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Classification of lands in T. 9 S., R. fO E. 



Forested 



Acres. 

 3,880 



Nonforested 19,160 



Badly burned 500 



Logged None. 



Agricultural None. 



Grazing 18, 000 



Bare rocks 660 



Total stand of timber in T. 9 8., R. 20 E. 



Species. 



Mill timber. 



Pole and luel 

 timber. 



Total volume of 

 all timber. 



Feet B. M. 



Lodgepole pine 



White-bark pine . . . 



Subalpine fir 



Engelmann spruce . 



1, 500, 000 



Cubiefeet. 

 1, 000, 000 

 2, 000, 000 

 1, 000, 000 

 2, 000, 000 



Cubiefeet. 

 1, 000, 000 

 2, 000, 000 

 1,000,-000 

 2, 270, 000 



Total. 



1, 500, 000 



6, 000, 000 



6, 270, 000 



Composition of forest in T. 9 8. , R. SO E. , including trees of all species with basal diameters of 3 inches and 



upward. 



Per cent. 



Lodgepole pine 30 



Wliite-bark pine ^- 35 



Subalpine fir 10 



Engelmann spruce 25 



TOWNSHIPS ADJOINING THE ABSAROKA DIVISION. 



The following-described tracts, to wit, T. 7 S., R. 19 E.; T. 7 S., R. 20 E.; T. 

 8 S., R. 20 E., adjoin the Absaroka division on the east. As they are partly 

 forested from the termination of the timbered areas stretching west, and may in the 

 future be included in the forest reserve, the estimates and detailed descriptions have 

 been extended to cover them. 



Township 7 South, Range 19 East. 



Topography. — The central and southern areas comprise steep, rocky spurs, 

 rising to form divides between "West Rocky Fork and the Red Lodge Creek 

 drainage and reaching elevations of 9,800 feet. The northern portion of the 

 township consists of rolling foothill areas intersected by many shallow ravines 

 and gulches. 



Mining. — None. 



Agriaultural adaplahility. — -The mountainous areas are too rough for tillage, 

 and the foothill region is so stony and so cut up with ravines and gulches that 

 farming is practically impossible. 



