Table 2.  Percentages of Lands Excluded from Wind Energy Characterization in the Pacific Northwest Laboratory Moderate Exclusion Scenario

Land-Use Type

Percent of Land Excluded

Forest Land

50

Agricultural Land

30

Range

10

Mixed Agriculture/Range

20

Barren

10

Wetlands

100

Urban

100

Parks/Wilderness Areas

100

Source: Pacific Northwest Laboratory, An Assessment of Available Windy Land Area and Wind Energy Potential in the Contiguous United States, PNL-7789 (August 1991).