All Regions in the Nation are expected to 

 contribute to the supply of timber for the grow- 

 ing national market. The Western States have 

 27 percent of the Nation's commercial forests 

 in terms of acreage, but produce approximately 

 72 percent of sawtimber volume, and have 

 provided about 67 percent of the total annual 

 softwood sawtimber harvested. The South and 

 Southeastern United States have produced more 

 timber products than any other part of the 

 Nation in the past 100 years and show promise 

 as future suppliers of timber. More than one- 

 third of the Nation's commercial forest land 

 and nearly 50 percent of the total timber growth 

 is in the Southern and Southeastern States. 



The Northeastern States produce primarily 

 hardwoods. These States contain approximately 

 33 percent of the Nation's commercial forest 

 acreage and 20 percent of the growing timber 

 stock, and produce about 12 percent of the har- 

 vested sawtimber. The Plains States contain 

 some timberland, largely in Oklahoma and 

 Texas, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and 



along stream bottoms throughout the Great 

 Plains areas. 



Output targets were not developed on a re- 

 gional basis. Timber is bought and sold in a 

 national market system. To prepare regional 

 output targets it would be necessary to relate 

 national demand to regional supply capabilities, 

 production and transportation costs, and antici- 

 pated prices of stumpage and finished products. 



This analysis considers the production of 

 wood growth at a constant intensity of manage- 

 ment. This evaluation, therefore, does not 

 permit considering fully the potential to vary 

 timber growth and harvest through specific 

 practices aimed at the forest resource. In addi- 

 tion, this study measures timber output in 

 terms of growth rather than in terms of volume 

 harvested. Thus, the range management strat- 

 egy or combination of strategies that would 

 produce wood growth at approximate current 

 levels of national need, or that does not severely 

 limit wood growth is regarded as satisfactory 

 (fig. 31). 



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i^lGUKE 31, — Cattle and timber production are compatible under proper management. 



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