Wood and Forest - William Noyes

1. Mahogany.
2. Pignut.
3. Mockernut.
4. Post oak.
5. Shellbark hickory.
6. Black locust.
7. Hard maple.
8. Western white oak.
9. Bur oak.
10. Basket oak.
11. Cherry birch.
12. Blue ash.
13. White oak.
14. Blue beech.
15. Cork elm.
16. Wild black cherry.
17. Red ash.
18. Black oak.
19. White ash.
20. Sour gum.
21. Black walnut.
22. Beech.
23. Black ash.
24. Slash pine.
25. Soft maple.
26. Red oak.
27. Red maple.
28. White elm.
29. Oregon ash.
30. Sycamore.
31. Oregon maple.
32. Yellow birch.
33. Long leaf pine.

34. Red cedar.
35. Western larch.
36. Sweet gum.
37. Red birch.
38. Short leaf pine.
39. Canoe birch.
40. Tamarack.
41. Cucumber tree.
42. Western yellow pine.
43. Loblolly pine.
44. Chestnut.
45. Douglas spruce.
46. Black willow.
47. Butternut.
48. Norway pine.
49. Yellow poplar.
50. Lawson cypress.
51. Hemlock.
52. Bald cypress.
53. Sugar pine.
54. Red spruce and
Black spruce.
55. Redwood.
56. Engelmann's spruce.
57. White pine.
58. White spruce.
59. Tideland spruce.
60. Western white cedar.
61. Big tree.
62. White cedar.
63. Western white pine.
64. Basswood.
65. Grand fir.

THE PRINCIPAL SPECIES OF WOODS.

References:*
- Sargent, Jesup Collection.
- Sargent, Manual.
- Britton.
- Roth, Timber.
- Hough, Handbook.
- Keeler.
- Apgar.
- Mohr. For. Bull., No. 22.
- Fernow, Forestry Investigations.
- Lumber Trade Journals.
- Baterden.
- Sargent, Silva.
- Sargent, Forest Trees, 10th Census, Vol. IX.
- Boulger.
- Hough, American Woods.
- Snow.
- Lounsberry.
- Spaulding. For. Bull., No. 13.
- Sudworth. For. Bull., No. 17.
- Forest Service Records of Wholesale Prices of Lumber, List. A.
- For particular trees consult For. Serv., Bulletins and Circulars. See For. Service Classified List of Publications.

* For general bibliography, see [p. 4.]

Chapter IV.

THE DISTRIBUTION AND COMPOSITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN FORESTS.

The forests of the United States, Map, Fig. 44, may be conveniently divided into two great regions, the Eastern or Atlantic Forest, and the Western or Pacific Forest. These are separated by the great treeless plains which are west of the Mississippi River, and east of the Rocky Mountains, and which extend from North Dakota to western Texas.[¹]

The Eastern Forest once consisted of an almost unbroken mass, lying in three quite distinct regions, (1) the northern belt of conifers, (2) the southern belt of conifers, and (3) the great deciduous (hardwood) forest lying between these two.

(1) The northern belt of conifers or "North Woods" extended thru northern New England and New York and ran south along the Appalachians. It reappeared again in northern Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. White pine, Fig. 45, was the characteristic tree in the eastern part of this belt, tho spruce was common, Fig. 56, [p. 213], and white and Norway pine and hemlock distinguished it in the western part. Altho the more valuable timber, especially the pine, has been cut out, it still remains a largely unbroken forest mainly of spruce, second growth pine, hemlock and some hardwood.