Saw-Timber Volume 



The region's saw-timber volume, in millions of 

 board feet, log scale, Scribner Decimal C rule, is 

 given in table 9 and figure 1 8 by species and owner- 

 ship and in table 10 by species and forest-survey 

 unit. Table 1 1 summarizes saw-timber volume 

 data on commercial forest land by broad type and 

 ownership class. 



Practically all of the total volume of 127.1 bil- 

 lion board feet is conifer. Eighteen conifer and 

 4 hardwood species were found of saw-timber 

 size and quantity. Approximately 87.7 billion 

 board feet occurs in Oregon and 39.4 billion 

 board feet in Washington. 



Ponderosa pine is the most widely distributed 

 conifer in the United States. In saw-timber vol- 

 ume it ranks second in the country, exceeded only 

 by Douglas-fir. In this region it is the preeminent 

 timber species. The wood is moderately soft, 

 light in weight, fine grained, and easily worked. 

 Its excellent properties make it valuable for inter- 



ior finish, sash and doors, and boxes. It is also 

 used for sheathing, small dimension, and siding. 

 Four-fifths of the 81.5 billion feet of ponderosa 

 pine in the region is in Oregon. Approximately 

 two-thirds of the total volume is publicly owned 

 or managed, a situation almost the reverse of that 

 in the Douglas-fir region where nearly two-thirds 

 of the Douglas-fir volume (/), the most important 

 species, is privately owned. 



Douglas-fir is second in point of volume. As al- 

 ready noted, this species fails to attain the size or 

 quality here that it does west of the Cascade Range, 

 and consequently it is restricted in use to common 

 boards, dimension, and small timbers, for which, 

 however, it answers satisfactorily. Only in a few 

 localities near low summits of the Cascade Range 

 do Douglas-fir trees produce the highly prized fine- 

 grained "yellow fir" typical of the west side of the 

 summit. Approximately three-fifths of the Douglas- 

 fir volume in this region is in Washington. 



Western larch volume totals 6.7 billion board 



Table 9. — Volume of timber, log scale, Scribner rule, in the ponderosa pine region, by species and ownership class, 1936 



[In million board feet— i. e., 000.000 omitted] 





Private 



State 



County 



Muni- 

 cipal 



Federally owned or managed 







Indian 



Re- 

 vested 

 land 

 grants 



Public domain 



Re- 

 served 



from 

 cutting 1 



National forest 





Species 



Avail- 

 able for 

 cutting 



Rail- 

 road 

 selec- 

 tion 

 pend- 

 ing 



Avail- 

 able for 

 cutting 



Reserved 



from 

 cutting 



Total 



Ponderosa pine _. .. 



27, 214. 4 



386.0 



70.0 



135.8 



4, 662. 8 



39.0 



.2 



120.3 



289.4 



85.5 



1, 856. 3 



84.9 



374.0 



38.5 



1, 132. 



127.6 



.1 



( 2 ) 



43.5 



2.3 



1, 616. 



5.8 



5.1 



21.9 



712.7 



1.4 



.1 



1.1 



6.4 



2.4 



53.6 



.9 



9.1 



5.8 



256.2 



41.9 



378.5 



7.8 



14, 948. 



179.8 



47.6 



33.0 



1, 999. 2 



13.3 



.8 



47.4 



7.4 



207.9 



616.1 



47.7 



.6 



115.2 



683.7 



96.0 



143.4 



34.8 



7.1 



.4 



61.0 



770.5 



.3 



.2 



3.4 



126.8 

 .4 



345.3 



32.0 



10.9 



262.0 



18.1 



1.9 



66.4 

 102.2 

 26.3 

 6.1 

 217.6 

 20.8 

 46.7 

 39.0 



168.3 



.5 



6.6 



30.8 



4.2 



.5 



5.1 



166.7 



22.1 



198.6 



.1 



35, 618. 5 



128.7 



568.3 



772.7 



10, 120. 5 



144.2 



23.7 



49.6 



783.5 



1, 948. 1 



3, 606. 4 

 752.7 



1, 629. 2 

 401.9 



4, 327. 5 

 1, 343. 3 



279.8 

 .6 



58.9 

 104.6 

 400.2 



12.0 



3.3 



. 7 



85.3 

 222.8 



92.2 

 123.1 

 276. 1 

 115.2 

 114.8 

 700.3 



81, 490. 5- 



Sugar pine _ _. 



736. 5- 



Western white pine _ 



( 2 ) 

 1.9 

 161.4 

 .3 



( 2 ) 

 7.4 



795.8 





1,115.4 





18, 518. 2 



Western redcedar 



228.7 



Alaska vellow-eedar 



30. 



California incense-cedar. _ _ _ 



.3 



.1 



1.9 



20.3 



3.9 



1.0 



.7 

 .7 



221. 6 



Western hemlock 



1, 244. 3 





2, 737. 5 



White flr and grand fir. 



Noble fir and Shasta red fir 



45.0 

 69.0 



15.4 

 3.3 



( 2 ) 



( 2 ) 



62.7 

 2.5 



6, 357. 6 

 1, 286. 3 



Pacific silver fir. 



.1 



.1 



62.5 



3.9 



.7 

 1.5 

 .8 



2, 506. 7 



Alpine fir 



698.2 



Western larch ... 



6, 687. 6 



Engelmann spruce... 



2, 365. 4 



Red alder 



.1 



Bigleaf maple. 

















( 2 ) 

 18.2 



.1 





( 2 ) 



Northern black Cottonwood 



.7 



.1 



( 2 ) 



14.3 





.5 



.7 





2.4 



80.4 



Aspen 



2.4 























Total 



36, 662. 6 



3 2, 741. 1 



631.4 



22. 1 



19, 058. 



361.7 



987.4 



1,196.0 



603.5 



62, 237. 1 



2, 592. 3 



127, 093. 2 



> Crater Lake National Park. 



2 Less than 50M board feet. 



3 Includes 0.3 million feet of ponderosa pine reserved from cutting. 



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