, and subsequent amendments, the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, conducts a series of continuing forest surveys of all states to provide up-to-date information about the forest resources of the Nation. This is a report on the latest forest survey of West Virginia. It supersedes two previous reports published in 1952 and 1964. The .Northeastern Forest Experiment Station staff during this most recent effort had the excellent help and cooperation of the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources. The resurvey of the State was directed by Carl E. Mayer, Resources Evaluation Project Leader. He was assisted by Joseph E. Barnard, who was responsible for the design of the inventory and sample selection as well as for supervision of data compilation. John R. Peters supervised the photo interpretation and the data collection by field crews. David R. Dickson applied the generalized data processing system, FINSYS, to the specific data needs of the West Virginia inventory and produced summary tables for the State and by counties and units. Teresa M. Bowers assisted in the inventory design by performing all the calculations necessary for sample-size determination and plot selection. She was responsible for the coordination of key-punching and other data-preparation tasks and the final preparation and statistical checking of tables for the report. James T. Bones, with the assistance of State personnel, collected and compiled the data on current utilization levels, timber products output, and harvesting and manufacturing residues. He was assisted in the compilation phase by

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