Table 2.

Average percentage of last fiscal year’s community forestry budget spent on performing certain types of tasks, and the maintenance/planting ratio. Standard errors are given in parentheses.

TaskTown population classAll towns (N = 77)
118–500 (N = 13)501–1K (N = 6)1K–3K (N = 17)3K–10K (N = 19)10K–50K (N = 17)> 50,000 (N = 5)
Planting22.7%60.8%33.7%50.5%27.2%15.0%35.5% (4.0)
Maintenance52.7%20.8%25.9%29.6%39.2%49.0%35.4% (3.8)
Removal8.9%16.8%14.2%8.8%10.4%13.0%11.3% (2.4)
Maintenance/planting ratio*2.70.61.20.81.84.11.6
Equipment0.8%1.7%0.6%0.5%4.4%8.8%3.2% (0.6)
Administration0.0%0.0%1.5%0.5%5.9%13.6%2.6% (0.7)
Other7.3%0.0%6.5%4.7%12.9%0.6%6.7% (2.7)
  • * Maintenance/planting ratio is the sum of maintenance and removal divided by planting.