420 



the lower levels is a jungle of trees, shrubs, and entangled vines, which musl 

 be seen to In' appreciated. 



The plants identified in the region to date number 687. The trees and 

 plants most noticeable in flic peninsula are fir, cedar, spruce, hemlock, red 

 elder. "Shallon," "Rubes," salal, "Vaccinum," "Ribes," Selaginella ("S. 

 oregona"), crab-apple, devil's club, "usnea," bearded lichens, bearberry, 

 dogwood ("Cornus nuttallii"), and oregon grape. Here Douglas fir. tide- 

 land spruce, and red cedar reach gigantic proportions. The a-dlable timber 

 per township averages 3.000 feet B. M. per acre amid the high mountains 

 up to 59,000 feet B. M. per acre often in the Quillayute region. There is 

 estimated to be 32,890.717 INI. feet B. M. lumber in the region according 

 to the estimate of Henry Gannett, Chief of Division of Forestry (1899). 1 

 This estimate has been more than doubled by Dodwell and Rixon at a later 

 date; they give 69,000.000 M. feet B. M. 2 And the close measurement 

 now used would likely double that amount. One quarter section in the 

 Quillayute country cruised both by the Lacy Company cruisers and by the 

 Clallam county cruisers for purpose of tax-estimating, aggregated more than 

 30.000,000 feet B. M. There is enough timber in the region to supply the 

 whole United States' demand for considerable over two years. 3 



The timber by species is approximately as follows: Spruce, 6 per cent.; 

 cedar, 10 per cent.: Lovely fir, 18 per cent.; Red fir, 24 per cent; hemlock, 

 42 per cent. 



Geographically, the Olympic Peninsula is jiareelled out in the following 

 county divisions: Chehalis county, Mason county, Jefferson county, and 

 Clallam county. For convenience the area of the timber in each and the 

 timber of same will be considered separately. 



Mason County. 



This county includes the southeastern part of the Olympic Mountains, 



from which it extends eastward so as to include much of the Hood Canal 



country. The portion within the mountains contains but little timber of 



present merchantable value, the "low country'' of the county, however, 



'Twentieth Annual Report, U. S. G. S. (1898-1899). Part V. pp. 12-37. 



-Arthur Dodwell and Theodore F. Rickson: Forest Conditions in the Olympic 

 Forest Reserve, "Washington. Professional paper. U. S. Geol. Surv.. No. 7, 110 pages, 

 20 plates, 1 map. 1902. 



3 See Reagan: Transactions of the Kansas Acadamy of Science, p. 130, in article. 

 "Some Xotes on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington." 



