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Table 108.— Merchantable timber in Canada on 

 inventoried nonreserved forest land, by Province 

 and by softwoods and hardwoods, 1968 l 



[Million cubic feet] 



Province 



British Columbia 2 

 Prairie Provinces.. 



Ontario 



Quebec 



Atlantic Provinces 



Total 



Total 



268, 635 



89, 331 



111,423 



130, 397 



29, 612 



Soft- 

 woods 



261, 313 

 55, 923 

 66, 593 

 96, 954 

 22, 100 



Hard- 

 woods 



7, 322 

 33, 408 

 44, 830 

 33, 443 



7,512 



629, 398 502, 883 



126, 515 



1 Includes 445 million acres of inventoried forest land. 

 Excludes Labrador, Yukon, and Northwest Territories. 



2 Mature timber volumes only. 



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

 Forest resources and utilization in Canada to the year MOV. 

 Dept. of the Environment, Canadian Forestry serv. Fubl. 

 1304, 80 p. Ottawa, Ont. 1971. 



decades, particularly following World War II. 

 Between 1950 and 1971 annual production of 

 lumber and paper and board roughly doubled 

 (table 109). Output of plywood and veneer and of 

 woodpulp climbed even more rapidly. 



These increases m output of industrial timber 

 products have been achieved with a much smaller 

 rise in timber cut. Partlv this has been due to a 

 decline in fuelwood production. Partly it reflects 



a substantial improvement in timber utilization 

 practices. In 1968, for example, 26 percent of the 

 raw material used in Canadian pulp mills was 

 wood chips and other residues, compared with only 

 2 percent in 1950. 6 



Production Potentials 



The 1970 timber cut of about 4.3 billion cubic 

 feet in Canada was well below the calculated 

 sustainable allowable cut of 10.7 billion cubic 

 feet (table 110). Most of the unused Canadian 

 timber is in the undeveloped northern parts of 

 the Canadian provinces where utilization will 

 necessarily involve high development costs. Thus 

 it appears unlikelv that a significant portion of 

 the unused allowable cut would be placed on the 

 market at 1970 prices. However, with June 1972 

 cost-price relationships for lumber aDd plywood, 

 and somewhat higher prices for pulp and paper, 

 the British Columbia Council of the Forest Indus- 

 tries has estimated that about 8 billion cubic 

 feet of allowable cut would be economically avail- 

 able (table 110). 



These and related projections of the Canadian 

 Forestry Service indicated that by 2000 production 

 of lumber, pulp, paper, and plywood could be 

 substantially increased over 1970 levels (table 

 111). These Canadian studies also indicate that 



• Manning, Glenn H. The utilization of wood residue 

 in Canada. Canadian Forestry Serv., Forest Econ. Kes. 

 Inst. Ottawa. 1972. 



Table 109 



.-Timber harvest and production of timber products in Canada, by major product, 1950-71 • 



Lnmbez 



Total 



Year I timber 



harvest 



1930.. 

 1951 . . 



1952 . . 

 1953 .. 

 1954.. 



1955.. 

 1956. 

 1957.. 

 1958. 

 1959.. 



1960. 

 1961. 

 1962. 

 1963. 

 1964. 



1965. 

 1966. 

 1967. 

 1968. 

 1969. 



1970. 

 1971. 



Total 



Billion 



cu.ft. 

 3.0 

 3.4 

 3.2 

 3.1 

 3.1 



3.3 

 3.5 

 3.2 

 2.9 

 3.2 



3.3 

 3.2 

 3.3 

 3.5 

 3.6 



3.7 

 3.8 

 3.8 

 4.0 

 4.3 



4.3 

 NA 



Soft- 

 wood 



Hard- 

 wood 



Billion 



board 

 feet 

 6.6 

 6.9 

 6.8 

 7.3 

 7.2 



7.9 

 7.7 

 7.1 

 7.2 

 7.6 



8.0 

 8.2 

 8.8 

 9.8 

 10.3 



ia 8 



10.6 

 10.3 

 11.4 

 11.5 



11.3 

 12.8 



Billion 

 board 

 feet 

 6.1 

 6.4 

 6.3 

 6.8 

 6.8 



7.5 

 7.3 

 6.7 

 6.8 

 7.2 



7.6 

 7.8 

 8.4 

 9.4 



10.3 

 10.0 

 9.7 

 10.8 

 1L0 



10.8 

 12.3 



Billion 

 board 

 fed 



as 



.5 

 .5 

 .5 

 .4 



.4 

 .4 

 .4 

 .4 

 .4 



.4 

 .4 



.4 

 .4 



Plywood (14-inch basis) 



