Considerably more than half the national-forest 

 timber available for cutting is ponderosa pine. This 

 timber is practically all economically available, 

 that is, operable from the standpoints both ol 

 accessibility and quality. 



Other Federal Ownership 



This group includes unappropriated public do- 

 main, Federal lands designated for selection as rail- 

 road grants but not yet patented, and reserved 

 lands. The latter category includes Crater Lake 

 National Park, national monuments, wildlife ref- 

 uges, and military reservations. 



The unappropriated public domain totals 1.2 

 million acres but more than half this acreage is in 

 juniper type and is chiefly valuable as grazing land. 

 The total saw-timber volume on public domain 

 lands is 1.0 billion board feet, most of which occurs 

 on scattered parcels on the fringe of the commercial 

 timber zone. 



Indian Ownership 



Approximately 2.6 million acres of forest land 

 and 19.1 billion board feet of timber is on Indian 

 land, a class of ownership that is a major factor in 

 the forest situation. Roughly two-thirds of the 

 Indian-owned timber in the country is in this 

 region. This timber compares favorably in quality 

 and value with privately owned timber and more 

 than three-quarters of it is ponderosa pine. 



The Indian timberland is managed under the 

 direction of technical foresters in much the same 

 manner as the national forests. Cutting on the 

 Klamath Reservation, the largest in the region, has 

 advanced rapidly, partly because of the necessity of 

 salvaging large quantities of timber which were 

 seriously jeopardized by pine beetle epidemics and 

 partly because of the accessibility of the timber to 

 an active market for stumpage. There has been 



very little cutting on the Warm Springs and 

 Yakima Reservations and only moderate cutting on 

 the Colville Reservation. 



State Oi 



ship 



The total volume of .State-owned saw timber is 

 2.7 billion board feet, practically all of which is in 

 Washington. A little more than half of this is 

 ponderosa pine. With the exception of one area in 

 Yakima County, State holdings are usually scat- 

 tered, an obstacle to effective management. How- 

 ever, Okanogan County, an extremely large county, 

 has a total volume of nearly 1 billion board feet of 

 State-owned timber, and Klickitat County, a small 

 county, has nearly 0.5 billion. Practically all of 

 this timber is on land granted by the Federal Gov- 

 ernment to finance education and internal improve- 

 ments; such timber is sold at public auction in small 

 parcels. 



County and Municipal Ownership 



Although the counties owned 0.25 million acres of 

 forest land in 1936, the volume of the saw-timber 

 stand was but 631 million board feet. Generally 

 speaking, these forest lands rank low in timber pro- 

 ductivity. They occur in scattered parcels too 

 small to qualify as independent operating units and 

 must be integrated with adjoining properties for 

 efficient management. No counties have taken 

 positive steps to manage their forest lands; instead 

 a policy of disposal and attempted restoration of 

 this land to tax rolls has been followed. Obviously, 

 since these lands came into possession of the counties 

 through tax forfeiture, such policies cannot be 

 successful. 



Municipally owned forest land consists of a few 

 small watersheds and is not extensive enough to be 

 of any regional significance. 



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