Table 2 Mean values by engagement group

	FFCP engagement status of parcel
	Unengaged	Declined	In process	Enrolled	All
Normalized vegetation index (NDVI), 1985	803.65	810.90	807.85	803.10	803.92
Change in NDVI, 1985–2019	31.96	27.98	36.17	26.85	32.01
Average annual percent forested area cut, 1985–2019	2.14	2.52	2.29	2.49	2.16
Average annual percent harvested, 1985–1999	2.72	3.11	2.87	2.74	2.73
Average annual percent harvested, 2000–2014	1.99	2.24	2.18	2.74	2.01
Average annual percent harvested cut, 2015–2019	1.35	1.93	1.41	1.54	1.36
Forest area (Ha)	65.87	114.54	128.46	96.04	68.92
Forest area: Less than 4 ha	0.26	0.08	0.07	0.09	0.25
Forest area: 4–20 ha	0.34	0.31	0.33	0.36	0.34
Forest area: 40–79 ha	0.36	0.47	0.48	0.48	0.37
Forest area: 80 or more ha	0.05	0.14	0.12	0.06	0.05
Distance to road, meters	319.48	462.26	361.60	446.53	323.99
Distance to road: Less than 100 m	0.24	0.10	0.14	0.06	0.24
Distance to road: 100–249 m	0.26	0.21	0.28	0.28	0.26
Distance to road: 250–500 m	0.30	0.36	0.35	0.37	0.30
Distance to road: 500 or more meters	0.20	0.34	0.23	0.30	0.20
Years owned	15.84	19.40	13.63	11.26	15.75
Years owned: Less than 5 years	0.21	0.21	0.29	0.34	0.21
Years owned: 5–9 years	0.10	0.09	0.11	0.13	0.10
Years owned: 10–14 years	0.08	0.08	0.12	0.06	0.08
Years owned: 15 or more years	0.61	0.63	0.48	0.47	0.60
Owner is a person, not entity	0.85	0.73	0.85	0.83	0.84
Owner address is within 40 km of parcel	0.47	0.43	0.40	0.39	0.47

Authors calculations based on program data from AFF, county tax records, LandTrendr vegetation and disturbance data, and USDA Cropscape data. The sample contains 12,855 parcels likely eligible for the Family Forest Carbon Program. Parcels whose owners never considered them for the Program are Unengaged (n = 12,023), those considered but whose owners declined to enroll are Declined (n = 208), those in process are In Process (n = 498), and those for which a contract has been signed are Enrolled (n = 127).

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