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since the market would be overstocked without reason, the lumber 

 trade demoralized, and the amount of standing timber available in 

 the future, when the need for it will be real, greatly lessened. 



It should not be implied from this that the timber on the Crater 

 Forest will not be disposed of, even at present, where there is need 

 for it. One large sale for 100.000,000 feet is now in progress in the 

 yellow-pine type on the east side of the Forest, in the Klamath Lake 

 country. An informal application for another sale of approximately 

 100,000,000 feet on the west side of the Cascades, contingent upon the 

 extension of the Medford-Butte Falls Railroad, has been received, 

 and the sale will probably be made when the road is opened. 



MANAGEMENT. 



In the management of the timber on the Forest, manifestly the 

 first step will be to remove as much as possible of the dead, diseased, 

 and overmature timber which forms such a considerable portion of 

 the stand. All timber sales, for the present at least, will have this 

 end in view. 



To make certain that the future stand upon the Forest will be com- 

 posed as far as possible of the more valuable species, the plan of man- 

 agement will vary with the type of timber cut. Yellow pine is the 

 most valuable tree on the forest, and the aim will be to favor it 

 wherever it is found in sufficient quantity to insure a second crop. In 

 all cases where yellow pine is to be favored, the selection system of 

 cutting will be used. Thus, in mixed stands of yellow pine, sugar 

 pine, Douglas fir, and incense cedar, the mature and overmature trees 

 will be removed, and enough yellow pine seed trees left to insure re- 

 production. The soil is stirred by logging and exposed by brush 

 burning sufficiently to insure the germination of yellow pine seed, 

 while at the same time offering unfavorable conditions for Douglas 

 fir, the seeds of which will germinate best on bare mineral soil. In- 

 cense cedar will be cut to a lower diameter limit than the other species, 

 which will mean the removal of practically all seed trees, and its con- 

 sequent elimination from the second crop. Sugar pine, though as 

 valuable a tree as yellow pine, grows very scatteringly on the Forest, 

 and its total volume in comparison with that of the other chief species 

 is exceedingly small. As many seed trees as possible will be left 

 standing, however, since the selection system is as favorable to the 

 reproduction of sugar as it is to that of yellow pine. The resultant 

 stand on such areas should contain a very large proportion of yellow 

 pine, a larger proportion of sugar pine than in the original stand. 

 and a small quantity of Douglas fir. 



While Douglas fir on the Crater Forest is not as valuable as sugar 

 pine and yellow pine, it is more valuable than any other species found 

 in quantity, and will be favored wherever it is impossible to insure 

 the predominance of yellow pine in the second stand, as well as in 



