ie* United States @ ;;Of hern P Forest Service Southern Forest Produc Experiment Station
New Orleans, Louisiana
Resource Bulletin SO-138 Dennis M. May
Southern Pu pwood Production, 1986
Dennis M. May
Southern Forest Experiment Station New Orleans, Louisiana and
Southeastern Forest Experiment Station Asheville, North Carolina
of the
Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
in cooperation with the
American Pulpwood Association
June 1988
Southern Pulpwood Production, 1986
Dennis M. May
Table I.-- In this publication are presented the findings of a 100-percent canvass of all wood-using pulpmills drawing round- State Pulpwood Change wood or wood residues from 12 Southern States (fig. 1). Canvass data are Thousand cords Percent compiled annually and analyzed on an alternating basis by personnel of the Alabama Forest Inventory and Analysis Units of Arkansas Florida the Southern and Southeas tern Forest Georgia Experiment Stations. All production Louisiana figures are reported in standard cords. Mississippi When necessary, pulpwood production data North Carolina for mills reporting in nonstandard units Oklahoma South Carolina are converted to standard cords using Tennessee regional conversion factors, Texas Virginia PULPWOOD All States Fueled by increased competitiive- ness, the result of a devalued American 1 dollar, lower interest rates, and recent Colurnn data may not add due to rounding. mill improvements, domestic pulp and paper products experienced a resurgence in demand in 1986. As expected, this resurgence had consequential effects on the demand for pulping fiber. In the South, pulpwood production climbed 6 Table 2.--Pulpwood production in the Southeast and Midsouth. 1986 percent above the 1985 level to top 60 Region million cords for the first time (table and All 1). Both regions in the South, Midsouth source of wood species Softwo& HardvOOd and Southeast, experienced a recovery in ------Stand4 cords------pulpwood production with respective gains of 9 and 4 percent in 1986. Southeast However, the Midsouth contributed 7 Romdwd 19,467,269 14,064,687 5,402,582 percent more to the 1986 production than Residues 8,664,839 7,141,875 1.522.964 did the Southeast (table 21, The State Total 28,132,108 21,205,562 6,925,546 of Georgia was the leading producer of pulpwood in 1986. Alabama ranked a Eaidsouth Roundwood close second, and Mississippi, with a Residues major increase in production, ranked third. Collectively, these three States Total supplied over 40 percent of the total Entire South Roudwd 40,439.843 27,115,068 13,324,775 production. Residues 20,149,920 15,567,714 4,582,206 Softwoods continued to be the major source of pulpwood, comprising '70 I percent of the total production in States of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 1986. The production of softwood was and Virginia. 2 split equally between the Midsouth and States of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoaa, Southeast regions. In contrast, the Tennessee, and Texas. 1 Table 3.--Roundwood production in the South, by State and species' group, 1986 and 1985
1986 1985 Change from A1 1 A1 l State? 1985 species Softwood Hardwood species Softwood Hardwood
Percent
Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia I All States 9 40,439.9 27,115.1 13,324.8 37.217.9 25,230.8 11,987.0
Row and column data may not add due to rounding.
