United States Department of Asriculture 

 forest service 



INT Ogden 



BEPLY TO: 



4820 Production Economics 



October 29, 1971 



SUBJECT: 



TO: 



Forest Land Stratification Study 



Chief 



Enclosed is a report of the study. Forest Land Stratification for Timber 

 Management Planning on the National Forests of the West, that you 

 requested the Intermountain Station and six Western Forest Service 

 Regions to undertake cooperatively. Although we have no basis for 

 saying the data presented in this report represent a statistical average 

 for the western National Forests, they do indicate the general nature of 

 the situation. 



This study concludes work initiated in response to Recommendation No, 4 

 of the 1966 General Integrating Inspection of the Northern Region and the 

 Intermountain Station, We have had the full cooperation of the Regional 

 Forester and staff of each of the six Western Regions in carrying out 

 this study. It is, therefore, with great satisfaction that I submit this 

 report to you on behalf of the Station and the cooperating Regions, 



ROBERT W. HARRIS 

 Director 



Enclosure 



COVER PHOTO: A 17-year-old stand of lodgepole pine on 

 the Gallatin National Forest, Montana. The stand was 

 thinned in 1962. 



