Hungry Horse news., 1955-01-14
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IS 900 600 board feet sold but not
vet cut. and in addition planned
Flathead National Forest sales that
will include spruce bark beetle IN
tested area discovered this past
year on Shorty and Matthias creeks
up the North Fork and Lost Johnny
and Sullivan creeks up the Soutn
Fork.
1855 is expected to be a consld-
erably less active year for sales
than 1854 with its 1897 ,OOO
board feet in contracts. With the
spruce bark beetle infestation once
controlled and beyond the salvage
stage, Flathead National Forest
plans to return to the 10000, 600
board feet figure that its lands are
believed capable of sustaining year
after year. When the time comes,
mills will turn toward other sour
ces that include state owned tim
Der and trees on private Land
which even now are large contrl-
butors to the valley log supplies.
/ If good markets continue COM
petition for logs will increase.
GLACIER VIEW LEADS
i Again in 1854, Glacier View dis
trict north of Columbia Falls and
Coram had the Target output. In
1854 it was 35,614,0OO board feet
compared to 22,39l 900 board feet
in 1858.
i This is the Flathead's principal
spruce forest, where before the
!, blowdown salvage of 1882 and
the spruce bark beetle control pro-
gram that followed, output was
100000 board feet year. Sus-
tanned yield figure had been a.
100000 board feet.
! Showing the most marked in
2 crease percentage wise for 1854
: was Condor district of the Upper
Swan where the 1858 cut of fed
orally sold timber was 2,565, ZOO
a board feet, and in 1854 up to 49,
I 544 1000.
Tally lake district showed an in
Z crease with 100000 board feet
cut up from 14,348,0O0 in 1858
: while Coram district cut of 49,
: $4,000 board feet for 1854 was
e down from 1882, 900 in 1858, ane
: the Swan with 1861, 900 board fee
~ was half of the 1858 cut OF l5,-
81 $4,000.
g Christmas tree output on fores
lands is a small part of the Flat.
head yield. 1t was 48,898 trees Gu
/ in 1854 compared to the peak yea
y of 1949 with 194,887 trees.
* LEFT TO CUT
s. Columbia Falls, Martin City AM
j. Coram mills still have sizeabl
ID portions of their 1858 and 1875
r Flathead National Forest pur
chases left to cut.
er Plum Creek mill has 23,600,0O
nj board foot purchase up Whal
10 creek with just 100000 boar
a. feet out The Plum Creek Canyo
i creek purchase of 28,220,000 boar
ro feet has 100000 board feet Oh
ne Rocky Mountain Lumber com
wv pany's HalloWatt creek purchas
of 15,60O,000 board feet has 1000
a. 900 board feet out, and the Quir
"a tonken creek purchase Of $4,000
- 600 board feet is still in the roa
~ building stage.
or Rex Browns Teepee creek pun
chase of 100000 board feet h;
100000 board feet out.
F, K and l. Lumber Co., h;
lct 100000 board feet out of the Is
ast 100000 board foot Logan cree
se' purchase.
De Superior Buildings Co., has 2
lso 100000 board feet out of the
{ 100000 North Fork of Co
le- creek purchase.
al TRAP TREE PROGRAM
Weyerman praised cooperate,
age of loggers in getting trap ire
uit out of the forests. During 10
TOT there were $4,000 trap trees cut
ID the North Fork and in the Sws
og- These were felled with the i'd
sea that a downed tree attract
:. spruce bark beetles in flight me
sen than healthy, living tree. Ne
leu phase is to remove these infest
d. logs with their concentrated bee
population from the forest.
noa At the end of 1854 there VIZ
per $500 trap trees removed by timf
III operators as part of their loggi
up contracts. Another 1900 are dec
test 80 eon orc ~ further raachas J
} of ,r;11 oonoa oft raxt s,,non,er
go charge of the trap tree progr
pc is Bud Daugharty, timber speci