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Projected demands for all industrial roundwood 

 in 2000, amounting to an estimated 20.8 billion 

 cubic feet, would represent about 21 percent of the 

 total industrial raw materials that might be 

 consumed in the United States in that year, 

 according to the analysis of prospective raw 

 materials use presented earlier in the section on 

 Trends in Demand for Industrial Raw Materials 

 (fig. 29). This would be slightly less than the 

 average of about 22.5 percent during the period 

 1931-61. 



Slight Increase in Per Capita Demand 

 for Industrial Roundwood Projected 



Per capita consumption of all roundwood 

 timber products combined, including both domes- 

 tic roundwood and net imports, amounted to 63 

 cubic feet in 1962 (fig. 30). This was about 19 

 percent below the figure of 78 cubic feet per capita 

 in 1952. For industrial roundwood, per capita 

 use has shown a much slower decline, from 65 

 cubic feet in 1952 to 57 cubic feet in 1962. 



Projections of per capita demand for industrial 

 roundwood show a prospective rise to 64 cubic 

 feet by 2000. Rather substantial increases in 

 per capita use were projected for round pulpwood 

 and modest increases for veneer logs, whereas 

 further reductions were indicated in per capita 

 use of saw logs, miscellaneous industrial wood, and 

 fuel wood. 



U.S. Forests Supply About 87 

 Percent of Total Roundwood 



Domestic forests supplied about 10.3 billion 

 cubic feet of roundwood products in 1962, or 87 

 percent of the total roundwood consumed in 

 U.S. markets (table 45). Net imports represented 

 about 1.5 billion cubic feet, or 13 percent of the 

 total roundwood used. 



It is estimated that net imports will continue 

 to supply about the same proportion of total 

 demands for industrial wood over the projection 

 period. Demands for domestic roundwood are 

 thus projected to 18.7 billion cubic feet by 2000. 



Table 46.- 



-Domestic timber production, by product, section, and species group, 1962 





Section and species 



Saw logs 

 (lumber) 



Veneer 

 logs 



Pulpwood 



Miscellaneous 

 industrial wood 



Fuelwood 



group 



Round- 

 wood 



Plant by- 

 products 



Round- 

 wood 



Plant by- 

 products 



Round- 

 wood 



Plant by- 

 products 



North: 

 Softwoods 



Million 

 board feet 

 1,090 

 2,880 



Million 

 board feet 

 1 

 245 



Million 

 cords 

 3.9 

 3.7 



Million 

 cords 

 0.1 

 .1 



Million 

 cubic feet 

 40 

 138 



Million 

 cubic feet 



1 

 14 



Million 

 cords 

 0.4 

 6.4 



Million 

 cords 

 0.5 



Hardwoods. 



1.7 







Total 



3,970 



246 



7.6 



.2 



178 



15 



6.8 



2.2 







South: 

 Softwoods 



6,486 

 3,773 



16 



740 



16.8 

 5.0 



3.2 

 .6 



120 

 86 



6 



12 



1.5 

 6.0 



1.8 



Hardwoods 



1.6 



Total 



10,259 



756 



21.8 



3.8 



206 



18 



7.5 



3.4 







Rocky Mountain: 

 Softwoods 



3,604 

 17 



131 



(') 



.2 



(') 



.9 



18 

 2 





.2 



(') 



.1 



Hardwoods.. 















Total 



3,621 



131 



.2 



.9 



20 





.2 



.1 









Pacific Coast: 



Softwoods 



Hardwoods ... 



16,155 

 128 



4,784 



0) 



3.6 

 .5 



4.5 



61 



(■) 



7 



.5 



(') 



6.2 











Total, 



16,283 



4,784 



4.1 



4.5 



61 



7 



.5 



6.2 







All Regions: 



Softwoods 



Hardwoods . 



27,335 

 6,798 



4,932 

 985 



24.5 

 9.2 



8.7 

 .7 



239 



226 



14 

 26 



2.6 

 12.4 



8.6 

 3.3 







Total 



34,133 



5,917 



33.7 



9.4 



465 



40 



15.0 



11.9 



Negligible. 



