COLORADO 



THE SITUATION IN 1962 



The total output of roundwood forest products in Colorado during 1962 was about 36.4 

 million cubic feet- -a decline of almost 16 percent since 1952."'^ That total included products 

 from live and dead trees harvested on commercial^ and noncommercial forest land. 



Roundwood products harvested in Colorado in 1962 included saw logs (for lumber), pulp- 

 wood logs and bolts, commercial poles, mine timbers, miscellaneous industrial wood (mainly 

 house logs, excelsior bolts, match splint logs, and converter poles), posts, fuelwood, and 

 miscellaneous farm timbers. Engelmann spruce, blue spruce, and lodgepole pine collectively 

 accounted for over 75 percent of the total output. 



Colorado Timber Products Output by Species, 1962 



Engelmann spruce & 

 Blue spruce 



Lodgepole pine 



Ponderosa pine 



Aspen & Cottonwood 



43% 



33% 



12% 



5% 



Douglas-fir 



True firs' 



4% 



3% 



' White, subalpine, and corkbark firs. 



Public lands, primarily National Forest lands, supplied 90 percent of Colorado's total 

 output for 1962. 



U.S. Forest Service. Timber resources for America's future. U.S. Dept. Agr. , 

 Forest Resource Rpt. 14, 713 pp., illus. 1958. 



Forest land which is producing or is capable of producing crops of industrial wood and 

 is not withdrawn from timber utilization. 



