Excerpt from Forest Resources of the Ponderosa Pine Region of Washington and Oregon It is not enough to know that this region has 22 million acres of forest land and 127 billion board feet of saw timber. To reap the full economic benefits of this resource a detailed understanding of how it can be made to contribute most to the welfare of the people is necessary. Based upon this understanding, plans for adoption of sustained yield must be formulated and effectuated immediately, to avoid wasteful migra tion of industry and people that follows exhaustion of forest resources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.