the national forests. The stands are usually mixed. 
White fir second growth (type 30) occurs only in 
small scattered patches. 
OTHER SMALL SECOND-GROWTH TYPES 
Second-growth “‘cedar’”’ (type 19) usually occurs 
in mixture with Douglas-fir and western hemlock, 
and seldom occurs in sufficient proportion to be a 
type. The ponderosa pine second-growth types 
(21 and 22) are concentrated in the Rogue River 
unit and are of considerable importance there. 
Small white fir (28) is confined to the Columbia 
River units. 
Deforested Lands 
More than a tenth of the total forest-land area 
of the region has been deforested by fire alone or by 
fire following logging and is now nonproductive. 
NONRESTOCKED CUT-OVERS 
Nonrestocked lands cut over before 1920 (type 35) 
constitute one of the most acute land-use problems 
in the region. They total 666,000 acres, or about 
21 percent of the total area cut over prior to 1920. 
Approximately 79 percent of the acreage of this 
type is in western Washington, concentrated in the 
vicinity of Puget Sound, Grays Harbor, and the 
Columbia River. Most of it is within 15 miles of 
one or another of the industrial centers, Seattle, 
Tacoma, Everett, Portland, and Aberdeen. It 
formerly supported fine stands of virgin timber, 
and is very accessible. The present cover consists 
of shrubs and herbs with a few broadleaf trees and 
an occasional conifer. Much of the area is covered 
with bracken. Part of it is grazed, but too inter- 
mittently to be considered pasture land. The 
present condition of this land is not the result of 
logging alone; most of it, since being cut over, has 
been burned several times. 
In 1934 about 87 percent of this land was private, 
4 percent county-owned, and 4 percent State- 
owned. (See table 2.) Since then a considerable 
acreage has been forfeited to the counties for un- 
paid taxes, and a much larger acreage has become 
tax delinquent. Instability of ownership adds to 
the problem that this land presents, and in many 
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Ficure 10.—Clear-cut area in western Oregon that restocked satisfactorily with Douglas-fir about 10 years ago, as a result of adequate seed 
1 supply and fire protection. Similar stands were found on more than a million acres of cut-over land in the region. 
