast	3695.8	8.6	13.0	0.4	1.8
(10) Pskov Oblast	3146.0	4.4	8.2	0.0	5.3
(11) Tver Oblast	5148.0	10.4	15.8	0.3	4.2
(12) Vladimir Oblast	1598.3	4.5	7.2	0.1	4.5
(13) Vologda Oblast	10394.5	44.9	33.5	0.8	0.6
(14) Yaroslavl Oblast	1791.5	2.8	3.4	0.0	0.7
(15) Chuvash Republic	397.2	1.5	0.6	0.0	0.0
(16) Karelia Republic	9352.3	36.1	34.4	0.7	1.3
(17) Komi Republic	28415.9	104.2	31.1	21.4	26.7
(18) Mari-El Republic	1343.5	3.3	2.4	0.0	0.3
(19) Udmurt Republic	1978.5	8.8	4.2	0.0	0.0
(20) Perm Kray	9765.3	54.0	17.6	2.3	2.8