Midsouth was the major supplier of almost half the total roundwood harvest hardwood pulpwood, furnishing over 60 in 1986. The top three roundwood pro- percent of the total hardwood produc- ducing States also contained over half tion. Both roundwood and wood residues the 114 counties in the South that contributed to the 1986 pulpwood pro- harvested in excess of 100,000 cords of duction record. Roundwood, however, was roundwood each (Appendix tables A1-A12, the leading form of pulping fiber, Appendix figures ~1-~6).Once again, outproducing wood residues by 2 to 1. Florida' s Taylor county was the leading
Table 4.--Roundwood production in the South, by State Roundwood and species' mup, 1986 In line with the increase in All pulpwood production, Southern roundwood State species softwood Hardwood production increased 9 percent in 1986 (table 3). This gain in roundwood accounted for 89 percent of the increase Alabwa in pulpwood production in 1986. Round- Arkansas wood harvests in the Midsouth and Florida Southeast increased by 10 and 7 percent, Georgia Louisiana respectively, in response to the Mississippi heightened demand for pulpwood. How- North Carolina Oklahoma ever, the Midsouth still supplied the South Carolina majority of the roundwood harvest (table Tennessee Texas 2) Virginia The top three roundwood producing 1 States were Alabama, Georgia, and All States
Mississippi, in this order (table 4). I Together, these three States supplied Column data may not add due to rounding. producer of roundwood, with a harvest in 5). This relatively small increase can excess of 335,008 cords, be attributed to a 3-percent decline in Softwoods were also the major Southeast wood residue production. Wood source of roundwood, comprising two- residue production increased 6 percent thirds of the total roundwood harvest in in the Midsouth in 1986. The Midsouth 1986, However, as a result of the was also responsible for the majority of increased acceptance of hardwoods as a the wood residue production in 1986 source of pulping fiber, hardwood har- (table 2). The three leading States, vests increased more than softwood ranked in the order of production, were harvests in 1986. The hardwood harvest Georgia, Arkansas, and Alabama. These increased by 11 percent, while that of three States collectively accounted for softwoods only increased by 7 percent, 41 percent of all residue production. This allowed hardwoods to account for As with roundwood production, over 40 percent of the total increase in softwoods comprised the predominant roundwood in 1986. The Southeast was proportion of the wood residue produc- the leading supplier of softwood round- tion, accounting for three-quarters of wood, while the Midsouth supplied most the 1986 production. However, as with of the hardwood roundwood. At the State roundwood, the hardwoods have been level, Georgia harvested the most soft- seeing increased acceptance. In 1986, wood roundwood and Alabama harvested the hardwood residue production increased 5 most hardwood roundwood. percent, in comparison to the 1-percent increase for softwood residues. As a Wood Residues result, hardwood residues accounted for 60 percent of the increase in wood In contrast to the 9 percent rise residues in 1986. The Midsouth contin- in roundwood, wood residue production ued to be the leading producer of hard- only increased 2 percent in 1986 (table wood, furnishing twice the amount of
Table 5.--Southern output of wood residues for pulp manufacture, by State and species' group, 1986 and 1985
1986 1985 Change from A1 1 A1 1 State 1985 species Softwood Hardwood species Softwood Hardwood
Percent ...... Thousand cords------
Alabama 7 Arkansas 9 Florida -8 Georgia - 7 Louisiana 18 Mississippi 20 North Carolina 3 0k.l ahoma 20 South Carolina 5 Tennessee. - 3 0 Texas - 15 Virginia -5 1 All States 2
1 Row and column data may not add due to rounding. Table 6.--Southern output of wood residues for pulp manufacture, by State and type of residue, 1986
1 Chips Other residues
All All All State types species of twaod Hardwood species Softwood Hardwood
Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia 2 All States
