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Show TOLL Or TALL TtMBEX. Oregon has more standing merchantable merchant-able timber than any other state In the union. There ere approximately IST.soa.oOA.oee feet, board measure, of standing timber In Oregon. &o per cent of which la located In western Oregon. Five -eighths of Oregon's so.aoo aquare miles of timbered area, haa been sst aside as forest reeerve. Climatically the Ceaceds range of mountains divides Oregon Into two widely wide-ly diverse districts; Western Oregon, wtth its molat, mild climate, and eastern Oregon, with Its almost perpetual sunshine. sun-shine. .A rich and fertile soil, an even temperature tem-perature end an abundance of precipitation precipita-tion In western Oreson present Ideal conditions con-ditions for the growth of the Douglas fir. which forms 71 per cent of the forest growth of western Oregon. Aalde from the Douglas fir. the principal varieties of commercial timber found In the Willamette Willa-mette valley, southern Oregon and the coast districts are: Sugar pine, sprues, yellow pine, hemlock and cedar. In eastern Oregon ths drouth resisting yellow pi ne forms SO per cent of th standing timber, while" the moisture loving lov-ing Douglas fir forms hut 11 per cent of tbe format amwth. Fred Lock ley in the April PeHne Monthly. |