Excerpt from Lumber Recovery From Second-Growth Douglas-Fir Second - growth stands of Douglas - fir are producing a rapidly increasing propor tion of the commercial timber available in the Pacific Northwest. In the Coast Ranges of Oregon (fig. There are large areas of 40 to 100-year - old stands result ing from a series of large fires and exten sive early logging. Little current informa tion is available on the recovery of forest products to be expected from this resource. 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.