Issues 



An area valued by recreationists may 

 also have timber wanted by logging 

 companies. Is the value of the timber to 

 private industry greater? Or is the land 

 and its trees more important to the 

 public? Other questions may be: Are 

 roads acceptable in a roadless area? 

 What is the age and condition of the 

 timber? How will logging affect the wa- 

 tershed? 



2 . There may be a market for the minerals 

 in national forests. Recent discoveries 

 of natural gas and oil along the Over- 

 thrust Belt (see the Minerals section of 

 this series) may mean that develop- 

 ment will take place in these forests. 

 How do we decide how much? 



3. As forest land increases in value for re- 

 sorts, skiing areas, second homes, and 

 camping, how is a fair decision made? 

 Who gets what? 



Further Reading 



Forest Habitat Types of Montana. 1977. 

 USDA Technical Report. lNT-34. Ogden. 

 Utah. 



Forests and Forestry in the American 

 States. 1968. Ralph R. Widner, ed. 



* The Hidden Forest. 1969. Olson. 

 Sigurd F. and Lee Blacklock. The Viking 

 Press, Inc. New York. 



Montana in Maps. 1974. Robert L. Tay- 

 lor, et al. Montana State University. Boze- 

 man. 



The National Forests of America. 1968. 

 Freeman, Orville L.and Michael Frome. G.R 

 Putnam's Sons. New York. 



The Secret Life of the Forest. 1970. 

 Ketchum, Richard M.' American Heritage 

 Press. (McGraw-Hill.) New York. 



Trees of the Rocky Mountains. 1962. 

 Preston, Richard J., Jr. Iowa State Univer- 

 sity Press, Ames, Iowa. 



* TYees and Shrubs for Montana. January 

 1977. Cooperative Extension Service. 

 Montana State University. Bozeman. 



♦Student reading. 



Written and edited by: Peggy Todd 

 Layout: June Virag 

 Production: Gordon Taylor 

 Data and Word Processing: 

 George Cawlfield. Jack Zanto, 

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The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation has had 

 many requests for information about the minerals, water, forests, and other 

 resources in Montana. This booklet is one of a series presented to answer 

 some of those questions and to stimulate an interest in the natural resources 

 of Montana. The University of Montana cooperated with DNRC in preparing 

 the series which was financed in part by a federal grant made under Title I of 

 the Higher Education Act of 1965. 



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