1 Veneer cores, pole and piling trim, cull material, sawdust, and secondary residues. 2 Row and column data may not add due to rounding. hardwood residues as the Southeast. The to 119,825 tons per day (table 7). Midsouth also produced the majority of Alabama and Georgia led the South in the the softwood residues. Arkansas was the number of mills operating, with 15 mills leading producer of hardwood residues, each. However, Georgia led in pulping while Georgia led in softwood residue capacity by an 11 percent margin over production. Alabama. In addition, five pulpmills Chips continued to be the predom- from outside the Southern region were inant form of wood residues produced, also drawing wood from the South (table accotrnting for 99 percent of the total 81 * wood residue production in 1986 (table mmDS 6). The dominance of chips was enhanced by a 3-percent increase in chip produc- In the 10-year period from 1977 to tion and a 36-percent decline in the 1986, pulping capacity in the South production of other residues in 1986. increased from 100,894 to 119,825 tons Softwood chips accounted for three- per day, In the same time period, the quarters of the 1986 chip production. number of pulpmills decreased from 113 to 105. This simultaneous rise in capacity and drop in mills is a testi- MILLS mony to the increasing efficiency of existing mills as a result of recent In 1986, 105 Southern pulpmills mill improvements and modernization. To were operating and drawing wood from the meet the new demmd created by the 12 Southern States (fig. 21, Although 19-percent increase in pulping capacity, the number of mills has remained the Southern pulpwood production climbed 24 same as in 1985, pulping capacity fell percent in the 10-year period (fig. 3). Ml LL CAPACITY (TONS PER DAY) LESS THAN 250 * 250 TO 499 500 TO 999 m !,ow TO 1,499 A 1,500 OR MORE
Figure 2.0-1986 capacity of Southern pulpmills operating and drawing wood from the 12 Southern States. Numerals are coded to table 7. Table 7.--
Pulping capacity, 24 hours
Map Groundwood Soda Location code Company A1 1 Sulfate and other Semi- and processes mechanical chemical sulfita
ALABAMA Clai borne Alabama River Pulp Company Jackson Boise Cascade Paper Group Courtland Champion International Corporation Brewton Container Corporation of America Mobile OAF Corporation Mahrt Georgia Kraft Company. Alabama Div. Demopolis Gulf States Paper Corporation Selma Hammarmill Paper Company Mobile International Papar Company Naheola James River Corporation Coosa Pines Kimberly-Clark Corporation Pine Hill McMillan Bloedel, Inc. S tevenson Mead Paperboard Mobile Scott Paper Company Montgomery Union Camp Corporation
Total
ARKANSAS Crosset Georgia Pacific Corporation Morril ton Green Bay Packaging, Inc. Camden International Paper Company Pine Bluff International Paper Company Pine Bluff Mid-America Packaging, Inc. Ashdown Nekoosa Papers. Inc. McGehee Potlatch Corporation Little Rock Superwood Corporation
Total
FLORIDA 1ro1.y The Buckeye Cellulose Corporation cantoment Champion International Corporation Palatka Georgia Pacific Corporation Fernandina Beach Itt Rayonier, Inc. Pernmdina Beach Jafferson Smurfit Corporation Jacksonville Jefferson Smurfit Corporation Port St. Joe St. Joe Paper Company Blountstown Southeastern Fiber Board Panama City Southwest Forest Industries. Inc.
Total
GEORGIA Macon (33) Armstrong World Industries 927 - - 927 - - - - Augusta (31) Wugusta Newsprint Cospany 1,200 - - 1.200 - - - - Brunswick (35) Brunewick Pulp and Paper 1,820 1.820 ------Oglethorpe (36) The Buckcge Cellulose Corporation 860 860 ------Augusta (371 Federal Paper Board Company 1,000 600 400 - - - - Macon (38) Oeorgia Kraft Company. Mead Div. 1,500 1,500 ------Rome (39) Georgia Kraft Company, Krannert Div. 2.100 2.100 ------Table 7.--9outhbrn pulpmills, by process and capacity, 1986--Continued
2 Pulping capacity. 24 hours 1 Map Groundwood Soda ~ocaation code Company Ell 3, Sulfate and other Semi- and processes mechanical chemical sulfite
St. MsrYs Gilman Paper Co., St. Harys Kraft Div. Cedar Springs Great Southern Paper Companp Riceboro Interstate Paper Corporation Jeaup I.T.T. Rayonier. Inc. Valdoata Owens-Illinois. Forest Products Div. Dublin Southeast Paper Hfg. Company port Wsntworth Stone Container Savannah Union Camp Corporation
Total
LOUISIANA ~eRidde r (48) Boise Cascade Corporation st. Franci svi lle (49) Crown Zellerbach Corporation st. Francisville (50) Crown Zellerbach Corporation Bogalusa (511 Gaylord Container Corporation port sudson (52) Georgia-Pacific Corporation Bast rop (53) International Paper Companp ~ineville (54) International Paper Company an sf ield (55 ) International Paper Company west Monroe (56 Manville Forest Products Corporation Hodge (57) Stone Container Corporation Campti (58 Willamette Industries, Inc.
