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lumber produced Douglas fir (fig. 11) ranks second only to southern 

 yellow pine, and ponderosa pine ranks tliird. Western hemlock, 

 sugar pine, and western white pine also are valuable timber trees 

 of this región. 



In California grow the celebrated bigtrees and redwoods. The 

 redwoods are found in a strip 20 to 30 miles wide along the coast, 

 extending from the southern borders of Oregon into Monterey 

 County, Calif. The bigtrees grow farther inland on the western 

 slope of the Sierra Nevada. Because of the comparatively small 

 number remaining, the big trees are no longer cut eominercially, but 

 redwood is still lumbered and has a variety of uses. 



Other species found in the Pacific coast región are western and 

 mountain hemlocks; noble, silver, lowland white, white, and Shasta 

 red firs ; western red, incensé, Port Orf ord, and Alaska cedars ; Sitka, 

 Engelmann, and bigcone spruces; western and Lyall larches; lodge- 

 pole, knobcone, and digger pines; Monterey and Gowan cypresses; 

 western and California junipers; single-leaf piñón; oaks; ash; 

 maples; birches; alders; cottonwood; buckeye; laurel; and madrona. 



HOW OUR FORESTS SERVE US 

 Forest Products 



For many of us the forest is no longer cióse at hand. Neverthe- 

 less, it has continued to contribute more and more to our needs until 

 today the uses to which its resources and producís are put are legión. 



The principal forest product, of course, is wood — one of the world's 

 most useful raw materials. AYood provides us with shelter; imple- 

 ments, furniture, and many other articles intimately associated with 

 our daily Uves are made of it. It gives us most of the paper that 

 goes into our newspapers and books. Our railroads are still laid 

 on wooden ties, and in millions of homes throughout the country 

 wood is still the solé or principal fuel used. It is also used in mining 

 the coal and drilling for the oil which heat countless other homes 

 and provide power for industries and transportaron systems. In 

 short, most of the producís used by the American people, whether 

 vegetable, animal, or mineral, use wood somewhere in the process of 

 procluction, distribution, or utilization. 



As a result of our enormous demand for wood, there has developed 

 a large group of industries engaged in the manufacture of forest 

 producís. Foremost among íhese is the lumber industry, which has 

 to do wiíh felling the trees, cutíing íhem into logs, and getting the 

 logs to the sawmill, where they are sawed into boards and rough 

 lumber (fig. 12). Planing milis remanufacture some of the rough 

 lumber into finished lumber, sash, door, blinds, and oíher producís. 

 Síill oíher plañís use the rough lumber for the manufacture of lasts 

 and relaíed producís, spools and bobbins, woodenware novelíies, toys, 

 and other íurned-wood producís. The veneer indusíry cuís from 

 logs íhe íhin sheeís of wood used in íhe making of baskeís, berry 

 boxes, and oíher coníainers. Veneers are also used exíensively by 

 the furniture indusíry, which also employs oíher forms of wood. The 

 cooperage industry employs wood in íhe form of bolís for the manu- 

 facture of barréis, kegs, buckeís, eíc. There are many oíher indus- 

 tries which manufacture the numerous wooden árdeles in common 



