ers. Powell County had 43 percent of the forest industry-owned timberland 

 in the working circle. Every ownership group in all of the counties had 

 much more softwood commercial timberland than hardwood. Beaverhead 

 County had the largest proportion of the sampled commercial timberland on 

 hardwood forest types with 14.0 percent. Deer Lodge County had the small- 

 est proportion on hardwood forest types with 5.0 percent. Lewis and Clark 

 County had the most commercial timberland in the working circle, and Silver 

 Bow County had the least. 



Timber Volume by Ownership Group 



Although Lewis and Clark County had the most commercial timberland, it 

 was second to Powell County in the amount of volume. Broadwater County 

 had the least volume on the sampled commercial timberland. The other pri- 

 vate ownership group had more than half of both the growing stock and 

 sawtimber volume in each county (see Tables 37 and 38). Forest industries 

 had more volume than state and other public owners in Granite, Madison, and 

 Powell Counties. Other private timberlands in Lewis and Clark and Powell 

 Counties had almost equal amounts of board foot volume (23 percent each) 

 which was more than found in any other county. Granite, Madison, and 

 Powell Counties had 87 percent of the board foot volume found on forest 

 industry owned timberland (872,500,000 board feet). 



It is not surprising that volumes by softwood and hardwood species were 

 similar to those by forest type. Again, Powell County had the most volume, 

 and Broadwater had the least. Most of the growing stock and sawtimber 

 volume by species was on other private land in every county but Madison, 

 where other private owners had a little less than half of the softwood vol- 

 ume. As before, state and other public owners had more volume than forest 

 industries except in Granite, Madison, and Powell Counties. 



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