Yearboo^ of Agriculture 1949 



PULP-TIMBER ALLOTMENTS 



TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST 



SUSTAINED POSSIBLE PULP 

 YIELD OUTPUT 



UNITS (TONS PER DAY) 



DOMINION OF CANADA 



Four sustained-yield units (composed of pulp-timber allotments A, B-H, C-D, and 

 E-F-G) have been tentatively established on the Tongass National Forest as a basis for 

 effecting a full, orderly, and economic development of the pulp and paper industry now 

 in prospect for Southeast Alaska. Within each unit intensive forestry will be practiced 

 on the timberlands, and the annual cut will be limited to the estimated annual growth. 



wholly disregarded in all timber-man- 

 agement planning. The remaining 4 

 million acres within the limits of the 

 timbered zone is barren rock or is cov- 



ered with muskeg, brush, or icefields. 

 The estimated volume of commer- 

 cial timber now on the Tongass Forest 

 is 78,500 million board feet, of which 



