4 LOGGING 



Species Billion Feet, B. M. 



Douglas fir 5^5 



Southern yellow pine 350 ^ 



Western yellow pine 275 



Redwood 100 



Western hemlock 100 



Western cedar 100 



Lodgepole pine 9° 



White and Norway pine 75 



Eastern hemlock 75 



Western spruce 60 



Eastern spruce 50 



Western fir 5° 



Sugar pine 30 



Cypress 20* 



Other conifers 100 



Hardwoods 5°° 



Total 2500 



Ownership.- — The standing merchantable timber in the 

 United States is owned approximately as follows: 



Private 75 .0 per cent 



National Forest 21 . 5 per cent 



Other Federal and State 3 ■ 5 per cent 



1 00.0 per cent 



The private stumpage is held, chiefly, in three regions: 



Pacific Northwest 46 . o per cent 



Southern pine region 29 . i per cent 



Lake States 4 • 5 per cent 



Other regions 20 . 4 per cent 



100. o per cent 



The ownership of the timber lands in the Pacific Northwest 

 is concentrated in a comparatively few hands. Three interests 



1 The Bureau of Corporations of the Department of Commerce and Labor, 

 in its report on The Lumber Industry, Part I, Standing Timber, estimated the total 

 stand of timber to be 2800 billion feet. Among the marked differences were the 

 following : 



Longleaf pine 384.4 billion feet 



Shortleaf and loblolly pine 15 2.1 billion feet 



Cypress 40.4 billion feet 



2 See the Lumber Industry, Part I, Standing Timber. Bureau of Corporatior-.s, 

 Department of Commerce and Labor. Washington, 1913. Pp. 11-24. 



