GENERALIZED 
FOREST TYPE ee 
SAW TIMBER 
SEGOND 
GROWTH 
NON- 
COMMERCIAL 
NONRESTOCKED 
CUT-OVERS 
AND BURNS 
NATIONAL 
FORESTS 
REGENT 
CGUT-OVERS 
HARDWOOD 
bo 
Nonforest Land 
The ‘‘agricultural land” category takes in culti- 
vated fields and orchards and also stump pasture, 
included in operating farm units, on which oper- 
ators are making definite efforts to improve the 
forage by clearing, seeding, fencing, or other 
measures (fig. 6). It does not include the large 
acreage of cut-over land that is used as free range 
This land is grazed casu- 
Usually 
no attempt is made to convert it to permanent 
by neighboring farmers. 
ally and, in many instances, in trespass. 
(e) 
ine) 
BS 
MILLIONS OF ACRES 
Ficure 5.—Areas of generalized forest types in western Washington and western Oregon, by ownership class. 
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pasture. It is not an uncommon practice to burn 
this type of land in an attempt to improve the 
grazing. Most of the 444 million acres classed as 
agricultural was orginally forested and is capable of 
again growing forests if not devoted to other use. 
The ‘‘nonforest land other than agricultural’’ is 
chiefly land that will not support tree growth, 
because of soil, climate, or topography. It includes 
sand beaches, rock barrens, swamps, mountain 
meadows, roads, and urban and industrial sites. 
Of the 115 million acres in this class more than two- 
thirds is in Washington, where the Cascade Range 
