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Timber Processing Capacity and Timber Flow

Managing forests to reduce fire hazard and restore ecosystem function has increased the need for accurate information on timber-milling capacity and the capability of mills to process trees of various sizes. Implementing treatments to restore desired ecological conditions can require removing both larger, more valuable trees, as well as smaller trees with limited value and markets. Quantification of current milling capacity and elucidation of the sizes and types of materials that existing mills are capable of using are key components of financial analyses of timber sales, fire hazard reduction treatments, and ecosystem restoration programs.

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project

• Timber Processing Capacity and Capability: Rio Chama CFLRP (September 2023)

• Timber Processing Capacity and Capability: Southwest Colorado CFLRP (September 2023)

Pacific Coast Temperate Forest Regional Timber Product Flow Analysis

• Pacific Coast Temperate Forest Regional Timber Product Flow Analysis (September 2023)

Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability to Utilize Small-Diameter Timber Within USDA Forest Service, Region Two (Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability of Mills to Utilize Timber By Diameter Size Class in the Black Hills National Forest Timber-Processing Area (March 2024)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability of Mills to Utilize Timber by Diameter Size Class within the Shoshone National Forests Timber-Processing Area (September 2021)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability of Mills to Utilize Timber by Diameter Size within the Bighorn National Forests Timber-Processing Area (June 2021)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability of Mills to Utilize Timber by Diameter Size within the Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests Timber-Processing Area (December 2020)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability within the San Juan National Forests Timber-Processing Area (August 2020)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability within the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region Timber-Processing Area (Journal of Forestry, March 2020)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability Within The White River National Forest Timber-Processing Area (Jan. 2020)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability Within The Pike-San Isabel National Forest Timber-Processing Area (Sep. 2019)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability Within The USDA Forest Service Region 2 Timber-Processing Area (Spring 2019)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability By Diameter Size in the Black Hills National Forest Timber-Processing Area (Winter 2018)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability By Diameter Size Class in the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests Timber-Processing Area (Winter 2018)

• RioGrande National Forest Timber-Processing Area (August 2017)

• Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest Timber-Processing Area (August 2017)

Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability to Utilize Timber Within USDA Forest Service, Region One (Montana, Idaho)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability of Mills to Utilize Timber by Diameter Size Class Within the Flathead National Forest Timber-Processing Area (June 2022)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability of Mills to Utilize Timber by Diameter Size Class Within the Helena-Lewis & Clark National Forest Timber-Processing Area (August 2022)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability of Mills to Utilize Timber by Diameter Size Class Within the Custer-Gallatin National Forest Timber-Processing Area (May 2022)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability of Mills to Utilize Timber by Diameter Size Class Within the Lolo and Bitterroot National Forests Timber-Processing Area (June 2022)

• Region One Timber-Processing Area (February 2013)

• Clearwater and Nez Perce National Forest Timber-Processing Area (August 2012)

• Flathead National Forest Timber-Processing Area (August 2012)

• Idaho Panhandle National Forest Impact Zone (June 2012)

• Kootenai National Forest Impact Zone (June 2012)

• Lolo National Forest Timber-Processing Area (August 2012)

• Region One Timber-processing Area (January 2004)

• Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Timber-Processing Area (January 2004)

• Bitterroot National Forest Timber-Processing Area (March 2004)

• Clearwater and Nez Perce National Forest Timber-Processing Area (May 2006)

• Flathead National Forest Timber-Processing Area (March 2004)

• Idaho Panhandle National Forest Impact Zone (September 2005)

• Kootenai National Forest Impact Zone (September 2005)

• Lolo National Forest Timber-Processing Area (August 2004)

See also: Journal of Forestry (Vol. 104, Issue 5, July 2006)

Impact of the Great Recession and Housing Collapse on the Forest Products Industry in the Western United States

Forest Products Journal (Vol. 61 No. 8, 2012)

Timber-Processing Capacity and Capabilities in the Western United States

Presentation slide show (pdf)(2004)

See also: Journal of Forestry (Vol. 104, Issue 5, July 2006) (July/August, 2006)

Recent Posters

• Where do federal logs go? Characterizing Forest Products and Timber Flow presented at the 2017 Society of American Foresters Annual Convention.

• The Great Recession and the Western Forest Products Industry Poster (2012)

• Timber-Processing Capacity in the Western United States (2006)

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