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THE OUTLOOK FOR TIMBER IN THE UNITED STATES 



Table 106. — Average annual harvest of industrial roundwood in the world, by area, 1950-52 and 1967-69 



[Million cubic feet] 





1950-1952 



1967-1969 



Area 



Total 



Soft- 

 woods 



Hard- 

 woods 



Total 



Soft- 

 woods 



Hard- 

 woods 



North America 



11,017 

 1,095 

 6,391 



530 

 1,942 



953 

 6,250 



388 



8,933 

 424 



5,191 



35 



742 



847 



5,402 

 106 



2,083 

 671 



1,201 

 494 



1,201 

 106 

 847 

 282 



14,548 

 1,554 

 8,616 

 1,201 

 3,778 

 1,730 



10,205 

 636 



11,864 



706 



6,179 



177 



1,130 



1,095 



9,039 



318 



2,684 



Latin America.. .. 



847 



Europe. 



Africa. .... .. ... .. 



Asia (except Japan and U.S.S.R.) 



2,436 

 1,024 

 2,648 



Japan . .. _ _ . . . 



636 



U.S.S.R. 



1,165 



Pacific Area . 



318 







World . 



28,566 



21,680 



6,885 



42,266 



30,508 



11,758 







Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Forest Industries and Trade Division, Supply of 

 wood materials for housing. Unasylva 25(2-3-4); 28-52, 1971. 



Hardwood forests in most of the hardwood 

 regions of the world, including the United States, 

 also could support higher levels of harvest in the 

 next several decades. Most of this potential is in 

 the hardwood forests of Southeast Asia, Africa, 

 and Latin America. In many areas availability of 

 capital and the rate of economic development will 

 be important factors in determining future in- 

 creases in hardwood timber supplies. 



POTENTIAL TIMBER SUPPLIES FROM CANADA 



The timber resources of Canada are of special 

 significance to the United States, for both geo- 

 graphic and economic ties make Canada a primary 

 timber supply region for this country. Canada is 

 the leading timber exporting nation in the world, 

 with three-fourths of her exports going to the 

 United States. 



Forest Resources 



Canadian forests include some 588 million acres 

 of forest land suitable and available for timber 

 production (table 107), or 18 percent more area 

 than the commercial timberlands of the United 

 States. Timber volumes on Canada's inventoried 

 nonreserved forest land totaled an estimated 503 

 billion cubic feet of softwoods in 1968 (table 108), 

 some 71 billion cubic feet more than softwood 

 inventories on commercial timberlands in the 

 United States. Canadian forests also included an 

 additional 127 billion cubic feet of hardwoods, 

 about 90 billion cubic feet less than in the United 

 States. 



Production Trends 



Output of both the lumber and pulp and pape r 

 industries in Canada has climbed steadily in recent 



Table 107. — Forest land areas in Canada, by Province, 1967 

 [Thousand acres] 



Province 



Total 



Suitable 



for regular 



harvest 



Not suitable 



for regular 



harvest 



Reserved 



Atlantic '. __ 



56,685 

 171,827 

 120,534 

 132,712 

 138,076 

 176,512 



47,723 

 121,845 

 115,471 

 119,608 

 134,838 



48,808 



8,311 



49,920 



105 



4,979 



651 



Quebec. . . . 



62 



Ontario . . 



4,958 



Prairie 2 .. . . 



8,125 



British Columbia. _ 



3,238 



Northwest Territories and Yukon.. 



127,704 









Total 



796,346 



588,293 



191,019 



17,034 







1 Includes Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova 

 Scotia, and New Brunswick. 



2 Includes Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. 



Source: Manning, Glenn H., and H. Rae Grinnell. 

 Forest resources and utilization in Canada to the year WOO. 

 Canadian Forestry Serv. Publ. 1304, 80 p. Ottawa, Ont. 

 1971. 



