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annually. More than half of this is cordwood, nearly one-fourth is 

 props, posts, and poles and other round material, and another fourth 

 is saw timber. The entire cut, except approximately 16,000.000 feet 



Figure 30. — Ranger marking tree for cutting in a typical stand of western yellow pine 



of fuel and round material from juniper woodland, comes from the 

 national forests. 



Table 3/ — Amount of timber of the different species in the national forests 



of Utah 



Species 



Engelmann spruce 



Western yellow pine 



Lodgepole pine 



Douglas fir 



Alpine fir 



Various (excluding aspen, pinon, juniper) 



Total 



Aspen 



Pinon and juniper 



Amount 



Feet, board 



measure l 



1, 436, 743, 000 



1,284,575,000 



1, 470, 583, 000 



430,162,000 



245, 727, 000 



96, 955, 000 



4, 964, 745, 000 



Cords J 

 6, 000, 000 

 4, 000, 000 



1 Saw timber. 



Fuel, pole, and post material. 



The best timber is the least accessible. Most of the larger timber 

 bodies are far from railroads and markets. Other areas of good 

 timber are located in relatively inaccessible pockets, for the adjacent 

 valleys were settled early and the mountains close at hand were 

 combed for the best timber many years before the railroads brought 

 in material from the Northeast. 



Another reason why only scant use is made of local timber resources 

 is that the products of northwestern operators now dominate the 



