| 21. | In 1911, the Emory River Lumber Company purchased the Frozen Head area and cut most of the forest's commercial timber.
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| 22. | In June 2015, the Forest Service proposed a revegetation project to create early successional habitat by commercial timber regeneration harvests.
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| 23. | The grounds at Curraghchase were bought by the State in 1957 and the property is now used as commercial timber.
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| 24. | Prior to the 1970s the land was part of the Cumberland Timber Forest which was a supplier of commercial timber.
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| 25. | This continued into the 20th century, when the Forestry Commission acquired the woodland around Stover Lake for commercial timber production.
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| 26. | Often planted with commercial timber species, many forests lack the native nut-bearing species that sustain bears during their fall eating binges.
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| 27. | Since commercial timber exploitation officially ceased in 1972, the forest has recovered well, although large areas are dominated by planted species.
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| 28. | But there have been large, commercial timber sales 5 miles south of Pinetop-Lakeside on high-mesa land at about 6, 000-feet altitude.
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| 29. | In addition, there was an epidemic of insect damage in the commercial timber, which was estimated at 30 million board feet.
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| 30. | Most of the forests in the Sierra are intact, as they are not of sufficient quality to encourage commercial timber harvesting.
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