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FORESTS OF WISCONSIN. 
Original stand of pine in north Wisconsin. 
(Only the 27 counties visited are involved here.) 
Name of river 
basin. 
Number 
of town¬ 
ship 
stocked. 
Yield per 
town¬ 
ship. 
Million 
ft. 
Yield 
per river 
basin. 
Million 
ft. 
Yield for 
river as 
per cent, 
of total 
per cent. 
Present 
stand. 
Million 
ft. 
Black . 
40 
225 
9,000 
7.0 
250 
St. Croix. 
100 
125 
12,500 
9.7 
3,500 
Considerable jack 
pine barrens. 
Red Cedar. 
40 
200 
8,000 
6.2 
475 
Cuippewa. 
175 
200 
35,000 
27.0 
3,500 
Wisconsin . 
172 
175 
30,100 
23.1 
2,800 
Much hardwood area. 
Wolf. 
60 
125 
7,500 
5.8 
475 
Much hardwood area. 
Oconto. 
28 
125 
3,500 
2.7 
150 
Much hardwood area. 
Peshtigo. 
27 
150 
4,050 
3.1 
500 
Menominee. 
47 
150 
7,050 
5.4 
1,500 
Only Wisconsin side. 
Rivers to Lake 
Superior. 
76 
150 
11,400 
8.8 
4,200 
Rivers to Green 
Bay. 
7 
200 
1,400 
1.1 
Total. 
772 
129,400 
100 
17,400 
Of these 129.4 billion there is approximately: 
Standing at present. 17.4 billion feet. 
Cut between 1873 to 1898_ 66.0 billion feet. 
Probable cut 1840 to 1873 ... 20.0 billion feet. 
Accounted for. 103.4 billion feet. 
Leaving about 26 billion feet as probably wasted; chiefly destroyed by fire. 
Present .—In considering the present supplies of pine, both 
white and red (Norway) pine, of which fully 80 per cent, is 
owned by lumbermen, it must be borne in mind that in spite of 
many years of logging, but few townships of the better stocked 
regions, outside of settlements, have been logged clean, and 
counties like Chippewa, Clark, Marathon, and even Wood, still 
continue to furnish large quantities of pine logs of all sizes. It 
is also interesting to note in this connection, that it is not so 
much a lack of good logs, but the fact that of late everything is 
cut clean, which has reduced the average size of logs to half of 
what it was twenty years ago. But it is especially the fragmen¬ 
tary or culled condition of the forest which makes general or 
