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In 2001, roundwood output from Virginias forests remained stable at 492 million cubic feet. Mill byproducts generated from primary manufacturers totaled 181 million cubic feet, 9 percent more than in 1999. Seventy-five percent of the plant residues were used primarily for fuel and fiber products. Saw logs were the leading roundwood product at 252 million cubic feet; pulpwood ranked second at 170 million cubic feet; composite panels were third at 48 million cubic feet. The number of primary processing plants decreased from 290 in 1999 to 248 in 2001. Total receipts increased 1 percent to 492 million cubic feet.
S2The availability of timber resources plays an important part in the location decision for the primary wood-using industrieslumber, particleboard, and woodpulp. This report contains the latest Forest Service statistics for the State of West Virginia. These data are based on a sampling scheme designed to get reasonable accurate data for areas smaller than the entire State. They are current as of January 1961.S3.
West Virginia's wood products manufacturing industry employs 9,400 workers with an output of more than $2.0 billion (NAICS 321-Wood product manufacturing, and NAICS 322-Paper manufacturing) (U.S. Census Bureau 2007). Given the economic importance of West Virginia's wood industry, the purpose of this bulletin is to analyze recent forest industry trends in the State and report the results of a detailed study of West Virginia's forest industry, industrial roundwood production, and associated primary mill wood and bark residue in 2007. Such detailed information is necessary for intelligent planning and decisionmaking in wood procurement, economic research, forest resources management, and forest industry development. Likewise, researchers need current forest industry and industrial roundwood information for planning projects.
This report contains the findings of a 2003 canvass of all primary wood-using plants in Virginia, and presents changes in product output and residue use sine 2001. It complements the Forest Inventory and Analysis periodic inventory of volume and removals from the State's timberland.