Total 



Billion 



square 



feet 



as 



.6 

 .6 

 .8 

 .9 



1.2 

 1.3 



1.2 

 1.5 

 1.5 



1.6 

 1.9 

 2.0 

 2.5 

 2.6 



2.7 

 3.0 

 3.1 

 3.3 

 3.4 



3.1 

 3.5 



Soft- 

 wood 



Billion 



square 



feet 



a4 



.5 



.5 

 .6 

 .7 



1.0 

 1.1 

 1.1 

 1.3 

 1.2 



1.4 

 1.6 

 1.7 

 2.1 

 2.2 



2.3 

 2.6 

 2.7 

 2.9 

 3.0 



2.8 

 3.2 



Hard- 

 wood 



Veneer (Mo-inch basis) 



Total 



Billion 



square 



feet 



ai 



.1 

 .1 

 .2 

 .2 



.2 

 .2 

 .1 

 .2 

 .3 



.2 

 .3 

 .3 

 .4 

 .4 



.4 

 .4 

 .4 

 .4 

 .4 



.3 

 .3 



Soft- 

 wood 



Billion 



square 



feet 



a4 



. 5 



.4 



.6 



.5 



.6 



1.3 



.7 



.8 



.8 



.7 

 .7 

 .9 

 1.1 

 .9 



1.4 

 1.9 

 1.8 

 1.9 

 2.3 



2.2 

 NA 



Billion 



square 



feet 



0.2 



.3 



.2 



.3 



.2 



1.1 

 .5 

 .6 

 .6 



.5 

 .6 

 .8 

 .6 



1.0 

 1.5 

 1.4 

 1.5 

 1.9 



1.9 

 NA 



Hard- 

 wood 



Billion 



square 



feet 



a2 



.2 

 .2 

 .3 



Paper and board 



Total 



News- 

 print 



.3 

 NA 



Million 

 tons 

 6.8 

 7.2 

 7.2 

 7.4 

 7.7 



8.0 

 8.5 

 8.3 

 8.1 

 8.5 



8.9 

 9.1 

 9.2 

 9.3 

 10.2 



10.9 

 11.9 

 11.6 

 11.8 

 12.9 



12.8 

 12.4 



Million 

 tons 

 5.3 

 5.5 

 5.7 

 5.8 

 6.0 



6.2 

 6.5 

 6.4 

 6.0 

 6.3 



6.7 

 6.7 

 6.7 

 6.6 

 7.4 



7.8 

 8.5 

 8.2 

 8.2 

 8.9 



8.8 



8.3 



Other 



Million 

 tons 

 1.5 

 1.7 

 1.5 

 1.6 

 1.7 



1.8 

 2.0 

 1.9 

 2.1 

 2.2 



2.2 

 2.4 

 2.5 

 2.7 

 2.8 



3.1 

 3.4 

 3.4 

 3.6 

 4.0 



4.0 



4.1 



Wood- 

 pulp 



Million 

 tons 

 8.5 

 9.3 

 9.0 

 9.1 

 9.7 



10.2 

 10.7 

 10.4 

 10.1 

 10.8 



11.5 

 11.8 

 12.1 

 12.5 

 13.7 



14.6 

 16.0 

 15.9 

 16.8 

 18.6 



18.3 

 17.9 



i Excluding Labrador, Yukon, and Northwest Territories. 

 Sources: 1950-68 texcept woodpulp). Manning, Glenn H-, and H. Rae Grin- 

 nell. Forest resources and utilization in Canada to the year tOOO. Dept. of tne 



Environment, Canadian Forestry Serv. Publ 1304 f*f«™ °f^: 

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