It should be remembered that uiuler present economic 

 cr)n(litions the outlook is not so influenced by the total 

 quantity of saw timber as by the volume of western white 

 pine saw timber (fig. 13). Ot course, this western white 

 pine dominance may be changed at any time by future 

 events, but at the present time this species occupies the 

 center of the stage. In figure 13 it is shown that 55 percent 

 ot the remaining western white pine saw timber is located 

 in the Clearwater district, and practically none in the 

 Winchester and Idaho County districts. 



TABr.E 2. Area of alt forest land, commercial forest, and remaining 

 saw-limber stands in commercial area h\ districts. 



District 



Samipoint 



C'oour d'Alenc-St. Joe 



Cloarwarcr 



Winchostcr 



Idaho County 



All distrii-ts 



Toliil 

 forest 

 area 



1,000 acres 

 1, 799. 

 2.714.9 

 1, 91.5. 4 

 191.7 

 3, 708. 8 



10. 329. S 



('onuiHTcial forest 

 area 



1,000 acres 

 1.491.6 

 2. 129. 1 

 1.541.7 

 181.6 

 1. 223. 4 



fi. 8fi7. 4 



Percent 

 83 

 89 

 80 

 95 

 33 



Saw-timber stands 

 remaining in com- 

 mercial area 



1,000 acres 

 403. 5 

 650.8 

 793.6 

 85.7 

 672.2 



2. 605. 8 



Percent 

 27 

 27 

 51 

 47 

 55 



38 



Other Values 



In classifying torest land purely on the basis ot timber- 

 production, there is danger ot overlooking other important 

 torest functions ot very considerable it nonassessable value. 



LOCflTIOn OF THE SflUU TimBEP. 



M 



SANDPOINT DISTRICT 



4Ai 



COEUR D'ALENE-ST JOE DISTRICT 



AUIM 



i 



CLEARWATER DISTRICT 



h 



WINCHESTER DISTRICT 



mm 



WHITE 

 PINE 



OTHE 

 SPECIES 



4 



"4 



IDAHO COUNTY DISTRICT 



EACH TREE REPRESENTS I BILLION BOARD FEET (LogScole) 



l''i<iiiUK l.V Most important is the concentration of .>'.■>' percent of the 

 western white pine in the Cleitrwiler Jislrid. 



flRERS CMIQPLY VPLURBLE 



FORUJRTER^HEDPROTECTIOn 



flnD RECRERTIOn 



FlciRE 14. — Approximately one-third of the northern Idaho forest area is 

 noncommercial in terms of timhet pro,luction. 



This is true, for example, of watershed protection, which 

 cannot be evaluated realistically on a dollars-and-cents 

 basis ami yet may conserve \aliies outweighing commer- 

 cial timber returns. Watershed values certainly lend a 

 comp.ir.itivelv high worth to the 3.4 million acres of forest 

 land having no present or [H>tential value for timK-r 

 production (fig. 14). 



Water is a most important resource in the great Colum- 

 bia Basin area, where the Columbia River and its tribu- 

 taries are of primary importance to local agriculture and 

 industry. Ihc principal jHissibilities for successful agri- 

 cultural expansion in this great basin are on the 2\ mill.on 

 acres which it seems feasible to irrigate in Idaho. Wash 

 ington, aiui Oregon. Ihe wartime and alter war in- 

 dustrial expansion likewise will largely dej'vend ujx^n the 

 great amount of jH>wer to be devclo^K\i by the Grand 

 Coulee anii Bonneville Dams. Nearly a tenth of the 



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