Total MISSISSIPPI moss Point (59) International Paper Company Natchez (60) International Paper Company Vi-cksburg (61) International Paper Company Honti cello (62) Georgia Pacific corporation Mew Augusta (63) Leaf River Forest Products Laure 1 (64) Masonite Corporation Columbus (65) Weyerhaeuaer Company
Total
NORTH CAROLINA Roaring River Abitibi--Price Corporation Goldsboro Celotex Corporation Can ton Champion International Corporation Roanoke Rapids Champion International Corporation Ri egelwood Federal Paper Board Company, Inc. Conwa y Oeorgia-Pacific Corporation Wew Bern Weyerhaeuser Company Plymouth Weyerhaeuser Company
Total
OKLAHOMA Pryor (74) Georgia Pacific Corporation Broken Bow (75) Weyerhaeuser Company Valli ant (76) Weyerhaeuser Company
Total Tabla 7.-- --Continued
Map aroundwood Soda Location cade All Sulfate and ather Seri- and processes mechanical chemical sulfite
SOUTH CAROLINA Catawba Bo~at~rsCarolina Corporation Catawba Cstawba Newsprint Company Georgetown International Paper Companp Marion Masondte Corporation Hartsville Sonoco Products Company Florence Stone Container Corporation Eastover Union Camp Corporation Charleston Weatvaco Corporation
Total 8,478 6,938 1.160 380
TENNESSEE Calhoun (85) Bowaters Southern Paper Corporation 2.590 690 1.900 - .. - - New Johnsonvflle (86) Inland Container Corporation 400 - - - - 400 - - Kingsport (87) Head Paper 325 - - - - .. - 325 Knoxville (88) Tamko Asphalt Products, Inc. 180 - - 180 - - - - Counce (89) Tennessee River Pulp and Paper Company 1,700 1.700 ------
Total
TEXAS Houston (90) Champion International Corporation 1,850 65C 1,200 - - Lufkin (91) Champion International Corporation 1,200 400 800 - - - - Pasadena (92) Champion Internationl Corporation 600 600 ------Orange (93) Inland Container Corporation 1,200 1,200 - - * - - - Texsr kana (94) International Paper Company 1,200 1.200 - - - -4 - - Dib0ll (95) Temple-EasTex. Inc. 1.430 - - 1,430 - - - - Evadale (96) Tcmple-EasTex. Ine. 1,500 1,500 ------
Total
VIRGINIA Ashland Bear Island Paper Company West Point Chesapeake Corporation Jarratt Georgia Pacific Corporation Big Island Owens-Illfnoir, Forest Products Div. Hopewell Stone Container Corporation Franklin Union Camp Corporation Rivervflle Virginia Fiber Corporetion Covington Vestvaco Corporation Danville Wood Piber Industries
Total
Total South 119.825 93.939 18,922 6.189 775
A Corresponds to numbers at locations on mill capacity map, fig 2. 2 Southern Pulp and Paper Directory, Vol. 49, No. 11 (October 1986): and other sources. Table 8.--Other mills using southern pulpwood in 1986, by process and capacite
1 Pulping capacity, 24 hours
Groundwood Soda Location Company A1 1 Sulfate and other Semi- and processes mechanical chemical sulfite
------Tons------KENTUCKY wickliffe Westvaco Corporation 700 700 ------Hawesville Willamette Industries 1010 - - - - 1010 - - MARYLAND ~uke Westvaco Corporation 907 907 ------PENNSYLVANIA Roaring Springs Appleton Papers, Inc. 180 180 ------spring Grove P.H. Glatfelter Company 550 550 ------
southern Pulp and Paper Directory, VO~.49, NO. 11 (October 1986); and other sources.
