464 United States. 



Red Cedar, are the valuable conifer species in the 

 South. As regards valuable hardwoods, there is but 

 little change from north to south. 



The Pacific forest flora is almost entirely conifer- 

 ous, but here also climatic conditions permit a dis- 

 tinction of two very different forest regions, the Rocky 

 Mountain forest being mostly of rather inferior 

 development, and the Sierra forest exhibiting the 

 most magnificent tree growth in the world. 



Nearly half the country is forestless, grassy prairie 

 and plain, some 400 million acres being of the latter 

 description, while open prairie and brush forest, or 

 waste land occupies 600 million acres. 



Within the forest region of the East some 250 

 million acres have been turned into farms, leaving 

 still two-thirds of the area either under woods, or 

 else wasted by fire. Although any reliable data re- 

 garding this acreage are wanting, the area of really 

 productive woodland in this section may probably 

 be set down as not exceeding 300 million acres, which 

 would be nearly 40% of the total area, varying from 

 13% in the Central agricultural States to 50% in the 

 Southern States; Maine, New Hampshire and Ar- 

 kansas being most densely wooded, with over 60%. 

 The Rocky Mountain and Sierra forests, each with 

 100 million acres, would bring the total productive 

 woodland area to a round 500 million acres, or about 

 26% of the whole. (Later estimates including 

 brushlands of doubtful productive capacity, increase 

 this area to 550 million acres.) 



It is almost idle to attempt an estimate of the timber 

 still standing ready for the axe; not only are the data 



