lock, and Engelmann spruce. This type occurs 
commonly at the higher elevations of the Cascade 
Range and Olympic Mountains and occasionally 
at the extreme elevations of the Coast Range. 
Because of its comparative inaccessibility and the 
unsuitability of its constituent species for sawlogs, 
it has little present commercial value and practi- 
cally no logging is taking place in it. Future 
exploitation will probably be almost exclusively 
for pulpwood. 
The larger Sitka spruce type (11) occurs only in a 
coastal belt rarely more than 10 miles wide. The 
common associates are western hemlock, western 
redcedar, and Douglas-fir. Although its acreage is 
relatively small, this type has been logged exten- 
sively for sawlogs and pulpwood. During the 
World War much of the type 11 area was partially 
logged for airplane spruce. 
White fir (type 29) occurs on a small area only. 
More than three-quarters of the area is in southern 
Oregon. The remainder is principally in stream 
bottoms in small patches rarely exceeding 80 
acres. Large white fir is occasionally cut for pulp- 
wood by farmers and woodcutters. 
Conifer Types Less Than Sawlog Size 
Immature stands consisting chiefly of trees below 
sawlog size cover 7 million acres. The continued 
growth of these stands and their protection against 
fire and premature cutting are most essential for 
the future saw-timber supply. Table 4 and figure 
9 show their area, by age and stocking. 
TABLE 4.—Area of certain immature conifer forest types in the Douglas-fir region, by age class and degree of stocking, 1933 
| ; | | 
Good | Medium) Poor | Allstock- 
Type and age class (years) stocking stocking| stocking] ings 
| 
Douglas fir, small second 
growth: 1,000 acres|1,000 acres|1,000 acres|1,000 acres 
D0) se ens Pe eae 60.9 88.7 24.6 174. 2 
BO ee ee en) eee 348.9 385. 2 72.8 806.9 
AQ Verne re a ae eA 395. 4 424.6 85.4 905.4 
50 ete eee 277.3 273.5 63. 2 | 614.0 
6022s Saas e  e 206. 4 312.4 58. 4 577.2 
7(U epee Sac. Pee See a 190. 6 198.8 24.8 414. 2 || 
43.0 57.4 20.5 120.9 
24.8 18.8 12 44.8 || 
10.1 19.1 5.4 34.6 || 
1, 557.4 | 1,778.5 356.3 | 3,692.2 || 
lings: 
392. 2 586. 7 363. 5 1, 342, 4 || 
291.2 283.8 63. 4 638. 4 
81.1 41.1 5.3 127.5 
Dez, AT | Sages 1.8 
23 Hi |f Satu 4 
766. 5 911.8 | 432.2 2,110.5 
| | 
1.0 Dish |powee as 3.3 | 
5.1 5.2 3 10.6 |, 
7.6 5.3 Ao} 1351} 
-5 3 sek 9 
6.1 5.9 1.3 13.3 
WE wy i Sud So soe ees 2c ots eal eee @) 12) 2 
9 1.3 3.2 5.4 || 
=e gel ep na Re .3 | 
Seeds BA ood 5 (1) 15 
PAL 21.1 5.3 47.6 
lings: 
LO ee 2 ae ae eee ee 6 27 3 7.1 || 
20 en + ate 5 as nets Sd 6 3.4 1 4.1 
SOU ee Se Se 1 aff) | ee eee .8 | 
Totals = ease eee ad 1.3 6.8 | 3.9 | 12.0 
1 Less than 50 acres. 
2 780 acres of type 21 in Pierce County, Wash., is 
DD, 
| F | aq 
Type and age class (years) es | Srenene aes Peas 
Western hemlock, small: 1,000 acres|1,009 acres|1,009 acres|1,000 acres 
14.3 9.3 .3 23.9 
60. 4 44.0 4.3 108. 7 
51.2 28.3 2.3 81.8 
16.5 11.6 9 29.0 
15.0 16.8 2.8 34.6 
21. 2 13.9 5.2 40.3 
5.5 7.2 3.1 15.8 
8 albal .2 201: 
5.7 23.1 1.0 29.8 
190. 6 155. 3 20.1 | 366. 0 
Western hemlock, seedlings and | 
saplings: P 
128. 6 57.7 21.2 207.5 
15.7 10.4 7 26.8 
5.0 Lal 2 Ses 6.1 
1.3 344 | ek aoe 1.7 
4 2 anes .6 
(77 a | bere 4 .4 
() 23 |e ee 52 
151.0 70.0 22.3 243.3 
“Cedar,’’ small: 
JOG. 222 2 ee eas 2.7 2.6 6.1 11.4 
20__ 9 BY 8 5.4 
.8 A) .2 1.5 
3 -9 a2, 3.4 
6 .0 6 2.2 
.3 .3 
() 
.3 
1.3 
25.8 
oul 
.5 
6.5 
7.6 
omitted from this table, as it was classified as uneven-aged, 
