100 ABSAROKA DIVISION OF YELLOWSTONE FOREST RESERVE. 



lodgepole-pine the young growth is chiefly spruce. Nearly all the forest in 

 the township is in a very active stage of natural thinning. 



Undergrowth. — The brush growth is scanty throughout. 



Z*^fer.— Here and there along Slough Creek and on Horseshoe Mountain the 

 forest is quite free from litter, and presents, in the older stands, a clean, park-like 

 appearance. Elsewhere in the township the forest is littered with an immense 

 amount of dead and down pole timber, the result of overstockage. 



Humus. — In the stands bordering the valley on the west a layer of humus or 

 duflf, 3 to 6 inches in depth, covers the forest floor. In the stands on the eastern 

 side of the valley it is very thin or altogether lacking. 



Classification of lands in T. 8 S.,' R. IS E. 



Acres. 

 Forested 20,640 



Nonforested . .^. , 2, 400 



Badly burned l 100 



Logged None. 



Agricultural None. 



Grazing 1, 800 



Bare rocks '. 500 • 



Total stand of timber in f. 8 S., R. IS E. 



Species. 



Mill timber. 



Pole and fuel 

 timber. 



Total volujne of 

 all timber. 



Lodgepole pine 



White pine 



White-bark pine . . . 



Bed fir .,.-.. 



■Subalpine fir 



Engelmann spruce . 



Total 



Feet B. M. 

 65, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 



5, 000, 000 

 52, 000, 000 



125, 000, 000 



Cubic feet. 

 64, 000, 000 



4, 000, 000 



5, 500, 000 

 10, 000, 000 



Oubicfeet. 



75, 700, 000 



540,000 



4, 000, 000 



900, 000 



5, 500, 000 



19, 360, 000 



83, 500, 000 



106,000,000 



•Gomposition of forest in T. 8 S., R. IS E., including trees of all species with basal diameters of S inches and 



upward. 



Per cent. 

 Lodgepole pine 62 



White pine ^ 8 



White-bark pine 7. 2 



Bed fir 2 



Subalpine fir g. 8 



Engelmann spruce ^.... 20 



