Forest Area. More than 2,798,000 acres, or
approximately 44 per cent of the land surface.
Chief forest products are lumber, pulpwood, and
piling. Nine State forests, one State forest nursery,
and two demonstration areas cover 131,822 acres.

State Parks and Recreation Areas. Thirty-five
operational State parks covering 73,159 acres; 87
lakes and ponds open to public fishing; 9 State
forests and portions of 15 State parks open to
public hunting; 34 wildlife management areas,
covering 83,023 acres, open to public hunting; 6
natural environment areas containing 13,753
acres.

Labor Force, Employment and Unemployment,
1984. Civilian labor force: 2,253,000 total
(2,150,000 employed; 103,000 or 4.6 percent
unemployed). Agricultural workers: 368,100 total.
Non-agricultural workers: 1,885,100 total includes
those in manufacturing and non-manufacturing.
Employed in Manufacturing: 217,000 (durable
goods, 115,500; non-durable goods, 101,600).
Employed in Non-Manufacturing: 1,668,000.
Number employed in non-manufacturing includes
services, 472,400; mining, 1,700; retail trade,
369,600; wholesale trade, 103,100; State and local
government, 253,600; federal government,
139,300; construction, 129,000; finance, insurance,
and real estate, 109,600; transportation,
communication, and public utilities, 89,700.

Manufactures, 1983. Total employees, 225,700;
total wages, $5,031,500,000; total value added, in
1983, by manufactures was $10,735.8 million.
Most important manufactures: electric and
electronic equipment, $2,153,500,000; food and
kindred products, $1,432,000,000; chemical and
allied products, $1,111,200,000.

Selected Industries. Maryland's ten largest private
employers: 1) Westinghouse Electric Corp.; 2)
Bethlehem Steel Co.; 3) Baltimore Gas & Electric
Co.; 4) Johns Hopkins University; 5) C & P
Telephone Co.; 6) IBM Corp.; 7) Johns Hopkins
Hospital; 8) Marriott Corp.; 9) General Motors;
10) Martin Marietta.

Agriculture, 1986. 17,000 farms covering
2,500,000 acres. Total farm receipts
$1,173,264,000. Most valuable farm products:
broiler chickens, $377,587,000; field crops,
$283,668,000; dairy products, $215,844,000. Most
valuable crops: corn, $141,654,000; soybeans,
$67,731,000; tobacco, $41,547,000.

Mineral Production, 1984. Stone, 22,117,000
short tons, value $94,864,000; sand and gravel,
14,234,000 short tons, value $46,671,000;
bituminous coal, 4,056,000 tons, approximate

value $113,690,000; clays (excludes ball clay),
374,000 short tons, value $1,484,000; lime, 7,000
short tons; value $419,000; value of mineral
production that cannot be itemized, $98,261,000;
approximate total value of all non-fuel mineral
production, $241,701,000.

Seafood Production, 1985. Fish, 10,087,643
pounds, dockside value $3,030,306; crabs,
58,764,032 pounds, dockside value $24,210,845;
oyster meat, 8,665,943 pounds, dockside value
$15,305,862; clams, including soft-shell, hard-
shell, and surf, 23,451,384 pounds, dockside value
$12,860,926; American lobster, 82,295 pounds,
dockside value $281,435. Maryland leads the
nation in blue crab production.

Port of Baltimore. One of the leading ports in the
United States, Baltimore is the second-ranked
container cargo port on the East Coast of the
United States, with more than 5.1 million tons of
containers moved during 1985. Foreign commerce
totalled 26,105,590 short tons in 1985. Baltimore
is also one of the largest ports of entry for the
importation of automobiles in the world, with
631,306 short tons moving through Baltimore
during 1985. Other chief imports are ore,
chemicals, petroleum products, gypsum rock,
lumber, rolled and finished steel products,
fertilizers and materials, unrefined copper,
inedible molasses, sugar, and general cargo. Chief
exports are grains, machinery, coal and coke, iron
and steel scrap, iron and steel semifinished
products, earth moving equipment, fertilizers, and
general cargo. The World Trade Center in
Baltimore, headquarters for the Port, serves as the
center of international commerce for the region.

State Airports. The State owns and operates two
airports, Baltimore-Washington International
(BWI) and Martin State Airport. BWI has grown
significantly, both in air service and passenger
traffic. In 1985, BWI reported 7,830,404
commercial passengers, an increase of 17.3
percent over the previous year. With over 620
nights daily, twenty-one passenger and nine cargo
airlines now serve the facility. BWI also handles
approximately 59 percent of all air freight in the
Baltimore-Washington region (198,557,250
pounds in 1985). Several airlines at BWI now
offer both passenger and cargo flights to a variety
of international destinations. BWI is becoming a
gateway airport for the United States, as well as
serving the air transportation needs of the region.
Martin State Airport is the largest general aviation
facility on the East Coast. Handling primarily
private and corporate aircraft, Martin is also the
main base for Maryland's two air national guard