___ UnitedStates

Department of

° Agriculture Pulpwood Production in the ForestService

-. Lake States, 1993 North Central

Forest Experiment

Station

ResearchNote NC-367 Ronald J. Piva 1

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AB_CT.--Ptflpwood production in the Imke States increased from 8.8 million cords in 1992 to 9.4

million cords in 1993. Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin pulpwood production is shown by county

and species group.

KEY WORDS: Residue, roundwood, whole tree chips, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin.

Pulpwood production 2 in the Lake States--Michigan, Minnesota,. and Wisconsin--increased to 9.4

million cords in 1993 from 8.8 million cords in 1992. 3 Wisconsin produced 3.3 million cords, Michigan produced 3.2 million cords, and Minnesota produced 3.0 million Cords in 1993 (table 1). Ninetythree, percent of the pulpwood produced came from roundw0od (including chips from roundwood); the

remainder came from mill residues such as slabs, edgmgs, veneer cores, and chips from these materials {fig. 11.

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Figure l.--Pulpwood production, Ixflce States, 1982-1993.

ROUNDWOOD

R0undwood production totaled 8.7 million cords and was equally distributed among the three _e

States. More than three-fourths of the harvested species were hardwoods. Aspen accounted for more

than half of the total production (4.5 million cords). The other major species were pine (1.2 million

cords), maple (1.1 million cords), spruce-fir (0.6 million cords), and birch (0.5 million cords) (fig. 2).

RONALD J. PIVA is a Forester with the North Central Forest _riment Station, St. Pau!, Minnesota.

2 Includes logs, bolts, and wood residue used in manufacturing particleboard, waferboard, oriented strand

board, and mediwn density _rboard.

a Previous year's data are from "Pulpwood Production in the Ixflce States, 1992," Research Note NC-365, 1994.
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Figure 2.reDistribution of roundwood production by major species grou R, Lake States, 1993.

In 1993, whole tree chips (WTC) supplied 603 thousand cords or 7 percent of the roundwood production, an 8-percent increase over 1992. Michigan was the major WTC producer with 377 thousand

cords, followed by Minnesota with 136 thousand cords and Wisconsin with 90 thousand cords.

Countiesharvesting more than 150 thousand cords each were Delta, Iron, and Marquette in Michigan; Beltrami, Cass, Itasca, Koochiching, and St. Louis in Minnesota; and Bayfield, Marinette, Oneida,

and Vilas in Wisconsin. These 12 counties contributed 38 percent of the pulpwood production from

r0undwood in the Lake States in 1993.

MILL RF_IDUES

Pulpwood production from miU residues amounted to 690 thousand cords in 1993, a 13-percent

increase over 1992. Production from soi_vood and hardwood residues by State was:

State Softwood Hardwood

(Thousand standard cords, unpeeled)

Michigan 72 174

Minnesota 36 76

Wisconsin 68 264

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Table 1.--Lake States pulpwood production from roundwood by county and species group, 1993

(In standardcords,unpeeled)

MINNESOTA

All Balsam Other

Unitand county 11 species Pine Spruce fir Hemlock Tamarack Cedar Aspen Birch Oak Maple hardwoods

ASPEN-BIRCH

Carlton 45,591 1,792 2,122 9,223 -- 29 -- 26,350 3,350 - 1,806 919

Cook .75,708 11,302 13,293 6,440 -- 42 -- 42,086 2,546 ....

Koochiching 447,623 8,081 49,230 26,370 -- 1,165 -- 323,181 347 - - 39,250

Lake 96,616 2,971 16,913 8,491 -- 210 -- 52,676 11,767 -- 2,042 1,545

St. Louis 664,866 31,399 43,053 63,184 -- 259 -- 480,773 9,354 -- 6,800 30,042

Total 1,330,403 55,545 124,61.1 113,707 - 1,705 -- 925,066 27,364 -- 10,649 71,756

NORTHERN PINE

Aitkin 106,198 1,999 833 5,426 ...... 90,907 1,352 - 3,145 2,536

Becker 96,620 1,721 17 735 ...... 93,983 .... 163

Beltrami ' 179,600 '8,698 6,141 10,523 -- 541 -- 148,820 2,701 - - 2,175

Cass 164,,789 7,006 1,405 6,199 ...... 146,644 1,370 -- - 2,164

Clearwater • 68,790 375 460 1,970 -- 50 -- 65,486 ..... 449

CrowWing 85,921 10,773 -- 385 ...... 73,933 295 - 46 490

Hubbard 117,023 6,058 217 441 ...... 106,985 424 -- - 2,899

Itasca 409,215 7,752 20,053 55,649 ....... 309,582 5,182 - 3,673 7,324

Lakeof theWoods 46,597 18,280 2,191 2,117 -- 251 -- 23,012 2 -- - 745

Mahn0men 25,745 ............ 25,541 ..... 204

Roseau 23,965 15,031 1,302 96 -- - -- 6,972 - - - 564

Wadena 16,257. 2,895 .......... 13,280 .... 82

Total 1,340,720 80,589 32,619 83,542 -- 842 -- 1,105,144 11,326 - 6,864 19,795

CENTRAL HARDWOOD

Benton 43 43 ..................

