| Show Timber potential for Utah is reported By U. S. forest Type of product enhances expansion Western southeast and northern Utah an untapped Umber resource capable of supporting new workers in the near future and even more Tills information comes from a publication just issued by the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Opportunities in the Headwaters Timber Development The which is an analysis of the timber resource the headwaters of and Snake River Is the result of a study by S. Blair Hutchison and John H. U. S. Forest Service In Issuing the Reed W. Director of ithe experiment station by our economics staff Is an important milestone in the effort to develop the natural resources of the Intermountain It shows that we have tine timber base for a nine-fold expansion of wood-using which is certainly a fact of major significance to southeastern western and It is estimated that the timber resource alone will support a 20 percent population increase in the To Mako Study Director Bailey said the study made by Hutchison and two well-known forest was undertaken at request of the administrative branch of the U. S. Forest Service which manages most of the 5 million acres of commercial forest in the Headwaters Their study indicates a minimum sustainable annual cut in the next few decades of million board feet of and thousand cords of smaller Eventually with considerable intensification of forest management and the sustained annual cut of saw-timber could be increased to million board feet and thousand the authors of the timber is suitable for lumber so a considerable expansion of the lumber industry is both feasible and the authors caution that the new sawmills should be of a kind and size which provide stable income to the maximum employment at reasonable full utilization of the and a high grade Possible They also point out the area also offers an opportunity for and composition board plants to use the more than half of the wood unsuited for Assistance of the U. S. Public Health Service was obtained in analyzing A reconnaissance survey by that agency indicates two general locations in the Unit suitable for chemical One is near Idaho on the Snake The other is on the Green River near Green The Division of Forest Economics of the Experiment headed by Harry W. has written two other reports soon to be One is Pine A Lumber The second Prospects for Rocky Mountain |
