Table 22. Wood Supply from Logging Residues and Other Removals from
Noncommercial Growing Stock and Other Sources, 1991
(Thousand Cubic Feet)
Logging Residues Other Removals
Growing Other Growing Other
Region Total Stock[a] Sources[b] Stock[c] Sources[d]
Northeast
Softwood 236,305 23,757 176,180 19,886 16,482
Hardwood 392,139 73,584 200,176 61,442 56,937
North Central
Softwood 55,043 8,360 9,836 24,990 11,857
Softwood 55,043 8,360 9,836 24,990 11,857
Southeast
Softwood 469,279 148,057 62,528 227,202 31,492
Hardwood 773,809 171,107 199,422 237,915 165,365
South Central
Softwood 492,101 169,198 241,437 60,977 20,489
Hardwood 997,142 205,628 535,703 117,500 138,311
Great Plains
Softwood 2,655 2,443 12 138 62
Hardwood 7,784 1,305 757 3,554 2,168
Intermountain
Softwood 71,501 71,501 0 0 0
Hardwood 943 943 0 0 0
Pacific Northwest
& Alaska
Softwood 786,024 284,247 488,555 0 11,673
Hardwood 18,598 5,344 10,483 0 2,122
Pacific Southwest
& Hawaii
Softwood 164,887 65,035 98,682 1,549 1,059
Hardwood 18,185 7,422 10,763 649 0
U.S. Total 4,973,042 1,344,750 2,112,256 921,867 594,169
[a]Growing stock volume cut or knocked down during harvesting operations
and left at harvest site.
[b]Wood volume other than growing stock cut or knocked down during
harvesting operations but left on the ground. This volume is net of wet rot
and advanced dry rot, and excludes old punky logs; essentially, it consists
of material sound enough to chip. It includes dead and cull tees, tops above
the 4-inch growing-stock top, and trees smaller than 5 inches in diameter at
breast height and excludes stumps and limbs.
[c]Gowing stock removed by cultural operations or timberland clearing not
counted under harvesting of commercial growing stock.
[d]ood volume other than growing stock removed by cultural operations and
timber clearing; provisions of footnote (b) apply.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Resources
of the United States, 1992, General Technical Report RM-234 (Revised) (Fort
Collins, CO, June 1994), Table 38, pp. 114-115.