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SOUTHLAND
CALIFORNIA SUMMARIZED HISTORY, FACTS, AND DEMOGRAPHICS
Economic Activities
Forestry
California
usually ranks third among the states, after Oregon and Washington, in output of
timber and lumber. Lumbering is the chief economic activity in the Sierra Nevada
and in northwestern California. Redwood and Douglas fir are the most important
commercial species in the northwest. Ponderosa or yellow pine is the principal
commercial species in the Sierra Nevada. About two-fifths of the forestland is
classified as commercial forest; more than half of the commercial forest is
managed by the United States Forest Service.
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