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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Rocky Mountain region, to high transportation costs on both its 

 imports and its exports. 



Thus it is of first-rate importance to the region, both as producer 

 and as consumer of forest products, that the productivity of its forests 



EXISTING GROWING STOCK -WESTERN WHITE PINE 

 EXISTING GROWING STOCK- CEDAR, HEMLOCK AND LARCH 



6 8 1012 14 16 18 20 324 26 Z8 30 32 34 36 3840 *<Z 44 46 48 50 K 54 565860 SMALL MEDIUM LARGE 

 D.AMETCR BREAST HIGH (.NCHE5) 



.MBER GROUP TOTALS 



FIGURE 10. Distribution of cubic volume by diameter classes on heavily stocked acre, site 1, western 

 white pine with cedar, hemlock, and larch, Kaniksu National Forest, Idaho. Future management 

 aims at converting stand more largely to white pine without eliminating subordinate species entirely. 

 In the gradual adjustment of the stand to the limits suggested, inferior species should share cuttings 

 with the white pine. 



and the vitality of its forest industries be maintained. The question 

 of the type of ownership necessary to give stability to forest produc- 

 tivity and use should, therefore, be settled as speedily as possible. 

 Permanent division between public and private ownership cannot 

 well be made until the risks that surround private forest ownership 

 are definitely limited. 