0 a 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 YEAR O WOOD RESIDUES 61 HARDWOOD ROUNDWOOD SOFTWOOD ROUNDWOOD
Figure 3.--1977-86 Southern pulpwood production. In response to the increased because wood residue supplies are not demand for pulpwood, roundwood harvests unlimited. Wood residue supplies are climbed 26 percent and accounted for 70 fixed by the level of activity in the percent of the total increase in pulp- primary wood processing industry in any wood production over the 10-year given year. period. Wood residues, which increased Over the 1977-86 period, softwoods 20 percent over this period, supplied have been the predominant source of the remainder. However, since 1983, Southern pulpwood ( fig. 4) . However, wood residue production has stabilized the proportion of softwoods to total at approximately 20 million cords (fig. production has fallen from 77 percent in 3). This leveling off in the utiliza- 1977 to 70 percent in 1986. The tion of wood residues is expected availability of hardwood fiber and advances in pulping technology have
1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 YEAR S0FTWOOO a HARDWOOD
Figure 4.--1977-86 Southern pulpwood production by species group. resulted in increasing acceptance of If these trends hold, any future hardwoods as a source of pulping fiber. increases in Southern pulping capacity As a result, hardwoods have been will likely be met by increased pro- captaring increasingly larger duction of roundwood, because wood proportions of the total pulpwood residue production is limited. Addi- harvest. Over the 10-year period, tionally, hardwoods should continue to hardwood production increased by 60 command a larger share of the total percent, more than four times the pulpwood furnish as long as the hardwood increase experienced by softwoods, As a resource remains in abundant supply and consequence, the increased hardwood technology continues to make headway harvest was responsible for 57 percent into improved hardwood utilization. of the total increase in pulpwood production.
Appendix
Table A-1.--Round pulpwood production in Alabama, 1986
1 A1 1 County species Softwood Hardwood
Autauga
Baldwin Barbour Bibb Blount Bullock Butler
Calhoun Chambers Cherokee Chilton Choctaw Clarke Clay Cleburne Coffee Colbert Conecuh coosa Covington Crenshaw Cullman Table A-1.--Round pulpwood production in Alabama, 1986--Continuad
1 A11 County species Softwood Hardwood
------Standard cords-
Dale Dallas De Kalb
Elmore Escambia Etowah
Fayette Franklin
Geneva Greene
Hale Henry Houston
Jackson Jefferson
Lamar Lauderdale Lawrence Lee Limestone Lowndes
Macon Madison Marengo Marion Marshall Mobile Monroe Montgomery Morgan
Perry Pickens Pike
Randolph Russell
St. Glair Shelby Sumter Table A-1.-- --Cantinuad
County species dof twood Hardwood
Talladega Tallapoosa Tuscaloosa
Walker Washington Wilcox Winston
All counties
I Counties with no pulpwood production are omitted.
Table A-2.--Round pulpwood production in Arkansas. 1986
A1 1 county species of twood Hardwood - ----..------Standard cords------Arkansas 302 3 300 Ashley 119,505 52,948 66,556
Baxter Benton Boone Bradley
Calhoun Carroll Chicot Clark Clay Cleburne Cleveland Columbia Conway Craighead Crawf ord Cross
Dallas Desha Drew
Faulkner Frank1 in Ful ton
Garland Grant Greene Table b-2.--Round pulpwood production in Arkansas, 1986--continued
County spaciar Softwood Hardwood
Hempstead Hot Spring
Howard
Independence
Jackson Jefferson Johnson
Lafayette Lincoln Little River Logan Lonoke
Miller Montgomery
Nevada Newton
Ouachi ta
Perry Phillips Pike Poinsett Polk Pope Prairie Pulaski
St. Francis Saline Scott Sebastian Sevier
Union
Van Buren
Washington White Woodruff
Yell
All counties
1 Counties with no pulpwood production are omitted. Table A-3.--Round pulpwood production in Florida. 1986
1 A1l county species Softwood Hardwood
------Standard cords------
Baker Bay Bradford Brevard
Calhoun Citrus Clay Columbia
Dixie Duval
Escambia
Flagler Franklin
Gadsden Gilchrist Glades Gulf
Hami 1ton Hendry Hernando Holmes
Indian River
Jackson Jefferson Laf ayette Lake Leon Levy Liberty
Madison Manatee Marion
Nassau
Okaloosa Okeechobee Orange Osceola Table A-3.--Round pulpwood production in Florida, 1986--Continued
1 AS 1 County species Softwood Hardwood
------Standard cords------
Pasco Polk Pu tnam
St. Johns St. Lucie
Santa Rosa Sumter Suwannee
Taylor
Union
Volusia
Wakulla Well ton Washington
All counties
I Counties with no pulpwood production are omitted.
