Excerpt from The Forests of Wyoming: Wood, Water, Forage, Wild Life, Recreation Only about 16 percent of the State of Wyo ming is forest land. Nevertheless, this forest area of million acres produces timber, water, recreation, and grazing that are very important to the State and the Nation. Some of these products or uses have been important for a long time. However, recreation is only beginning to come into its own. The grazing load is about all the forests can support at the present time, but there is a great Oppor tunity to expand the other uses. In consider ing the timber resource under present and future conditions of forest management, tim ber use cannot be considered apart from the demands on the forest for water, recreation, and grazing. Few acres, if any, can be man aged for one use alone. For this reason the demands of water, recreation, and grazing uses are discussed in addition to the timber resource the principal topic of this report.to the Union Pacific Railway in its construe tion of the first transcontinental railroad through Wyoming in 1867-69. During the next several decades as railroads fanned out through the West, tie hacks hewed millions of ties from Wyoming trees. During this period timber cut in Wyoming reached a peak that was not exceeded until the late l95o's. The tie hack with his broadax finally gave way to the greater efficiency of sawmills. This did not occur rapidly. Even as late as 1927, most of the ties were hand hewed at Fox Park and other big tie operations. 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.