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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



TABLE 2. Comparison of Indian forest lands and timber with totals for States 



and regions 1 



1 Forest Service, data. Areas withdrawn from timber use, as in parks, not included. 



2 Less than 500. 



s These figures do not include the acreage of noncommercial pinon-juniper type. 



In certain lumber- and livestock-producing localities (subdivisions 

 of the regions given in table 2), and on important protection water- 

 sheds, Indian timber, range lands, and protection forests constitute 

 one of the major classes of ownership and play an important part in 

 industry and protection. 2 For example: Of the commercial timber 

 tributary to the Klamath Falls (Oreg.) lumber manufacturing dis- 

 trict, 47 percent is privately owned, 31 percent is on national forests, 

 and 22 percent is on the Klamath Indian Reservation. 



Of the commercial timber tributary to the upper Columbia River 

 (Okanogan, Ferry, and Stevens Counties in Washington), 33 percent 

 is privately owned; 32 percent is on Indian reservations; 25 percent 

 on national forests; and 10 percent on State lands. 



In eastern Oregon, including the Klamath District, the cut of 

 Indian timber is over 20 percent of the total annual cut. 



Similar examples showing the regional importance of Indian pro- 

 tection forests and grazing lands could be given if space permitted. 

 Although some of the Indian reservations do not have timber and 



2 The following examples are taken from an unpublished report (1931) by Lee Muck on the status of 

 Indian forests in relation to a national program of sustained yield. 



