FOREST RESOURCE STATISTICS 



CASCADE COUNTY, MONTANA 



By 



H. J. Pissot and E. F. Peffer 

 Foreword 



The McSweeney-McNary Forest Research Act of May 22, 1928, authorized 

 and directed the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with state 

 and private agencies, to make a comprehensive Nation-wide survey of 

 forest resources. The objective of the survey was to assemble whatever 

 information was considered necessary to provide ways and means of bal- 

 ancing the timber budget of the United States. The Secretary of 

 Agriculture delegated the authority to the Forest Service, which 

 assigned the task to the several regional forest experiment stations. 



The study was designed to include five major phases: (l) an inventory 

 of the extent and condition of forest lands, of timber supplies and of 

 other forest products; (2) a determination of current and potential 

 growth on forest land; (3) a determination of current drain resulting 

 from cutting and other factors; (4) a determination of present con- 

 sumption and estimated future requirements for timber and other forest 

 products; and (5) an analysis of the facts for the purpose of formu- 

 lating national policies to improve the forest situation. 



In 1940 the Northern Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station 

 initiated count y-by-comty surveys of the forest resources in eastern 

 Montana, By the end of 1943, field work and office compilation had 

 been completed for Fergus, Judith Basin, and Chouteau Counties. The 

 results were published in a series of statistical releases. 



Field work in Cascade County was suspended in 1942 because of World 

 War II. Upon termination of the war, the survey was renewed and the 

 field work was completed in 1946. Adjustments were made in the 

 statistics obtained prior to the war so that the data presented in the 

 following report are as of 1947. 



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