Table A-4.- -Round pulpwood production in Georgia. 1986
1 A1 1 County species Softwood Hardwood
------Standard cords------
Appling Atkinson
Bacon Baker Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow Ben Hill Berrien Bibb Bleckley Brantley Tabla A-4.-- --eaneiaued
County species of twood Hardwood
-----..-----..-Standard cords------
Brooks 23,181 22,853 3213 Bryan 117,261 83,372 33,889 Bulloch 123,548 110,840 12,708 Burke 105,456 47,579 57,877 Butts 29.885 28,669 1,216
Calhoun Camden Candler Carroll Catoosa Char1 ton Chatham Chattahoochee Chat tooga Cherokee Clarke Clay Clinch cobb Coffee Colqui tt Columbia Cook Cowe ta Crawf ord Crisp
Dade Dawson Decatur De Kalb Dodge Dooly Dougherty Douglas
Early Echols Ef f ingham Elbert Emanue 1 Evans
Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Franklin Ful ton Al f speciae Softwood Hardwood
Cilrner Clascock G l gnn Gordon Crady Creene Guinne tt
Habersham Hal 1 Hancoek Waralson Harris Hart Heard Henry Houston
Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones
Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln Long Lswndes Lumpkin
Macon Madison Marion Meriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan 1 nl J. county ~rpecies Sof tw6od Hardwood
---..------Standard cords------
Murray 47,694 47,382 3 12 Muscogee 1,272 1,208 6 4
Newton 4,057 4,057 0
Oconee Oglethorpe
Paulding Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Pu tnam
Quitman 42,515 32,896 9,619
Rabun Randolph Richmond
Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter
Talbot Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tif t Toombs Towns Treutlen T roup Turner Twiggs
Union Upson nx I species Sof twood H~rdwood
Walker WaP ton Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitf ield Wilcox Wi Lkes Wilkinson Worth
All counties 7,125.514 5,883.737 1,241,777
I Counties with no pulpwood production are omitted.
Table A-5.--Round pulpwood production in Louisiana, 1986
I A1 1 Parish species Softwood Hardwood
------Standard cords------
Acadia 3,704 3,689 15 Allen 84,015 79,748 4,267 Ascension 2,298 67 5 1.623 Wvoyelles 16,174 1,435 14.739
Beauregard Bienville Bossier
East Baton Rouge 3,510 1,718 1,792 East Carroll 10,291 0 10,291 East Feifciana 18,712 9,147 9,565 Evangeline 29,015 27,255 1,760
Franklin 7,523 466 7,057
Grant 99,014 79,089 19,926 Table A-5.--Round pulpwood production in Louisiana, 1986--continuad
1 A1 1 Pariah apecf es Softwood Hardwood
Iberia Xberville
Jackson Jefferson Jefferson Davis
Laf ayette La Salle Lincoln Livingston
Madison Morehouse
Natchitoches
Ouachita
Pointe Coupee
Rapides Red River Richland
Sabine st. Charles St. Helena St. James st. Landry St. Martin St. Tammany
Tangipahoa Tensas
Union
Vermilion Vernon
Washington Webster West Baton Rouge West Carroll West Feliciana Winn
All parishes
-- 1 Parishes with no pulpwood production are omitted. Table A-6.--Round pulpwood production in Mississippi, 1986
1 All County species Softwood Hardwood
------Standard cords--
Adams Alcorn Ami te Attala
Benton Bolivar
Calhoun Carroll Chickasaw Choctaw Claiborne Clarke Clay Coahoma Copiah Covington
Forrest Franklin
George Greene Grenada
