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c o./,u Ouliuiii puipiiiiuu Occhi, .../..ri< .//I Uuul Lukci /itigJitfi ul Cicihu Muiuii. .Mil, II. Jullt luLiiitil, tilt sliip cuiiies belweetx 

 1,500 and 7,800 cords. The cargo is transported across Lake Superior to Munising, Mich., where it is unloaded and shipped by rail to Michigan 

 and Wisconsin pulp and paper companies. 



Private Lands Supply Three-fifths of Timber 



Privately owned forest lands that have but 44 per- 

 cent of the forest area and standing timber neverthe- 

 less supplied 64 percent of the timber cut in 1953. 

 They produced about two-thirds of the aspen, and all 

 but 4 percent of the mixed hardwoods cut that year 

 (fig. 38 and table 25). 



Private lands yielded about 63 percent of the logs 

 and bolts for sawmills and 53 percent of the pulpwood. 

 They produced most of the fuelwood, fence posts, 

 and veneer logs. On the other hand, they furnished 

 only a small proportion of the utility poles, piling, 

 and mine timbers (fig. 39). 



Federal lands contributed about 16 percent of the 

 1953 cut, State lands 12 percent, and county lands 8 

 percent. The Chippewa and Superior National 



Minnesota's Forest Resources 



Table 25. — limber cut Jrom growing slock, by otrnerships, Minne- 

 sota, 1953 



Species 



All 

 owner- 

 ships 



Federal 



State 



County 



Private 



Softwoods : 



White and red pine 



Jack pine . 



Thou- 

 sand 

 cu. ft. 

 9,838 

 25,326 

 23,617 

 13,375 

 5,810 



Thou- 

 sand 

 cu. ft. 

 3,545 

 7,100- 

 4,475 

 1,300 

 560 



Thou- 

 sand 

 cu. ft. 

 1,325 

 3,000 

 6,030 

 2,400 

 1,720 



Thou- 

 sand 

 cu. ft. 



135 

 2,100 

 1,330 

 4,315 



785 



Thou- 

 sand 

 cu. ft. 

 4.833 

 13.126 





11.782 



Balsam fir _ - _ - 



5,360 





2.745 







Total 



77,966 



16,980 



14,475 



8,665 



37,846 







Hardwoods; 



Aspen 



43,949 

 32,237 



6,450 

 580 



4,475 

 380 



2.955 

 315 



30,069 





30.962 







Total - 



76,186 



7,030 



4,855 



3,270 



61,031 







All species 



154,152 



24,010 



19.330 



11,935 



98,877 



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