Pulpwood Production in the North-Central Region, 2005

Newtown Square

2007

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Pulpwood production in the Lake States (Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) remained at 9.8 million cords in 2005, with 90 percent of that total from roundwood and 10 percent from the residue of wood-using mills. Aspen remained the dominant species harvested for pulpwood with 3.6 million cords or 40 percent of the total roundwood. From 2004 to 2005, softwood roundwood production increased by nearly 6 percent while hardwood roundwood production decreased by 1 percent. In 2005, 29 wood-pulp and 15 particleboard mills in the Lake States acquired 10.3 million cords of pulpwood, and increase of less than 1 percent from 2004. Pulpwood production in the Central States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri) decreased by 2 percent, from 484 thousand cords in 2004 to 472 thousand cords in 2005. The Plains States (Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota) produced 113 thousand cords of pulpwood from roundwood and mill residues, only 3 thousand fewer cords than in 2004.