Hancock Harrison Hinds Holmes Humphreys
I ssaquena I tawamba
Jackson Jasper Jefferson Jefferson Davis Jones
Kemper
Lafayette Lamar Lauderdale Lawrence Leake Tabla A-6.--Round pulpwood production in Mississippi. 1986--Continuad
------1 A1 1 County specla8 Softwood Hardwood
---a-m------Standard cords------
Lee 39,992 32,944 7,047 Lef lore 2,981 1,036 1,945 Lincoln 69,777 38,927 30,850 Lowndes 7,055 2,591 4,464
Madison Marion Marshall Monroe Montgomery
Neshoba Newton Noxubee
Oktibbeha
Panola Pearl River Perry Pike Pontotoc Prentiss
Quitman
Scott Sharkey Simpson Smith Stone Sunflower
Tallahatchie Tate Tippah Tishomingo Tunica
Union
Walthall Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wilkinson Winston
Yalobusha Yazoo
All counties
counties with no pulpwood production are omitted. Table A-?.--Round pulpwood production in North Carolina, 1986
1 A1 1 County species Sof twoad Hardwood
------Standard cords------
Alamance Alexander A1 leghany Anson
Beaufort Bertie Bladen Brunswick Buncombe Burke
Cabarrus Caldwell Camden Carteret Caswell Catawba Chatham Cherokee Chowan Clay Cleveland Columbus Craven Cumberland Curri tuck
Dare Davidson Davie Duplin Durham
Edgecombe
Forsyth Franklin
Gaston Gates Graham Granville Greene Guilf ord
Halifax Harne tt Haywood Henderson Table A-?.--Round pulpwood production in North Carolina, 1986 --Continuad
1 A1 l Coun tp species Softwood Hardwood
Hertford Hoke Hyde
Iredell
Jackson Johnston Jones
Lee Lenoir Lincoln
Macon Madison Martin Mecklenburg Mitchell Montgomery Moore
Nash New Hanover Northampton
Onslow Orange
Pamlico Pasquotank Pender Perquimans Person Pitt Polk
Randolph Richmond Robeson Rockingham Rowan Rutherford
Sampson Scotland Stanly Table A-7.--Round pulpwood production in North Carolina, 1986 --Continued
1 A11 County spec%*a Softwood Hardwood
------.... Standard cords------Stokes 2,481 4 64 2,017 Surry 4,219 9 44 3,275 Swain 7 0 2 491 2 11
Transylvania Tyrrell
Union
Vance
Wake Warren Washington Wayne Wilkes Wilson
Yadkin Yancey
All counties
Counties with no pulpwood production are omitted.
Table A-8.--Round pulpwood production in Oklahoma. 1986
1 A1 1 County species Softwood Hardwood
..------Standard cords------
Choctaw 13,015 4,277 8.738
Latimer Le Flore
Pushmataha 37,305 20.016 17,289
All counties 104,261 55,501 48,761
Counties with no pulpwood production are omitted, Table A-9.--Round pulpwood production in South Carolina, 1986
All county species Softwood Hardwood
---..------..--Standard cords------
Abbevf lie Af ken Allendale Anderson
Bamberg Barnwell Beauf ort Berkeley
ealhoun Charleston Cherokee Chester Chesterfield Clarendon Colleton
Darlington Dillon Dorchester
Edgef ield
Fairf ield Florence
Georgetown Greenville Greenwood
Hamp ton Horry
Jasper
Kershau
Lancaster Laurens Lee Lexington Table A-9.--Round pulpwood production in South Carolina. 1986--~ontinusd
County species Softwood Hardwood
Marion Narlboro
Newberrp
Oconee Orangeburg
Pickens 38,733 25,345 13,388
Richland 61,737 39,215 22.522
Saluda Spartanburg Sumter
Union 59,616 50,256 9,360
Williamsburg 112,070 77,240 34,830
York 56.892 55,257 1,635
All counties
Counties with no pulpwood production are omitted.
