Article IV. — Forest Conditions in Illinois. By R. Clifford 

 Hall and O. D. Ingall, Forest Assistant and Forest Agent, Forest 

 Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Introduction 



Illinois as a timber-producing state is so overshadowed by Illinois 

 as an agricultural and mining state that little thought is given to the 

 forests as a source of v^ealth. Yet the output of her sawmills in 



XOTE 



Owing to a deficiency of publication funds it has been impossible 

 to reproduce the forestry map meutioued ou pages 175 and 170. The 

 statistical data referred to as shown by this map are given in the fol- 

 lowing table. 



Percentages, for each Couiit3% of Bottomland, Upland Hill, and 

 Upland Plain in Forest. 



County 



Southern Ii.i.inois: 



Pulaski 



Massac 



Pope 



Hardin . 



Gallatin 



White 



Wabash. 



Edwards 



L^awrence 



Alexander 



Union 



Jackson. . . 

 Randolph. 

 Monroe . . . 



Johnson 



Williamson . 



Saline 



Hamilton . . . 

 Franklin. . . . 

 Jefferson. . . . 



Perry 



Washington. 



Northern Ili^inois: 



Calhoun 



Pike 



Jo Daviess 



