THE OUTLOOK FOR TIMBER DEMANDS 



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MISCELLANEOUS AND RESIDUAL USES OF 

 LUMBER AND PANEL PRODUCTS 



SUMMARY OF DEMAND PROJECTIONS FOR 

 LUMBER 



The specific end uses covered in previous sec- 

 tions accounted for nearly all of the apparent 

 consumption of lumber and panel products in 1962. 

 The remaining volumes — amounting to about a 

 billion board feet of lumber and 0.2 billion square 

 feet of plywood — were presumably used for a wide 

 variety of miscellaneous purposes, including "do- 

 it-yourself" projects such as construction of 

 furniture, bulletin boards, and boats; the building 

 of miscellaneous structures such as picnic tables, 

 signs, and foot bridges; made-on-the-job adver- 

 tising and display structures; wood products used 

 for teaching woodworking in schools; and scenery 

 and staging for theatrical productions. 



Part of these residual volumes may properly 

 belong in the statistics for construction, manu- 

 facturing, and shipping presented earlier. Some 

 underestimate of wood use in these various cate- 

 gories may have occurred since the estimates were 

 necessarily based on surveys and special studies 

 that involve both sampling errors and unknown 

 reporting biases. 



These residual volumes are relatively small, 

 however, and no attempt was made to allocate 

 them to specific end uses. In the projections of 

 wood use shown in the following section, an allow- 

 ance has been made for these miscellaneous and 

 residual items. 



Consumption of lumber in all uses in 1962 

 amounted to an estimated 37.3 billion board feet 

 (table 31). This was slightly below average con- 

 sumption over the period 1948-62 (fig. 19).-- 



New residential construction has been the most 

 important market for lumber, accounting for 

 about 37 percent of total consumption in 1962 

 (table 31). Other construction accounted for 

 another 37 percent of the total, and manufacturing 

 and shipping each about 12 percent. 



Projected Demands Rise to 53.5 

 Billion Board Feet by 2000 



Projections of lumber demands show a gradual 

 rise from 37.3 billion board feet in 1962 to 39.7 

 billion feet in 1970 and 53.5 billion feet in 2000 

 (table 31 and fig. 19). This upward trend assumes 



22 Data in this figure are based on Census estimates of 

 lumber production and net imports. Forest Service esti- 

 mates of lumber production in 1952 based on special 

 surveys of log and lumber production indicated an output 

 approximately 2 billion board feet higher than reported 

 by the Census in that year. Forest Service estimates of 

 saw log production in 1962 developed from both Census 

 and local sources were approximately 1 billion board feet 

 higher than the Census estimate of lumber production. 



Table 31. — Summary of lumber consumption, by end use and per capita use, 1952-2000 



End use 



1952 



1962 



Projections 





1970 



1980 



1990 



2000 



Construction: 

 Residential 



Million 



board feet 



13,010 



5,400 



5,700 



4,500 



2,000 



780 



Million 



board feet 



13,960 



5,000 



5,400 



2,000 



940 



330 



Million 



board feet 



14,400 



6,000 



5,900 



1,900 



1,500 



300 



Million 



board feet 



15,900 



6,900 



6,500 



1,900 



1,500 



300 



Million 



board feet 



17,900 



8,000 



7,100 



1,900 



1,500 



400 



Million 

 board feet 

 20,600 



Nonresidential 



9,200 



Upkeep and improvements 



Farming 



7,800 

 1,900 



Railroads, 



1,500 



Mining .. 



400 







TotaL. 



31,390 



27,630 



30,000 



33,000 



36,800 



41,400 







Manufactured products 



Shipping and materials handling,. _ 

 Miscellaneous and residual _. 



3,950 

 6,120 



4,240 

 4,340 

 1,090 



4,400 

 4,300 

 1,000 



4,600 

 4,700 

 1,100 



4,900 

 5,100 

 1,200 



5,300 

 5,400 

 1,400 









Total use 



41,460 



37,300 



39,700 



43,400 



48,000 



53 , 500 







Total use per capita 



Board feet 

 263 



Board feet 

 200 



Board feet 

 191 



Board feet 

 180 



Board feet 

 171 



Board feet 

 165 



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