怀化地区是湖南省重点林区,蓄积约占全省四分之一。全区辖十二个县(市)276万ha,其中林业用地193万ha(有林地118万ha)。“四五”森林资源清查活立木蓄积为6266万m~3,而“六五”清查只剩4507万m~3,十一年纯减1759万m~3,年平160万m~3。加上当时的林木生长量,这个时期的年森林资源消耗量在560万m~3左右, Huaihua is a key forest area in Hunan Province, accounting for about one-fourth of the province. The district has 12,660,000 ha of 12 counties (cities), including 1.93 million ha of forestry land (with 1.18 million ha of forest land). During the fourth five-year plan period, the inventory of living wood in forest resources inventory was 62.66 million m 3, while there were only 45.07 million m 3 in the sixth five-year plan period, with a net decrease of 17.59 million m 3 in eleven years and an annual average of 1.6 million m 3. Coupled with the amount of forest growth at that time, the consumption of annual forest resources in this period was about 5.6 million m 3,