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States. Each year sees further inroads on this last stand of old- 

 growth timber. The three Pacific Coast States furnished about 40 

 percent of the country's total lumber production in 1942. 



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Figure 11. — A forest of Douglas-fir. 



This species reaches its greatest development in the Pacific northwest, although 

 it is found to a large extent also in the Rocky Mountain region. 



The two most important commercial species of the Pacific coast re- 

 gion are Douglas-fir and redwood. In the amount of lumber produced 

 in the United States Douglas-fir (fig. 11) ranks second only to southern 



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