ent on the open log mar- 
ket. Many mills in the re- 
gion have no raw material 
of their own to guaran- 
tee future production. Of 
the three major lumber- 
manufacturing districts, 
Grays Harbor district has 
20 percent of its installed 
mill capacity dependent 
on the open log market 
for raw material, Puget 
Sound district 50 percent, 
and Columbia River dis- 
trict 60 percent. 
Few private owners are 
doing much to block up 
their forest-land proper- 
ties for continuous timber 
production. ‘True, some 
owners have continued to 
hold timberland after 
the merchantable timber 
has been cut, but usually 
for other reasons than 
growing and _ harvesting 
a second crop of timber. 
The trends in tax delin- 
quency and in forfeiture 
of forest land to the coun- 
ties indicate that no great 
area of recently cut-over 
land will remain in private 
ownership even so long as 
20 years. Since the aver- 
age private forest property 
in this region contains a 
much greater area of old- 
growth timber than of 
second-growth timber, it 
would be difficult for 
many owners to put a 
sustained-yield plan into 
practice unless they 
acquired young and mid- 
dle-aged timber to bridge 
the gap between the 
last of their old growth 
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