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A NATIONAL PLAN FOE AMERICAN FORESTRY 



this purpose, which is a rather severe handicap in comparison with 

 the conditions in regions where saw timber furnishes sufficient re- 

 turns to support forest investments and pulpwood is more or less of a 

 by-product furnishing an added return. By saying portions of the 

 stand at each cutting for further development, it is possible to rebuild 

 stands to saw- timber production. 



Table 1 credits the region with 49,073,000 acres of privately owned 

 forests, of which 14,281,000 acres is farm woodland. As to general 

 condition the forest land is classified as follows : Poor and nonrestock- 

 ing, 12,133,000 acres; fair to satisfactory restocking, 24,683,000; 

 cordwood, 7,833,000 acres; and saw timber, only 4,424,000 acres. It 

 is clear that liquidation of the forest capital has proceeded farther 

 than in any other major forest region. Local observers do not report 

 very much evidence that this process has discontinued, and it seems 

 probable that it will continue until the original forest area is reduced 

 to a minimum. The final steps in this process will leave a huge area 

 of very low-grade stands. Table 19 shows in some detail the present 

 situation in forests other than farm woodlands. 



TABLE 19. Commercial forest in private ownership in the Lake States in 1982 l 



1 Data from Forest Statistics for the Lake States, 1931, compiled by the Lake States Forest Experiment 

 Station. Revised Mar. 30, 1932. 



2 Exclusive of farm woodlands. 



PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF FOREST MATERIALS, AND STATUS 

 OF LUMBER AND PAPER INDUSTRIES 



Lumber production in the Lake States region is now relatively 

 unimportant as compared with the great production of former years. 

 The deficit in lumber production as compared with consumption in 

 1928 was 1,808,871,000 board feet. Table 20, based on census data, 

 shows the production and consumption of lumber in these States in 

 1928, the latest year for which both production and consumption 

 figures are available. 



