Table 12. — .\>/ volume of all growing stock, sawtimber, and poletimber on commercial forest land, hy ownership class and species group, 



Minnesota, 1953 



Ownership class 



All growing sto( 



k 





Sawtimber 







Poletimber 





Total 



Softwoods 



Hardwoods 



Total 



Softwoods 



Hardwoods 



Total 



Softwoods 



Hardwoods 



Federally owned or managed: 



National forest _. ._ 



Million 



cu.ft. 



1,367 



348 



16 



38 



Million 



CU.Jl. 



812 



156 



12 



7 



Million 

 cu. ft. 



555 



192 



4 



31 



Million 



bd.-ft. 



2,433 



489 



23 



66 



Million 



bd.-ft. 



1,727 



249 



19 



12 



Million 

 bd.-ft. 



706 



240 



4 



54 



Thousand 



cords 



10,300 



3,000 



130 



300 



Thovsand 



cords 



5,300 



1,260 



90 



60 



Thousand 

 cords 

 5,000 





1,740 



Bureau of Land Management 



Other.. .- - -- 



40 

 240 







Total 



1,769 

 1,213 

 1,070 



987 

 723 

 396 



782 

 490 

 674 



3,011 

 1,688 

 1,391 



2,007 



1,024 



667 



1,004 

 664 

 724 



13,730 

 10,440 

 9,540 



6,710 

 6,130 

 3,080 



7,020 



State 



4,310 



County or municipal 



6,460 







Private: 



1,992 

 1,191 



251 

 472 



1,741 

 719 



4,485 

 1,963 



439 

 902 



4,046 

 1,061 



12,920 

 9,480 



1,910 

 3,360 



11,010 



Industrial and other 



6,120 



Total 



3,183 



723 



2,460 



6,448 



1,341 



5,107 



22,400 



5,270 



17,130 







All ownerships 



7,235 



2,829 



4,406 



12,538 



5,039 



7,499 



56,110 



21,190 



34,920 



Table 13. — Ownership 



of pulpwood volume, Minnesota, 1953 







Total State 



.\11 grow 



ng stock 



Ownership class 



Softwoods ' 



Hardwoods 2 



Federally owned or managed: 

 National forest.- 



Thousand 



cords 



11,670 



2,610 



290 



Thousand 



cords 



7,490 



1,230 



160 



Thousand 

 cords 



4,180 



Indian 



1,380 



Other Federal _ 



130 









Total 



14,570 

 9,860 

 8,070 



8,880 

 6,590 



3,170 



5,690 



State 



3,270 



County and municipal 



— 



4,900 



Private: 



Farm 



6,240 

 8,200 



1,870 

 3,780 



4,370 



Industrial and other 



4,420 









Total 



14,440 



5,650 



8,790 









All ownerships 



46,940 



24,290 



22,650 



' Includes total merchantable volume of jack pine, black spruce, white spruce, 

 and balsam fir, expressed in standard cords. 

 • .\spen only. 



Indian forest lands and certain other federally con- 

 trolled lands aggregating 860,000 acres have 402 mil- 

 lion cubic feet of growing stock, or an average of 467 

 cubic feet per acre (about 5.8 cords). They support 

 a smaller proportion of softwoods than the national 

 forests. Most of the areas are in fairly good condition 

 for management, however. 



State Controls Valuable Pulpwood Stands 



The State with 3,484,000 acres of forest land has a 

 volume of 1,213 million cubic feet cf growing stock 



or an average of 348 cubic feet or 4.4 cords per acre. 

 It has relatively little sawtimber — less than 500 board- 

 feet per acre average — but it has 6.6 million cords of 

 valuable softwood pulp tiinber, mainly spruce and 

 balsam fir. 



Counties Control Significant Volumes 



The recent survey disclosed that the counties had 

 larger and more valuable timber stands than was 

 previously realized (fig. 18). On a total area of 3,61 9,- 

 000 acres, they have 1,070 million cubic feet. This 

 gives an average of 29(3 cubic feet (3.7 cords) per acre, 

 even though most of the lands were cut over just 

 before coming under county control. 



County lands have less softwood volume than Fed- 

 eral or State forests and have a comparatively low 

 saw-log volume. However, they do have 3.2 million 

 cords of softwood pulpwood and 4.9 million cords of 

 aspen pulpwood, and they have extensive acreages of 

 young timber suitable for management. 



Farm Woods Are Primarily Hardwood 



Some 1,992 million cubic feet of timber is growing 

 on 4,881,000 acres of farm woods — an average stand, 

 of 408 cubic feet (5.1 cords) per acre (fig. 19). Seven- 

 eighths of this volume is hardwood. Sawtimber vol- 

 ume (90 percent hardwood) averages 920 board-feet 

 per acre, which is higher than for any other owner 

 group. Pulpwood volume averages 1.3 cords per 

 acre and is mostly aspen. 



Minnesota's Forest Resources 



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