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Show Dixie Forest Timber Cut Over Nine Million a Year For the past eight years over nine million board feet of timber tim-ber per year has been taken from the Dixie National forest, according accord-ing to a report released by the Forest Service today. The principal output of the forest is in the form of sawtim-ber, sawtim-ber, the report indicates, with the Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir furnishing practically all of this product. However, as the years have progressed more and more varie-ties varie-ties of timber have been taken lrom the forest, the report stated. In 1952 a total of 9,240,000 board feet of wood products were extracted ex-tracted from the Dixie forest. Again the Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir were the main products pro-ducts but with only 60 per cent of the total volume. Some of the uses of timber, other than for sawtimber, are: fence posts (Utah juniper), mine proper (Engelmann spruce), poles (fir, spruce, aspen), cord-wood cord-wood for excelsior (aspen), and a small amount of fuel wood. Forty-seven sawmills are located locat-ed on or near the forest the report re-port stated, and an estimated 300 men were given part-time employment em-ployment harvesting the wood products. The yearly cut is limited so that growth will replace the trees taken. Only light cutting is permitted on all timber sales because this promotes the maximum maxi-mum growth and yield from each acre in the long run. |