30 BULLETIN 154, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
AVERAGE AND MAXIMUM STANDS. 
Reconnaissance estimates covering 65,000 acres on the Deerlodge. 
National Forest, which may be considered as fairly representative 
of the lodgepole region in Montana, show that the average stand of 
merchantable timber for all ages, densities, and sites is approximately 
5,964 board feet per acre.t’ In Wyoming and Colorado the average 
stand of merchantable timber is estimated to run from 5,000 to 8,000 
board feet per acre. Average stands on timber sale areas are apt to 
run much higher than this, because they usually consist of the better 
timber, and also because the reconnaissance figures apply to a con- 
siderable amount of cut-over land and to areas covered with young 
growth that is barely merchantable. Average stands actually found 
on timber-sale areas on the different National Forests are shown in 
Table 7. 
TABLE 7.—Average stand per acre of lodgepole pine and associated species on 
timber-sale areas in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. 
Yield per acre. 
National Forest. 
Lodge- Other 
pole. species. 
ATA ANOS OOE cert cee cece eee aie coke Se ok mS eee Cae ee eee 19° 4103|Ee eee 19, 410 
WOCHELOPA COLORS s = eat ee ee See nent a oe te oe ee eee eee ee 6, 880 900 7, 780 
RE TITITTISOTY MCOLO Re Pe ets eee eee ensene es ieee oe ee eerie an eae anne 2,500 925 3,4 
MAT CInIs BOW Wy Os Sess. se cote ck eee, Fe en en Oe eee 14 2050 | be teehee 14, 225 
EFA yen aWiy On ae Seen occ sb ait eect bat ng Se nieek Se ee ee ees ne Roem BB84 hana 8, 884 
STOOL AAW iY. O fae eee oa Sete Ae et ete PE i 5 ee §, 3004| Seah eee 8, 300 
STIG POR CWO os eee es ee ecb hen Ane oes ee ee, Coe yes 2,771 2,571 5, 342 
Deerlodge: Monts. 22.222 Sco se 5 ot Cee ce es ccecitt ae oe ee lich, L438 se Serene 14,318 
While the stands on the Arapaho, Medicine Bow, and Deerlodge 
National Forests are considerably better than the average, they are 
not as heavy as the stands sometimes found on limited areas in virgin 
forests. Five of the heaviest stands yet measured contained the fol- 
lowing amounts of lodgepole, together with small quantities of 
Engelmann spruce, Alpine fir, and Douglas fir: 
Board feet 
National Forest: per acre. 
APA DANO, OOUO =e a ss ee ee 27, 791 
BRO CLO i a a Fe a a i 24, 400 
White River, Golos 26. Hs ene 2 ast see Ses ee ee Ree ae eee 2 sae 
Medicine BO ws: WYO xa i a Pe I 5 ee i ee 34, 512 
Beerlodgve,” Mont 26 2522 Bye ee i DT a a a ee 35, 9385 
In addition to the 35,935 feet of green lodgepole pine, the stand 
on the Deerlodge Forest, which was 200 years old, also contained 
4.610 feet of Englemann spruce and Alpine fir, and 8,090 feet of dead 
lodgepole, a total for live and dead timber of 48,635 board feet per 
acre. 
1 All stands were considered merchantable which contained 2,000 board feet per acre 
or more, based on a minimum log 16 feet long and 6 inches in diameter at the smaller 
end. Many 7-inch lodgepole trees will yield such a log. 
