I'li-LRE 28. — Beiause of market J actors the lumber inJujtry lias been joneJ to concentrate upon v:hite 



.As they stand, these figures do not 

 directly compare with the inventory 

 estimates which have been developed 

 through the text so far. They represent 

 the total cut from green trees and dead 

 trees, from saw-timber trees and smaller 

 trees. Of the 371/XXj cords of fuel 

 wood, approximately 15.3,(^XK) cords has 

 been cut trom dead timber and 20,(XK) 

 cords from slabs. .Also, 80(J,fKX) out of 

 the 2 million fence posts are estimated 

 to have come from dead timber. This 

 dead-cut material represents a salvage 

 of trees killed by fire and other causes. 

 The other products are largely green- 

 cut; however, of the green-cut products, 

 a small portion ot the hewed ties, fuel 

 wood, fence posts, and mine timbers is 

 derived from trees of less than saw- 

 timber size. 



Since the scope of this report must be 

 limited to the major aspects of the forest 

 situation, only the cutting drain from 

 live saw-timber-size trees will be ana- 

 lyzed here (tig. 27). The total cutting 

 drain in cubic feet is shown in the 

 appendix. 



In discussing the value range of the 

 forest resource, the importance ot sp^ecies 

 composition has been emphasized. With 

 this in mind, the cutting drain by species, 

 as shown in table 6, is particularly sig- 

 nificant. Ot the saw timber on all 

 commercial forest land 25 percent is 

 western white pine, whereas 5<i percent 

 of the cut of all saw-timber proilucts is 

 western white pine. .As has been mcn- 



pine of which there is 10 billion board feet remaining in stands such as this and younger. This tioned before and will be repeated, this 



heavy stand of white pine is probably more than MX) years old. 

 Tabi.f. 6. — .Iverage annual cutting drain from green saw limber b\ species 



."Species 



Logs (or 

 lumber 



Ollioi 

 pro<lucts 



Total 



\\ c.stom whiti' pino 



I'oiuicro'in pino 



A/ board feet 



6»,3O0 

 02. 400 



Xf board feet 



•J6,T00 

 I1&.I00 



.\/ board feet 

 *i.200 



«>(lu'r siMcii'.s .. 



177., WO 



•r,)i!»i 



1S2, ti<MI 



1 11 VKl 



i;:M. 4(X) 



1 Siril'ii' r Idi; svnlr. 



4STS)7ir 43- - -5 









lopsided concentration upon western 

 white pine is one of the major elements ot the forest 

 problem (tig. 28). 



The lumber industry is slowly strangling, because of the 

 necessity of limiting its cut to such a small projxirtion ot 

 the resource. This situation has become more serious in 

 the last 15 years. Which way the scales swing in the 

 future will depend on economic developments. Some ot 

 the items having influence upon the trends will be dis 

 cussed in the chapter on economic factors. 



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