50 



TIMBER RESOURCES FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE 



T 





includes Coastal Alaska 



Figure 22 



Nearly Half the Sawtimber Cut Comes From 

 the West 



In 1962, about 22.5 billion board-feet of saw- 

 timber was cut in the West, excluding Coastal 

 Alaska, or about 46 percent of the national total. 

 In terms of growing stock, the South produced 

 close to halt of the total, the West produced 

 about one-third (table 32). 



It is also significant that between 1944 and 



1952 the West was providing an increasing pro- 

 portion of the total cut (table 33). Although 

 there was no significant difference in the total cut 

 of sawtimber between the two years, the sawtimber 

 cut in the West rose 20 percent, reflecting mainly 

 an increase in California where cut more than 

 doubled in the interim. In contrast, the saw- 

 timber cut of eastern softwoods dropped 17 per- 

 cent and eastern hardwoods 13 percent between 



