Taste 26.—Annual drain on forests of the Upper Peninsula of 
Michigan—estimated normal for period 1940-49 
Merchantable trees | ““Unmer- 
a 
_ Total Sawlog SA cesar 
volume | volume volume | Salvage 
1,000 7,000 
Cutting: cubic feet | board feet| Cords Cords 
arbor 15 28 eS ee 60,750 | 391, 600 1, 200 1, 700 
Puilpwood 7. -— === 37, 650 102, 900 274, 200 21, 500 
Rnelwood= _-..*—-===.=-=- 23, 000 27,300 | 244, 200 403, 800 
Distillation wood__----_- 11,170 | 33,250 80, 600 77, 000 
Mine timbers-_____-____-- 7, 280 38, 300 11, 600 27, 900 
Wood product logs 3____- | 4, 650 29, 900 ADO) ee 
Fence posts... --=------- BAGO |= Sen 59, 500 300 
Poles and piling_--------- 2,7 600 35, 200 100 
Wenleeriloess. === -==— 1.940} 12, a ee See 
Hewediticge = == || INZ10)|. % 750 GiR00 eat on 
Container logs 4______-_--| 1,510 | SiS00). eee ee 
Miscellaneous $_______-- | 1, 800 3,700 | 15, 600 | 8, 700 
Bubtotal==—--===—- =.= 159, 570 657, 700 729, 300 541, 000 
Logging waste___---_-__- 61, 330 30)800))}) '753;.500)}-__ --=_ 
Total cutting... --_..__- | 219, 900 688, 500 (1, 482, S00 541, 000 
Linile2s6b oe 6, 200 11, 700 30 ee ae 
Wind, insects, disease, ete__ 21, 100 } 58, 200 TGS ACLU ee eee 
Total drain | 247,200 | 758, 400 |1, 698, 800 eae : 
1 Includes sawed ties and logs shipped out of the Upper Peninsula for 
sawing elsewhere. 
2 About two-thirds of this pulpwood is shipped out of the Upper 
Peninsula. 
3 Logs for bowls and miscellaneous items. 
4 Logs used for making barrels, cheese boxes, baskets, etc. 
5 Lath, shingles, and excelsior bolts; cabin logs and miscellaneous 
rough products. 
TasLe 27.—Normal annual drain on the forests of the Upper 
Peninsula, by species, 1940-49 
Species 
Softwoods: 
Wihite pine = 5/2 -22==-. 
Rediping=== 2.7) 3 -s S 
Jack pine. 5.2-=2 2. ee 
Sprucess-===-=2--£22-2 22" 
iBalsambfiye==-e=) ee 
Tamarack».--2-<-—---—2=- 
Hemlock 
SS Ceg ar ne as ee 
Hardwoods: 
Sugar maple=__----- ----+ 
Yellow birch__---------_- 
iIBasswood==- -s=2-2=----==2 
Soft:maples-.-2-------. +. 
Miscellaneous--_-------_- 
AT Speciess2 2 2-2-5 2-25 52 2o- 
Drain on merchantable trees 
Cut from 
| unmer- 
Saw Cord- Total chantable 
timber wood ! volume | ™aterial 
M board M cubic 
feet Cords feet Cords 
28, 000 40, 700 7, 400 14, 200 
3, 200 4, 400 900 900 
9, 500 40, 600 4, 600 1, 600 
65, 300 173, 700 24, 200 15, 300 
26, 800 122, 000 13, 700 3, 200 
9, 500 11, 900 2, 600 33, 000 
149, 400 211, 800 39, 000 67, 700 
eae | 15, 500 5, 900 
291, 700 605, 100 107, 900 141, 800 
246, 400 407, 400 68, 700 190, 400 
111, 700 182, 000 31, 000 102, 400 
22, 800 37, 700 6, 300 8, 500 
26, 500 42, 100 7, 300 11, 500 
19, 800 36, 700 5, 800 18, 800 
1, 900 6, 400 800 500 
14, 500 79, 500 8, 500 22, 800 
8, 400 35, 900 4, 100 7, 500 
10, 700 44, 800 5, 100 35, 700 
4, 000 14, 500 1, 700 1, 100 
466, 700 887, 000 139, 300 399, 200 
758, 400 |1, 492, 100 247, 200 541, 000 
| 
1 Small trees, tops and limbs of saw-timber trees, and cull portions of 
saw-timber trees. 
TABLE 28.—Stand, increment, and allowable and actual drain, in the Upper Peninsula 
SAW-TIMBER VOLUME (MILLION BOARD FEET) 
Species present | incre | able | Actual 
stand ment drain 
Softwoods: 
White: pine © === ---=—.- $13 24.7 21.1 28.0 
Red ping = 84 4.9 1.6 3.2 
Ai ey) hile, ee eee 55 4.9 1.2 9.5 
SDPErICes == 5 = 959 20. 3 22.2 65.3 
Balsamifir’ - 2) 25 322 3 569 11.1 10.2 26. 8 
Tamaraek: + 2- === "=~ -- 06 4.1 3.5 9.5 
Hemlock <2 =--==-—s-- 6, 362 49.8 168. 3 149.4 
OS ee ee 8, 898 119.8 228. 1 291.7 
Hardwoods: 
Sugar maple_--------__-- 6, 733 69.7 142.3 246. 4 
Mellow birch —--=-—----- 3, 725 47.5 105. 3 111.7 
Basswood____- 451 5.0 15. 2 22.8 
i) ae ee 437 7.0 9.9 26.5 
Beech.- == ~- 964 10.2 15.0 19.8 
Cake Pe ee 64 7.6 2.4 1.9 
PASTIONE oo 2 a a 551 36. 2 28. 3 14.5 
iPaper, birch -—_- == -2-=-=== 292 16.9 10.9 8.4 
Sati maples. 2. see 843 15.8 24.0 10.7 
Miscellaneous__ _-------- 326 7.8 7.5 4.0 
Potal ss — = ao es : 14, 386 223.7 360. 8 466.7 
All species + -= 23-5. = - 23, 284 343.5 588. 9 758. 4 
Be i 
TOTAL VOLUME (MILLION CUBIC FEET) 
Species 
Softwoods: 
Wihite piles. --5 == 2-5 
Red) pittes= =~ += «+= 
Jackipines 24 Skeets 2 
IHemlock#=s-s=---= 
Wihite-cedar= 22 ---"."=-3 
ROTA Bee ee 
Hardwoods: 
Sugar maple__-_--------- 
SVellowabirene == == 
Softimaples:=—-2_.---=+-: 
Miscellaneous-__-----_- = 
Total | Annual | Allow- Actual 
present incre- able = drain 
stand ment drain 
199 5.6 4.8 7.4 
33 1.6 .4 -9 
46 1.8 .3 4.6 
396 7.9 6.7 24, 2 
428 6.5 4.8 13.7 
42 21 1 2.6 
1, 664 13.1 37.7 39.0 
610 5. 2 4.5 15.5 
3, 418 | 43.8 60.3 107.9 
2, 077 25. 2 36.7 68.7 
1, 158 14.8 27.3 31.0 
140 1.9 3.9 6.3 
127 1.6 2.5 7.3 
288 2.6 3.7 5.8 
27 2.1 9 .8 
423 42.9 25. 0 8.5 
191 18.3 1252) 4.1 
399 4.8 6.2 5.1 
177 2.9 2.1 Ve 
5,007 | 117.1 120.5 139.3 
8, 425 160. 9 | 180. 8 247.2 
