. Timber depletion, lumber prices, lumber exports, and concentration of timber ownership. Report on Senate resolution 311. Forests and forestry; Lumber; Timber. TIMBER DEPLETION", PBICES, EXPOETS, AND OWNEESHIP. 33 New Englanit Middle Atlantic-- Lake- .. Centre!. «Jm** Atlantic and Cdjt euif.:-,,-\ Lower M/\ssiesrppi Reeky Mountain. Paafie Coast-. 100 200 000 400 600 Fig. JOO 600 700 BILLION BOARD FCLT Stand of saw timber in the United States by regions. SOO 1000' 1100' 1200 feet, or less than 3 per cent of the total. (See Table 6 and fig 6.) The exhaustion of the eastern forests and
. Timber depletion, lumber prices, lumber exports, and concentration of timber ownership. Report on Senate resolution 311. Forests and forestry; Lumber; Timber. TIMBER DEPLETION", PBICES, EXPOETS, AND OWNEESHIP. 33 New Englanit Middle Atlantic-- Lake- .. Centre!. «Jm** Atlantic and Cdjt euif.:-,,-\ Lower M/\ssiesrppi Reeky Mountain. Paafie Coast-. 100 200 000 400 600 Fig. JOO 600 700 BILLION BOARD FCLT Stand of saw timber in the United States by regions. SOO 1000' 1100' 1200 feet, or less than 3 per cent of the total. (See Table 6 and fig 6.) The exhaustion of the eastern forests and the steady progress of the lumber industry toward the West Is well indicated by the location of the remaining stands of sawtimber. Thus, New England, the Middle Atlantic, Central, and Lake States, with 35 per cent of the total forest area, contain only 349 billion board feet, or 16 per cent of the total; while the Pacific Coast States, with only 13 per cent of the forest area, contain 1,141 billion board feet, or nearly 52 per cent of the total. (See fig 7.) Between these two extremes come At- lantic, East Gulf, and Lower Mississippi States, with 39 per cent of the forest area and 23 per cent of the sawtimber; and the Eocky Mountain States, with 13 per cent of the forest area and 10 per cent of the sawtimber. Altogether, 61 per cent of the present stand of sawtimber lies west of the Great Plains. In other words, the depletion of our eastern forest resources has now reached the point where the softwood stands in the Northern and Central States can no longer contribute any large proportion of the total softwood lumber consumption of the country, where the Southern States are losing the command- ing position that they have held for the last 20 or 30 years, and where the one great reservoir of softwood timber still left lies on the Pacific coast, chiefly in the Pacific Northwest. Douglas fir, with an estimated total stand of 596 billion board feet, approximately 85 per c
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