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Figure 34. — A7nt/ 0/ timber culjurjuei in 1933. Fuelwood in foreground is made up almost entirely oj material cut from cull trees, tops, limbwood, 

 etc. Only about one-third oj the fuelwood produced in Minnesota each year is cut from merchantable timber. The steady decline in use of fuelwood 

 through mmt sections of the State results in more low-grade material being left in woods. 



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L 



GROWING 

 STOCK. 



Cubic 

 feet 



154,152,000 



CULL TREES 

 AND LIMBWOODI) 



DEAD TREES l 



SAPLINGS 



OTHER J 



TOTAI 



--59,251,000 



.213,403,000 



Figure 35. — Kinds of timber cut in Minnesota, 1953. 



Forests yielded nearly 200,000 cords of cordwood 

 material and 33 million board-feet of saw logs, about 

 75 percent of all timber cut from Federal lands. The 

 yield from Indian lands amounted to 23 percent, Fish 

 and Wildlife Service lands 2 percent. 



Cutting on national-forest lands has increased 

 substantially as management plans have been com- 

 pleted and as a system of access roads has been initi- 

 ated to open up remote timber stands. On State and 

 county forest lands cutting also has increased, especi- 

 ally in small operations where recent inventories have 

 shown a surplus of timber over growing stock needs. 

 In spite of these increases on public lands, the heaviest 

 impact of cutting still falls upon the privately owned 

 .lands. 



Accessible Areas Cut Most Heavily 



About 79 percent of all timber (growing stock) cut 

 and 73 percent of the sawtimber cut in 19.S3 came 

 from the northeastern division (fig. 40 and table 26). 

 Considering pulpwood species alone, an c\cn larger 

 share was cut in the northeast. 



Minnesota's Forest Resources 



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