ALL 
OTHER 
SPECIES 
OWNERSHIP AND PULP 
"AVAILABILITY CLASS POL Creag SPECIES 
NATIONAL, 
FORESTS 
CLASS I 
CLASS I 505 
CLASS I 
OTHER 
OWNERSHIP 
RSL 
: SEREENE 
555 
CLASS I aetetatetetctetet 
A A OS 
cLASS I | ‘ 
oS 
GLASS I 
0 50 100 I9O: 0 SOx 0 50 
BILLIONS OF BOARD FEET 
Figure 15.—Economic availability of saw timber in the Douglas-fir region, by species and by ownership and availability classes 
California laurel is used in the manufacture of Puget Sound and Columbia River, have a great 
novelties. The other species are rarely used for influence on economic availability, as already 
any purpose. defined, and are chiefly responsible for the con- 
centration of cutting in large continuous areas in 
Economic Availability western Washington and northwestern Oregon. 
; Other factors being equal, timber within feasible 
A large part of the timber easily accessible to transportation distance of these waterways ranks 
tidewater has been cut. The large water bodies, highest in economic availability. Other factors 
