Projects of Many Uses 



OTHER FEDERAL FORESTS 



F. W. GROVER 



BESIDES THE NATIONAL for- 

 ests, which are the most extensive 

 of the federally owned timber and 

 watershed lands, eight other categories 

 of Federal lands bear large forests. 

 Some of them are held primarily for 

 timber production. Others, as wildlife 

 refuges, are owned and administered 

 for primary purposes other than the 

 production of timber or water, but are 

 susceptible of forestry management in 

 correlation with the specialized uses. 



THE O & C REVESTED LANDS are 

 administered by the Bureau of Land 

 Management of the Department of the 

 Interior. They comprise somewhat 

 more than 2 million acres, originally 

 selected pursuant to grants of public 

 lands made by Congress in 1866 and 

 1869 to aid in building a railroad from 

 Portland, Oreg., to the California line 

 and a wagon road from Coos Bay, 

 Oreg., to Roseburg, Oreg. Violations 

 of conditions of the grants by the 

 grantees or their successors led in 1916 



A typical scene in an arboretum is shown 

 above. 



and 1919 to repossession by the Gov- 

 ernment of the unsold parts of the 

 granted lands ; these now constitute the 

 "revested" lands. The lands are in 18 

 counties in western Oregon. Because 

 only odd-numbered sections were origi- 

 nally granted, the predominant pattern 

 is that of a checkerboard in squares of 

 640 acres, the intermingled lands being 

 mostly private or national forest. Many 

 of the tracts are less than a full section, 

 however, because of disposals in the 

 past. 



Nearly all of the lands are forested ; 

 many have fine stands of old-growth 

 conifers. The major species is Douglas- 

 fir, and types in which it predominates 

 cover 70 percent of the area of the 

 timberlands. White fir, grand fir, noble 

 fir, Pacific silver fir, western hemlock, 

 western redcedar, Port-Orford-cedar, 

 ponderosa pine, and sugar pine are also 

 well represented, usually in mixtures 

 but occasionally as dominant types. 

 Western species of hardwoods, such as 

 Oregon oak, bigleaf maple, red alder, 

 madrone, and the golden chinquapin 

 occur in limited quantities. 



All but a small proportion of the 



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