TIMBER VOLUME 



Cascade County has 100,5^7,000 board 

 feet, Scribner scale, of sawtimber. 

 Slightly more than 66 million board 

 feet of this is found on 17,291 acres 

 of stocked sawtimber stands. This is 

 an average of 3,822 board feet per 

 acre. 'The savrbimber stands have 

 15,470,900 cubic feet of sawtimber 

 and pole trees, or an average of 895 

 cubic feet per acre. 



The largest volume of sawtimber is in 

 lodgepole pine with 32,527,000 board 

 feet; second is Douglas-fir with 

 26,530,000; and third is ponderosa 

 pine with 21,830,000. These three 

 species make up 81 percent of the 

 sawtimber volume. The remainder is 

 in small quantities of cottonwood, 

 spruce, alpine fir, white bark and 

 limber pine, box elder, and black' 

 willow. 



Cordwood trees, more than 5.0 inches 

 d.b.h. but less than sawbiiriber size 

 (11.0 inches' d.b.h. for hardwood and 

 pines and 13. inches for all other 

 species), make up three quarters of 

 the cubic volume,' The total cordwood 

 tree volume is 65,414,400 cubic feet 

 or about 750,000 cords. Of this total 

 4/10 is lodgepole and 3/lO Douglas-fir. 

 These species are a potential source 

 of pulpwood as they occur in concentra- 

 tions conducive to private logging 

 operations. 



The Lewis & Clark National Forest 

 contains nearly 60 percent of the 

 sawtimber volume in the county. Much 

 of this timber is in the Little Belt 

 Mountains and is relatively inacces- 

 sible at the present time. 



75% OF THE TIMBER VOLUME 

 IS IN CORDWOOD TREES 



3 SPECIES MAKE UP 81% OF THE 

 SAW-TIMBER VOLUME 



THE LEWIS AND CLARK FOREST 

 HAS 60% OF THE SAW-TIMBER 

 VOLUME 



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