WESTEElSr YELLOW PINE IN OREGON. 3 



The important yellow-pine land of the State may be grouped into 

 thi'ee sections: (1) The Blue Mountain region, embracing all the tim- 

 bered land in the northeast quarter of the State, an area that is prac- 

 tically surromided by treeless country and to a large extent consists 

 of rolling hills; (2) the eastern slope of the Cascades and their out- 

 standing ranges, a zone of mountain tops and plateaus, which is bor- 

 dered on the west by the summit of the range and on the east by 

 desert, and on which yellow pine forms 80 per cent of all the com- 

 mercial timber; (3) soutJiwestern Oregon, embracing the Siskiyou 

 Mountains and the western foothills and slopes of the Cascades south 

 of the Umpqua River. The timber in these regions is distributed 

 as follows : 



Regions. 



Acres of 

 commer- 

 cial yellow 

 pme. 



Total stand 

 in thou- 

 sands of 



feet b. m. 



Blue Mountains. . . 

 East Slope Cascade 

 Southwest Oregon. 



Total 



4,276,000 

 3,400,000 

 2,330,000 



31,350,000 



33,185,000 



6,830,000 



10,006,000 



71,365,000 



Most of Oregon's 70,000,000,000 feet of yellow pine occurs in 10 

 counties, each of which has over 1,500,000,000 feet b. m. and 300,000 

 acres of commercial yellow-pine timberland. In the order of the 

 volume of their standmg yellow pine, the counties are thought to 

 rank as follows: Klamath, Crook, Lake, Grant, Jackson, Wallowa, 

 Baker, Wheeler, Harney, and Union. Table 1,^ prepared in 1912 and 

 1913, indicates the acreage and amount of yellow pine in private and 

 in Goveriunent ownership for the counties in which it occurs in com- 

 mercial quantities. 



Table 



1 . — Ownership and stand of yellou 



pine in Oregon, by counties. 



,, ,^„ Privately owned yeUow- 



Countj. pine timberland. 



Government yellow-puie 

 timberland. 2 



Total 



Baker 



Acres. 

 213, 168 

 .535,346 

 59,520 



Feet b. in. 

 1,536,000,000 

 6,847,900,000 

 45,400,000 



Acres. 

 306,064 

 638,115 

 493,721 



Feet b. m. 

 1,345,000,000 

 6,415,000,000 

 55, 300; 000 



Acres. 



519, 232 

 1, 173, 461 



553,241 



Feet b. m. 

 2 881 000 000 



Crook 



Curry 



13,262,900,000 



100,700,000 



3 20,000,000 



8,168,000,000 



2,624,000,000 



30,000,000 



5,6.54,000,000 



1,018,400,000 



18,118,600,000 



8,840,000,000 



■•40,000,000 



920,000,000 



508,000,000 



1,9.56,000,000 



3,333,500,000 



1,200,000,000 



2,687,000,000 



Grant 301,820 



Harney 36,960 



Hood River 6,000 



Jackson , .592,751 



Josephine 773,927 



Klamath 836,7.50 



Lake ' 301,.539 



2,85.3,666,666 



339, 000, OfW 



18, 000, ()(K) 



.5,431,000,000 

 721,600,000 



7,393,000,(X)() 



3,340,000,(JOO 



884,200 

 315,335 

 4,000 

 31,840 

 363, 327 

 994,000 

 569, 232 



5,315,000,000 



2,285,000,000 



12,000,000 



223,000,000 



296,800,000 



10,725,600,000 



5,. 500, 000, 000 



1,186,020 



352,295 



10,000 



624, 591 



1,137,254 



1,830,750 



870,771 



■']5,000 



137, 200 



67,200 



355,440 



6S8, 486 



185,000 



300, .565 





112,200 

 32,200 



235,640 



171,330 

 4O,0OfJ 



198,875 



777, (KXJ, 000 



275, 000, OfX) 



1,. 501,000,01X1 



l,80H,.50O,(MK) 



280, 000, OCX) 



l,.586,000,fXX) 



25,000 

 35,000 

 119,800 

 517, 156 

 145,000 

 101,690 



143,000,000 

 233,000,000 

 395,000,000 



1,. 525, 000, 000 

 920,000,000 



1,101,000,000 





I'nion 



Wallowa 





Wheeler 





Total 



4,448,026 



34,812,4(XJ,000 1 .5,543,480 



36,489,700,000 



10,000,506 



71,362,100,000 



* From a compilation prepared largely by Forest Examiner R. M. Evans on the amount, distribution, 

 and ownership of vellow 7)ine in Oregon. 



* All within the National Forests except that which is within the Klamath and Warm Springs Indian Res- 

 ervations and the small amount owned by the State. 



» Estimated; fX'foirs as Sfsii,t*rcd trees. 



* Estimated; occnirs chiefly as scattered trees. 



