FOREST RESOURCES 11 
The lumber cut for 1919 was approximately 339,760,000 board 
feet. 
Redwood. — The redwood {Sequoia sempervirens) is confined to 
a narrow belt from 10 to 30 miles wide near the Pacific Coast, 
extending southward from southern Oregon to San Luis Obispo 
County in California. It is associated with Douglas fir, tanbark 
oak (Quercus densi flora), western red cedar and western hemlock. 
The chief commercial stands are in Humboldt and Del Norte 
Counties in the northern part of California. 
The average yield per acre is from 60,000 to 75,000 board feet, 
although 100,000 feet per acre is not uncommon. Single acres 
are said to have yielded 1,500,000 feet of sawed lumber, and 
individual trees have contained 480,000 board feet of merchantable 
timber. The highest stand so far reported is 2,500,000 feet per 
acre, but the yield in merchantable material was reduced 40 
per cent through breakage and other losses. The waste in log- 
ging redwood is enormous, because of the massive size of the trees 
and the brittle character of the timber. 
The trees average 6 or 7 feet in diameter, although from 10 
to 14 feet is not uncommon, with a maximum of about 20 feet. 
The clear length ranges from 100 to 200 feet. 
The lumber is marketed along the Pacific Coast, in the Far 
East, and some high grade lumber is shipped to the central 
and eastern parts of the United States. It furnishes wide boards 
of excellent quality for panels and interior finish. In the West 
it is used extensively for tanks, flume boxes, house construction, 
fence posts, shingles and shakes. 
There is very little redwood stumpage on the market, because 
the greater part of the timber is held by companies which are 
now exploiting it. 
The lumber cut^ in 1920 was approximately 476,500,000 feet. 
Cypress. — The commercial range of cypress (Taxodium 
distichum) is confined to a narrow strip of swampy land extend- 
ing along the Atlantic seaboard from North Carolina to Florida, 
along the Gulf Coast in Florida, Louisiana and western Missis- 
sippi, and up the Mississippi River to southern Arkansas. 
The average stands range from 5000 to 8000 board feet per acre, 
the better ones containing from 15,000 to 20,000 feet while an 
occasional acre in Louisiana reaches a maximum of 100,000 
* This includes the cut of the bigtree (Sequoia Washingtonia). 
