TIMBER. 



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Prospect, a distance of 50 miles, for which the Kogue Kiver will 

 furnish power. Power sites are also found on Butte Creek, on the 

 Middle Fork of Kogue River, and on Whiskey Creek. 



TIMBER. 

 SPECIES AND AMOUNT. 



According to the best available estimates, the 10,197,000,000 feet 

 of timber on the Forest is made up of yellow pine, 1,767,000,000 

 board feet ; Douglas fir, 3,234,000,000 board feet ; sugar pine, 195,000 

 board feet; white fir, 2,204,000,000 board feet; and other species, 

 2,797,000,000 board feet. Of the trees included under " other species," 

 noble fir, lodgepole pine, Engelmann spruce, incense cedar, and west- 

 ern white pine are the most important. 



The topography of the Forest divides it naturally into four parts — 

 the east slope, the Cascade Plateau, the west slope, and the Siskiyou 

 Mountains. The stand on each of these is given in the following 

 table: 



Stand 



of timber on 



the Grater National Forest, by divisions. 







East 

 slope. 



Per 

 cent. 



Cascade 

 Plateau. 



Per 

 cent. 



West 

 slope. 



Per 



cent. 



Siskiyou 

 Moun- 

 tains. 



Per 

 cent. 



Total. 



Per 

 cent. 





Million 

 boardfeet. 

 463 

 319 

 58 

 267 

 529 



28 

 19 

 4 

 17 

 32 



Million 



boardfeet. 



184 



690 



15 



640 



1,075 



7 

 27 



""25* 

 41 



Million 



boardfeet. 



1,040 



1,600 



114 



824 



840 



24 

 36 

 2 

 18 

 20 



Million 



boardfeet. 



80 



625 



8 



473 



353 



5 



41 



""31 



23 



Million 

 boardfeet. 

 1,767 

 3,234 

 195 

 2,204 

 2,797 



17 





31 



Sugar pine 



White fir 



2 



21 



Other species 



29 



Total 



1,636 



100 



2,604 



100 



4,418 



100 



1,539 



100 



10, 197 



100 







FOREST TYPES. 



The traveler through the timber on the Crater Forest will meet 

 four broad forest types: (1) Yellow pine, (2) lodgepole pine, (3) 

 Douglas fir, and (4) subalpine. 



On the east slope of the Cascades, below 5,000 feet, should he 

 enter the Forest from that side, he will encounter the yellow-pine 

 type. Yellow pine is the most valuable timber tree of any found in 

 quantity on the Forest. Though it grows in the Siskiyous from 1,500 

 to 3,500 feet, and on the west slope of the Cascades up to 4,300 feet, 

 it is only on the east slope that it is well marked as a type. Here 

 the traveler will pass through a forest which, while rarely if ever 

 pure yellow pine, often is nearly so, especially on the slopes, benches, 

 and flats. Douglas fir, sugar pine, white fir, incense cedar, and lodge- 

 pole pine, however, are usually present in mixture, though one or 

 more may be absent. The stand on the type is comparatively open, 

 and the forest floor is dry, though in places a heavy cover of snow- 

 brush and in others manzanita and low brushes, tend to retard 

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