Document Type

Report

Publication Date

1997

Abstract

About 5.2 million acres, or 25 percent, of northern Utah is forested. Fifty-two percent of this forest area is capable of producing commercial wood products and is classified as timberland. Forty-eight percent is classified as woodland, primarily pinyon-juniper. The predominant forest types on the timberland are aspen, Douglas-fir, lodgepole pine, and spruce-fir. The National Forest System manages 70 percent of the timberland; 23 percent is under private ownership, and 7 percent is under other public ownership (local, State, and other Federal). Thirteen percent of the timberland is withdrawn from commercial timber production and is in a reserved status. Most reserved timberland is found under National Forest System management. The total volume of growing stock on nonreserved timberland in northern Utah is 3.4 billion cubic feet. In order, Douglas-fir, lodgepole pine, aspen, Engelmann spruce, and subalpine fir species account for most of the volume. Net annual growth averages 38.6 million cubic feet after the impact of mortality, which averaged 47.9 million cubic feet annually.

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SuDocs call # A 13.80:INT-RB-91

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