4. Saw-timber volume in Rocky 

 Mountain states 



COLORADO 



NEW MEXICO - NEVADA- UTAH 



NUMBERS INDICATE 

 BILLIONS OF BOARD FEET 



Of the 8 Rocky Mountain states 

 Montana ranks second in the 

 volume of standing saw timber. 

 Nationally, Montana ranks 

 fifth in volume of timber, but 

 in terms of lumber production 

 it was eighteenth in 1947. 

 Ninety-nine percent of the 

 volume is in softwoods and 

 nearly three fourths is in the 

 Western Unit. 



5. Ownership of saw timber 



Federal ownership predominates 

 Sixty-five percent of all the 

 saw timber in the State is on 

 federal land, 30 percent on 

 private industrial and farm 

 holdings, and 5 percent in 

 state and county ownership. 

 The Forest Service manages 91 

 percent of the federal timber; 

 the Indian Service, Bureau of 

 Land Management, and other 

 federal agencies the rest. 



DOUGLAS FIR 



6. Species distribution of saw- 

 timber volume 



WESTERN LARCH 



PONDEROSA PINE 



ENGELMANN SPRUCE 



LODGEPOLE PINE 



OTHER SOFTWOODS 



NUMBERS INDICATE 

 BILLIONS OF BOARD FEET 



Just about 50 percent of the 

 saw timber is of two species: 

 Douglas-fir and western larch. 

 On a cubic-foot basis lodge- 

 pole pine ranks second because 

 of the large number of small 

 size trees. Ponderosa pine, 

 although making up less than 

 one fifth of the volume, makes 

 up about two fifths of the 

 lumber cut. 



HARDWOODS 



