MERCHANTABLE 

 STANDS 





SAW LOG 

 MATERIAL 



OTHER 

 MATERIAL 





SAW-TtMBER 













POLE-TIMBER 













UNMERCHANTABLE 

 STANDS 



50C 

 JON 



> 

 6D. FT. 





MILL 



2000 4000 

 TONS IN THOUSANDS 



Figure 37. — limber volume in the extensive j or est area, by jorest condition. 



is in much better condition in this respect than any 

 other part of the subregion. The eastern Pocono sub- 

 division has the largest proportion of its acreage in 

 unmerchantable areas at present; but most of these 

 are well stocked with fast-growing young trees of 

 commercial species. On the other hand, a con- 

 siderable acreage in the western Poconos is in scrub oak 

 and is used for blueberry production. The Peters 

 Mountain subdivision, though in poorer shape than 

 the North Mountain, is in better condition than the 

 Poconos. With the exception of parts of the western 

 Pocono subdivision, which have been covered with 

 scrub oak as long as white man has known them, these 

 extensive forests are all potentially productive. 



7 vpes urn/ Species 



The beech-birch-maple type dominates the exten- 

 sive forests in the north, and the various oak types in 

 the east and south (table 20). The beech-birch- 

 maple type is chiefly to be found in the North Moun- 

 tain subdivision, where it occupies 58 percent of the 

 area, and in (he northwest section of the western 

 Poconos. Virtually all the aspen type is in burned- 

 over tracts thai arc normally covered with the 



bcech-birch-maplr type; it occupies 21 percent of the 

 area in the North Mountain subdivision. 1 he red 

 oak-black oak-white oak type occupies somewhat 

 more than half the area in the eastern Poconos and in 

 the Peters Mountain subdivision: there is a si/able 



Table 20. — Forest area and volumes in the extensivi v major forest types 



Forest type 



Sugar maple-beech-yellow birch 

 Aspen-gray birch-pin cherry. . . 



White pine-hemlock 



White pine-white oak-red "-ik 

 Red oak-black oak-white oak. . 



( !hestnut i>ak 



Scrub ii. ik 



( )ther types 



I'ot.ll 



I'dicst area 



{era 



;,,' 800 

 s on 

 I I '. 500 

 i ; \ 00 

 185, 100 

 $3, on 

 [25, "i"' 



500 



>8 

 7 

 9 



12 



JO 

 ) 



10 

 l 



100 



Saw log material 



Other material 



/. ft. 







/' 



U6 800 





1 !8 



• 





1 



100 





100 





1,475 



17 



77, 



10 



600 



10 



1 '0 







• 



l 



- 



• 600 



* 





(') 



s 800 









' 







100 



8.904 





i Negligible, 

 The Anthracite Forest Region 



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