TaBLe 9.—Cubic volume of timber,! in the Douglas-fir region, by species and ownership class 
{In millions of cubie feet—i. e. 000,000 omitted] 
| 
| | Federally owned or managed 
| State 7 TT = 
aay v Mu- National forest 
Species Private County nicipal Revested|— . i; Total 
ue Indian land | snet State | Other 
Avail- Re- grants Avail- | Re- 
able | served able served | Selec- 
| | tion 
eave sate - | ee Les: 
Douglas-fir eee ties ees se ae ea 39, 503.4 |1, 990.8 33.9 843. 2 142.8 133. 9 8, 396.4 | 24, 789. 4 662.3 3:7 692. 4 77, 192. 2 
Sit Kars price Sasa ee es te as Ree 1,813.1 | 331.2 2.5 35.5 5.1 99. 1 9.5 | 295. 2 11:5 eal 30.6 2, 633. 4 
Engelmann spruce__-------------------- 1H} ew toeer | (OVE a eee ae ABA toe 0254S es oa Se 54.1 
iWesternehemilockseasense saaee ee neees 12, 416.1 |1, 696.6 6.8 228. 0 94.0 350. 5 359.9 | 8,406 8 | 463. 6 4.9 322.3 24. 349. 5 
Mountain hemlock ---_-_-_-_---------_- 50. 5 it | Boeke 3 FO eee (2) 1,171.4 | 72.9 3 11 1,311.4 
Westerniredcedar, live_--=2--2.2+_- 2-2: 3, 189. 0 533. 1 2.4 55. 4 23. 2 256. 6 144.7 1,558.7 | 114.8 | 2.9 41.7 5, 922. 5 
Alaska yellow-cedar, live.--_-_---_____- 22.2 1.3 gies Belt) oi : 99.6 | 3.5 68 iis 141 141.1 
California incense-cedar, live______--___- 213. 3 1.0 (2) 10. 2 .4 SP 127.1 135.9 | (2) 5.7 493.8 
Port Orford white-cedar: | 
ive etc ee ae sea 182. 1 3.2 ae 2.2 1 Bel 42.6 | 40.7) () 1.9 
ID YC eee ae a es ea en eA a5 [eae lee oct (2) erst Para he .4 | aki il lee hey | Base _| 
Other dead ‘‘cedar’’___-----.------------ SON3H| 250i eee ee 1.0 | .5| 42.4 2.1 6307 |< a5 5 ah 
Pond erosaip ine ee eeee eee eee ee 552.0 | 4.1] (© 2.9 2.4 (2) 446.0 | 262.7 1 36.8 | 
Sugar, pine saeeseeeetaeas seem seeesiee oe 219.1 22) ©) 12.5 | 4] @ 206.9] 261.6] (2) |____- 8.2 
Western white (and whitebark) pine____ WoMde | peeee se] =F =| 3.6 5.6 4.3 528. 6 fat | al 17.0 | 
odgepolespinese sete a 37/0} ee LAO. 3 1.3} () (2) 25 ilanD8BuS 4) P8rON 17 
White fir and grand fir---------------_- 648.6 | 25.0 e225 | 1.3 Qn 326.2 | 867.5] 13.6 Bl 11.4 
Noble fir and Shasta red fir________- fee 441.3 35.7 | a2 3.4 11.9 (2) SONC M25 tau 93.5 seis 26.4 | 
iPacificisilvertfir’= = 2 S2525 = 2s as 1,735.0 | 640.1 | 2.2 27.0} 56.1 91.6 1.5 | 4,167.8 | 244.1 2.8 | 185.2 | 
FAD ine fire seater eee ree ae eats 8.1) OBIE a 2 | a2 Be i| 39. 5 | 9.4 () 1.8 | 
Western larch___ NG a | ones | | calla | eset : 45.8 | 4.0 | aul 
Redwood. _____- Balle Bese peal ane eer aes A BUD ental LP ae 
BY. With oe one 4.8 palin (2) =| .2 (2) lla 1.6 be | Bo til eee wl 
Redia ld ers seuunn so nentes stasen cine ol 917.5] 34.2 | RAG ero3eG.[o-ord1n |) kOdod 39.1 285.1 29] (© 22.3 | 
Northern black cottonwood-_---_-__--- ee 169. 6 | 2.8 (2) 3.0 L0u) 2.9 | 1.2 apy Lo 1 i eee 1.2 
Oregon white oak____-_.__.---_---.---_- 161. 4 ee) 4.7 | 43:1 5 6.3 (Geffen sp ea egg 4.9 | 
California black oak____-_----._---_--_- 43.3 BO ulesetens 4.0 le) 3.5 PUTIN ahs a (hoa oS 4.6 | 
Manoa kere ee aoe Sees ee me eee 33. 3 -5 | aul 1 Ut apa .4 2.9 95. 4 |--------]-------- 4.1 | 
C@anyoniliveoaks= ae et AG} ‘(Qo sa Ca) | eee = et | ee 2 .8 | Bes [idee (3) |] 
Bigleaf maple are 348.2] 11.7 sl 9.1 1.5 4.5 31.9 43.7 10] @ 3.5 
BANS Fa ei Ee hele "eh hi be re Sr eae mnae 46.1 3 | (?) .4 eal eal 9 350% Shee ear |Poerees act 51.8 
Western and northwestern paper birch __ Prat ie jl byeeaeaeas pH Veena ng A [aa ed Sil Miele | Rc ae Bal 2.9 
Californialaurelaea tele eae 19.1 1.7 (?) nti) | (2) yal 4.6 | 4.6 |- Ey lente ey :3 30.9 
Madrone_____ See eae os aie eae ae oe 65.4 | 8 (2) 3.6 | 2] a2, 33.5 | 1 OR) bee, De ees al sea 4.1 150. 3 
Ghinquapines2 ed oe 14.9 | 6d|aewtue te tO) () 10.3 | Bid) |G ween en (Eee .2 35. 0 
PTR Ot eh eae areas ree Spain nie 63, 031. 2 l5, 372.9 49.3 |1, 357.7 | 348. 6 i1, 016. 2 | 10, 243.9 | 44, 832.6 |1, 730.8 15.7 /1, 454.3 | 129, 453. 2 
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) Including all sound wood in stems of all living trees and all standing dead trees 5.1 inches d. b. h. and larger from stump to 4-inch tip inside bark, 
excluding bark and limb wood. 
2 Less than 50,000 cubic feet. 
ating unit is restricted to the maximum specified 
in the working plan. Sales contracts and adminis- 
trative measures provide for adequate pretection 
of existing growing stock and for regeneration, thus 
assuring a perpetual supply that should promote 
stability of manufacturing plants and permanence 
of communities. 
A policy of conservative disposal and a lack of 
market demands have tended to keep actual cutting 
far below the indicated sustained-yield capacity on 
most of the national forests of the region. In no 
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year of the history of these national forests has the 
total quantity of timber cut from them equalled the 
total permitted by the working plans. Owing to 
the inaccessibility of some of the national-forest 
timber, it may be a long time before the cut reaches 
the quantity permissible; certainly, however, as the 
supply of private timber lessens there will be more 
demand for logging of national-forest timber. 
The total area of the national forests in this 
region is a little over 10 million acres, of which 94 
percent is forest land. Of the total forest land, 6 
