46 FOREST RESOURCES; PRINCIPAL TREES AND REGIONS 



stream driving; they are shaky and therefore are generally left in 

 the woods. 



Western White Pine. This is one of the most valuable trees in the 

 country and is one of the three important white pines which are 

 merchandised widely and used for high-grade finish, pattern, and box 



FIG. 26. Typical example of thrifty western white pine left on timber sale area 

 after cutting by the selective logging method from along the west branch of the 

 Priest River in the Kaniksu National Forest in northern Idaho. Low stumps 

 were cut and merchantable timber taken to 6" in the tops. Western white pine 

 is one of the most valuable trees left in our American forests. 



lumber. There are 19,508,000,000 b.f. of standing timber of this spe- 

 cies, over 15 billion of which are found in the Northern Rocky Moun- 

 tain region largely in northern Idaho and to some extent in north- 

 western Montana. About 4 billion b.f. are found in the Pacific Coast 

 region, chiefly in Washington. Every year about 424,000,000 b.f. of 

 this species are normally cut. In the census figures it is tabulated 

 with northern or eastern white pine. 



