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TIMBER RESOURCES FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE 



miscellaneous products were likewise obtained 

 from plant residues. 



More Timber Harvested for Saw Logs 

 Than for All Other Products Combined 



Saw logs for lumber, timbers, and sawn ties 

 comprised 55 percent of all the roundwood utilized 

 in 1952 (table 94). Fuelwood, pulpwood, and 

 veneer logs and bolts came next in order, with 18, 

 16, and 4 percent, respectively. Together these 

 4 products accounted for almost 94 percent of the 

 total. They also account for 94 percent of the 

 output from growing stock, although here fuel- 

 wood drops to third place because much of it is 

 obtained from dead or cull trees. 



The 1952 saw-log output, representing 39.5 

 billion board-feet of lumber, was the greatest in 

 25 years (fig. 61). The 1952 pulpwood output of 

 25 million cords equaled the alltime record 

 reached in 1951. Pulpwood output has been 



rising in all sections of the United States, but 

 particularly in the South, where it 's now about 

 half as large as the saw-log output. The output 

 of veneer logs and bolts was likewise at an alltime 

 record. In contrast, the fuelwood trend is sharply 

 downward. 



Timber Cut 



Timber products output serves as a measure of 

 the importance of the forest products industries 

 in national industrial activity. For appraising 

 the long-range timber supply situation, however, 

 we need to translate output statistics into terms 

 of timber cut. 



Timber cut as used here includes not only the 

 roundwood volume of timber products cut from 

 growing-stock inventory (table 94) but also the 

 volume of growing stock cut, knocked down, or 

 otherwise killed in logging and left unused in the 

 woods (logging residues) .^* 



^* Timber cut is the equivalent of commodity drain in 

 the 1945 Reappraisal. 



1899 1905 '10 



'15 '20 '25 '30 '35 '40 '45 '50 

 YEAR 



'55 



SOURCE: Bureau of the Census, U.S 



. Department of Commerce and Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture 



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Figure 61 



