WESTERN" YELLOW PINE IN OREGON. 3 
The important yellow-pine land of the State may be grouped into 
three sections: (1) The Blue Mountain region, embracing all the tim- 
bered land in the northeast quarter of the State, an area that is prac- 
tically surrounded by treeless country and to a large extent consists 
of rolling hills; (2) the eastern slope of the Cascades and their out- 
standing ranges, a zone of mountain tops and plateaus, which is bor- 
dered on the west by the summit of the range and on the east by 
desert, and on which yellow pine forms 80 per cent of all the com- 
mercial timber; (3) southwestern Oregon, embracing the Siskiyou 
Mountains and the western foothills and slopes of the Cascades south 
of the Umpqua River. The timber in these regions is distributed 
as follows : 
Regions. 
Blue Mountains 
East Slope Cascades 
Southwest Oregon. . 
Total 
Acres of 
commer- 
cial yellow 
pine. 
4,276,000 
3,400,000 
2,330,000 
10,006,000 
Total stand 
in thou- 
sands of 
feet b. m. 
31,350,000 
33,185,000 
6,830,000 
71,365,000 
Most of Oregon's 70,000,000,000 feet of yellow pine occurs in 10 
counties, each of which has over 1,500,000,000 feet b. m. and 300,000 
acres of commercial yellow-pine timberland. In the order of the 
volume of their standing yellow pine, the counties are thought to 
rank as follows: Klamath, Crook, Lake, Grant, Jackson, Wallowa, 
Baker, Wheeler, Harney, and Union. Table l, 1 prepared in 1912 and 
1913, indicates the acreage and amount of yellow pine in private and 
in Government ownership for the counties in which it occurs in com- 
mercial quantities. 
Table 1. — Ownership and stand of yellow pine in Oregon, by counties. 
County. 
Privately owned yellow- 
pine timberland. 
Government yellow-pine 
timberland. 2 
Total 
Acres. 
213, 168 
535,346 
59,520 
Feet b. m. 
1,536,000,000 
6,847,900,000 
45,400,000 
Acres. 
306, 064 
638,115 
. 493,721 
Feet b. m. 
1,345,000,000 
6,415,000,000 
55, 300 ; 000 
Acres. 
519,232 
1, 173, 461 
553,241 
Feet b. m. 
2,881,000,000 
13,262,900,000 
100,700,000 
3 20, 000, 000 
301,820 
36,960 
6,000 
592,751 
773,927 
836, 750 
301,539 
2,853,000,000 
339,000,000 
18,000,000 
5,431,000,000 
721,600,000 
7,393,000,000 
3,340,000,000 
884,200 
315,335 
4,000 
31,840 
363,327 
994,000 
569,232 
5,315,000,000 
2,285,000,000 
12,000,000 
223,000,000 
296,800,000 
10,725,600,000 
5,500,000,000 
1,186,020 
352,295 
10,000 
624, 591 
1,137,254 
1,830,750 
870, 771 
4 15,000 
137, 200 
67,200 
355, 440 
688,486 
185,000 
300, 565 
8,168,000,000 
2, 624, 000, 000 
Hood River 
30,000,000 
5,654,000,000 
1,018,400,000 
Klamath 
18,118,600,000 
8,840,000,000 
4 40, 000, 000 
112,200 
32,200 
235, 640 
171,330 
40,000 
198,875 
777, 000, 000 
275,000,000 
1,561,000,000 
1,808,500,000 
280,000,000 
1,586,000,000 
25,000 
35,000 
119,800 
517, 156 
145,000 
101,690 
143,000,000 
233,000,000 
395,000,000 
1,525,000,000 
920,000,000 
1,101,000,000 
920,000,000 
508,000,000 
Union 
1,956,000,000 
3,333,500,000 
1,200,000,000 
Wheeler 
2,687,000,000 
Total 
4,448,026 
34,812,400,000 
5,543,480 
36,489,700,000 
10,006,506 
71,362,100,000 
1 From a compilation prepared largely by Forest Examiner R. M. Evans on the amount, distribution, 
and ownership of yellow pine in Oregon. 
2 All within the National Forests except that which is within the Klamath and Warm Springs Indian Res- 
ervations and the small amount owned by the State. 
8 Estimated; occurs as scattered trees. 
* Estimated; occurs chiefly as scattered trees. 
