FIRST TRANSITIONAL PERIOD UNDER SUSTAINED-YIELD PLAN 
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PUGET SOUND 
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1953 1963 1973 1993 2003 
YEARS 
1933 1943 1983 
Figure 39.—Past rates and assumed future rates of cutting compared with rates allowable under 
sustained-yield management 
their holdings in order tospread 
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| action | AVERAGE the chance of losses from fire 
| ANNUAL i 
poaro | ANNY Re ai aa 5 — ALLOWABLE AVERAGE | and other causes. Private lands 
FEET | ioos-a3) |withOUlSUSTAINERIVICID ANN VAL Comegs are irregularly intermingled 
: : - r with lands in different kinds of 
pes lie = public ownership. Moreover, 
neighboring owners are unlikely 
to fall into the same general 
category as to intent in owner- 
ship. Some are holding timber- 
land speculatively, intending to 
sell it to the highest bidder; some 
own logging equipment and 
plan to log for the open market 
or for wood-using industries 
with which they have contracts; 
and some operate mills and 
also do their own logging. 
Although it is estimated that 
the 12 largest hold 
nearly half the privately owned 
saw-timber area in the region, 
owners 
other owners number about 
32,000. To further complicate 
the situation, probably nowhere 
in the region is there a solid 
block of as much as 30,000 
acres owned by one company or 
individual unalienated by other 
ownership. Figure 40 shows the 
complexity of the ownership 
| ‘ he oe OREGON COAST =| pattern in a typical forested 
ale oa | ial county, Coos County, Oreg. 
a SSS po) ee poe aaa _| | In earlier days, particularly 
5 | in Washington and northern 
i | | Oregon, mills were set up on 
| ot= au the basis of operating only long 
enough for full depreciation 
(usually about 20 years), and 
supplies of standing timber 
were acquired with the assur- 
ance that if the mill owner’s 
supply of timber was exhausted 
before the plant was depre- 
ciated the deficiency could be 
made up from the open log 
market. At the same time, much timberland was 
purchased speculatively by buyers who anticipated 
that their timber would be needed by mills depend- 
of the publicly owned land is in scattered parcels. 
Few timber operators carry more than a 20- 
year supply; and many owners have scattered 
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