As per the ‘State of Forest Report 2001’ published by Forest Survey of India, Dehradun, the forest cover of Maharashtra is 47482 sq. km. (30894 sq. km. ‘dense forests’ with crown density above 40 percent and the remaining 16588 sq. km. being ‘open forests’ with crown density falling between 10 to 40 percent. The forest cover in the state has been showing increasing trends in the 1997, 1999 and 2001 assessments. In the 2001 assessment, the increase in forest cover in the State has been recorded as 810 sq km over the 1999 assessment.
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