23% to about 11% of the total area, a decline of about 170 ha. While not all forest loss can be attributed to flue-curing tobacco, given these data and interviews with producers, it seems clear that flue-curing contributed significantly to this loss. Figure 3 presents the same data for 1978 for the approximately 75 km2 covered by the 1978 and 1999 photos. (This is about half the area covered in common by the 1955/1960–1978 photos and includes even less of the surrounding hills.) The data from 1999 (Fig. 4) represent four years after the last tobacco contracts were issued