Table A-10.--Round pulpwood production in Tennessee, 1986
1 Al l County species Softwood Hardwood
Standard cords------
Anderson
Benton Bledsoe Blount Bradley
Carroll Carter Chester Claiborne Clay Cocke Coffee Cumberland Table A-10.--Round pulpwood production in Tennessee. 1986 --Continued
1 A11 county species Softwood Hardwood
Decatur 37,798 17,534 20,264
Fayette Fentress Franklin
Giles Crainger Greene Grundy
Hamblen Hamil ton Hancock Hardeman Hardin Hawkins Haywood Henderson Henry Hickman Houston Humphreys
Jackson Jefferson Johnson
Knox 3,028 3,028 0
Lawrence Lewis Loudon
McMinn McNai ry
Madison Marion Marshal 1 Maury Meigs Monroe Montgomery Morgan
Overton 3,500 3,500 0
Perry Polk Putnam Table A-10.--Round pulpwood production in Tennes~er, 1986 --Continu@&
t A11 County species Sot twood Hardwood
Rhea Roane
Scott Sequatchie Sevier Shelby Stewart Sull ivan
Unicoi
Van Buren
Warren Washington Wayne Weakley White
All counties
1 Counties with no pulpwood production are omitted.
Table A-11.--Round pulpwood production in Texas, 1986
1 A1 1 County species Softwood Hardwood
Anderson Angelina
Bowie
Camp Cass Chambers Cherokee
Grew Grimes
Hardin Harris Table A-I.$.--Ra^rtnd pulpwood production in Texas, 1986 --Continued
1 A1 1 County species Softwood Hardwood
Harrison Henderson Houston
Jasper Jefferson
Liberty Llano
Marion Montgomery Morris
Nacogdoches Newton
Orange
Panola Polk
Red River Rusk
Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto Shelby Smith
Titus Trinity Tyler
Upshur
Walker
All counties
I Counties with no pulpwood production are omitted. Table A-12.--Round pulpwood production in Virginia, 1986
All County species Softwood Hardwood
------Standard cords------
Accornack Albemarle A1 leghany Amelia Amherst Appomattox Augusta
Bath Bedf ord Bland Botetourt Brunswick Buchanan Buckingham
Campbell Caroline Carroll Charles City Charlotte Chesapeake Chesterfield Craig Culpeper Cumberland
Dinwiddie
Essex
Fairf ax Fauquier Floyd Fluvanna Franklin Frederick
Gloucester Goochland Greensville Halifax Hanover Henrico Henry Highland Tabla A-12.--Round pulpwood production in Virginia, 1986 --Continued
A A1 1 county apecia8 Softwood Hardwood
Isle of Wight
James City
King and Queen King George King William
Lancaster Lee Loudoun Louisa Lunenburg
Madison Mathews Mecklenburg Middlesex
Nelson New Kent Newport News Northamp ton ~orthumberland Nottoway
Orange
Page Patrick Pittsylvania Powhat an Prince Edward Prince George Prince William Pul aski
Rappahannock Richmond Roanoke Rockbridge Rockingham Russell Table A-12.--Round pulpwood production in Virginia, 1986 --Continued
1 A11 county rpacies Softwood Hardwood
------&----Standard cords-
Scott 29,019 0 Shenandoah 3.129 I,718 Smyth 5,158 0 Southampton 74.549 14,330 Spotsylvania 43,220 37,016 Staff ord 7,103 6,050 Suf folk 24.345 9.088 Surry 21,033 5,784 Sussex 32.389 9,438
Virginia Beach 1,499 1,132 3 67
Warren Washington Westmoreland Wise Wy the
York 1,899 997 902
All counties 2,435,025 1,076,046 1,358.979
Counties with no pulpwood production are omitted.
CORDS HARVESTED / THOUSAND ACRES OF TIMBERLAND
Figure A-5.--1986 softwood roundwood harvest,ing intensity.
May, Dennis M . Southern pulpwood production, 1986. Resour. Bull. 550-138. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station, 1988. 40 p.
In 1986, Southern pulpwood production increased 6 percent, to 60.6 million cords; roundwood production increased 9 percent, to 40.4 million cords ; and wood residue production increased 2 percent, to 20.1 million cords. Since 1977, roundwood production has been increasing while wood residue production has leveled off. Hardwoods have been capturing a larger proportion of the total pulpwood production since 1977. Pulping capacity of the 105 pulpmills operating in 1986 totaled 119,825 tons per day.
Additional key words: pulpmills, roundwood, wood residues.
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