4/Maryland Manual

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 and one State forest
nursery cover 127,369 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 80,385 acres, open to public hunting; 5
natural environment areas containing 13,753 acres.

Labor Force, Employment and Unemployment,
1983. Civilian labor force, 2,211,000; total
employment, 2,058,000; unemployment, 153,000,
or 6.9 percent. Non-agricultural workers (in
thousands): Manufacturing—durable goods, 113.2;
non-durable goods, 98.4. Non-Manufacturing—
services and mining, 401.1; retail trade, 323.7;
State and local government, 259.3; federal
government, 130.6; construction, 95.4; finance,
insurance, and real estate, 97.0; wholesale trade,
93.8; transportation, communication, and public
utilities, 87.1. Total non-agricultural employment,
1,699.6.

Manufacturers, 1982. Number of reporting units,
2,319; total employees, 215,318; total wages,
$4,412,028,463; total value added by manufactures
in 1978 was $7,739.2 million. Most important
manufactures: food and kindred products; primary
metals; electric and electronic equipment;
machinery, except electrical; chemical and allied
products; and transportation equipment.

Selected Industries. Maryland's ten largest private
employers: Automation Industries, Inc.; Baltimore
Gas & Electric; Bethlehem Steel Co.; C & P
Telephone Co.; IBM Corp.; Johns Hopkins
University and Hospital; Marriott Corp.;
Maryland Cup Corp.; Giant Food; Westinghouse
Corp.

Agriculture, 1983. 18,000 farms covering 2,750,000
acres. Total farm receipts $1,055,000,000. Most
valuable farm products: broiler chickens,
$329,000,000; field crops, $340,000,000; dairy
products, $220,000,000. Most valuable crops: corn,
$134,000,000; soybeans, $71,000,000; tobacco,
$28,000,000.

Mineral Production, 1983. Stone, 16,935,000 short
tons, value $73,068,000; sand and gravel,
10,000,000 short tons, value $36,000,000;
bituminous coal, 3,144,000 tons, approximate
value $86,774,400; clays (excludes ball clay),
447,000 short tons, value $1,515,000; lime, 7,000
short tons; value of mineral production that cannot

be itemized, $90,891,000; approximate total value
of all mineral production, $288,653,400.

Seafood Production, 1983. Fish, 11,384,000
pounds, dockside value $3,848,000; crabs,
48,755,000 pounds, dockside value $16,055,000;
oyster meat, 6,950,000 pounds, dockside value
$10,198,185; clams, including soft-shell, hard-shell,
and surf, 19,311,000 pounds, dockside value
$10,437,000; American lobster, 76,000 pounds,
dockside value $252,000. Maryland leads the
nation in blue crab production.

Port of Baltimore. One of the leading ports in the
United States, handling nearly 58,000,000 tons of
cargo in 1981. Baltimore is the second-ranked
container cargo port on the East Coast of the
United States, with more than 4.4 million tons
moved during 1981. Foreign commerce totalled
21,623,736 short tons in 1983. Baltimore is also
one of the largest ports of entry for the importation
of automobiles in the world, with 236,164 units
arriving during the year. 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, headquar-
ters for the Port, serves as the center of interna-
tional commerce for the region.

State Airports. The State owns and operates two
airports, Baltimore-Washington International
(BWI) and Glenn L. Martin State Airport. BWI
has grown significantly, both in air service and
passenger traffic. BWI reported 5,197,004
commercial passengers in FY 1983, an increase of
14.2 percent over the previous fiscal year. Twenty-
five passenger airlines now serve the facility with
over 570 flights a day. BWI also handles
approximately 59 percent of the air freight in the
Baltimore-Washington region, a total of
182,295,390 pounds in FY 1982. With several
airlines now offering 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. Glenn L. 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 squadrons and
the Maryland State Police Aviation Division
(MEDEVAC).