Chisago 356 97 .......... 260 .......

Goodhue 54 22 .......... 33 .....

Isanti 1,535 1,442 ......... 94 .....

Kanabec 9,685 214 .......... 9,270 121 -- 79 -

Mnle Lacs 38,128 7,474 -- 44 ...... 30,611 ......

Morrison 17,094 1,681 42 ........ 15,371 .......

Olmsted 26 26 ................

Ottei"Tail 6,755 349 ........ 6,283 ..... 122

Pine 87,126 8,216 609 1,703 ...... 67,711 3,293 - 3,476 2,118

Sherbume 365 352 13 ...............

Todd 1,922 164 ......... 1,757 .....

Total 163,089 20,081 664 1,747 ..... 131,388 3,414 - 3,555 2,241

PRAIRIE

Clay 15 ............ 15 .....

•Kittson 179 - -- , ....... 179 .......

•. Marshall 3,348 .......... 3,308 .... 41

Norman 6,485 -......... 6,485 ....

•Pennington 4,664 ........... 4,664 ......

Polk 5,818 ......... 5,818 .....

RedLake 2,579 .......... 2,579 .......

Sibley . 13 13 .................

Total - ' 23,101 13 ..... 23,048 - - - 41

State total . 2,857,313 156,227 157,894 198,997 - 2,547 - 2,184,646 42,104 - 21,067 93,833

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MICHIGAN

All Balsam Other

Unit.and county11 species Pine Spruce fir Hemlock Tamarack Cedar Aspen Birch Oak Maple hardwoods

E. UPPER PENINSULA

Alger 104,039 16,335 2,432 8,410 2,585 524 631 16,595 9,015 806 37,946 8,760

Chippewa 106,049 34,512 3,779 8,501 1,895 483 605 36,136 4,638 66 10,307 5,128

Delta 174,773 27,579 3,622 10,961 3,365 744 815 58,357 16,680 765 40,107 11,779

Luce 75,241 18,823 4,063 5,589 3,192 331 368 7,531 4,801 641 25,487 4,415

Mackinac 96,397 11,225 3,425 5,495 1,241 243 405 38,174 6,803 347 22,776 6,261

Menominee 95,902 8,909 3,293 4,403 1,250 244 285 32,699 15,309 782 22,941 5,786

Schoolcraft 125,634 32,004 5,935 11,240 3,815 907 837 21,624 6,286 706 33,912 8,368

Total 778,034 149,387 26,550 54,599 17,343 3,476 3,946 211,117 63,530 4,113 193,478 50,495

W. UPPER PENINSULA

. Baraga 62,997 4,666 2,349 2,915 4,056 223 124 32,317 2,150 415 8,594 5,189

Dickinson 138,240 24,410 5,949 9,321 2,641 526 634 57,103 11,291 452 19,079 6,834

Gogebic 98,284 5,210 2,500 1,906 689 .... 35,392 4,703 3,035 34,190 10,659

Houghton - _ 140,643 8,385 3,401 4,260 1,097 133 159 45,070 11,860 1,821 49,553 14,905

Iron 187,856 10,160 9,805 7,105 1,149 225 272 64,109 15,845 2,813 61,138 15,234

Keweenaw 5,288 638 516 42 6 .... 1,211 780 58 1,766 270

Marquette 301,233 54,464 12,072 16,762 9,431 1,033 1,196 77,683 31,508 1,845 75,486 19,755

Ontonagon 116,087 6,665 2,274 1,318 877 .... 60,514 2,551 1,533 29,978 10,378

Total 1,050,628 114,597 38,865 43,630 19,946 2,139 2,384 373,398 80,687 11,972 279,784 83,225

N. LOWER PENINSULA

Alcona 51,246 9,769 6 13 ...... 27,245 3,559 4,328 4,391 1,936

Alpena 21,185 698 161 165 .... 9 13,491 2,119 714 2,658 1,170

•Antrim 21,260 4,694 .......... 8,080 1,783 - 5,858 845

Arenac 13,288 366 .......... 9,320 877 1,138 1,524 62

Bay . 1,571 ........... 1,331 90 -- 151 --

Benzie 8,824 ........... 2,815 448 451 3,770 1,341

Charlevoix 7,713 282 .......... 2,742 365 15 3,595 714

Cheboygan 66,320 13,512 425 990 .... 94 36,472 3,044 1,441 8,676 1,665

Clare 44,576 1,121 .......... 32,759 1,782 2,069 6,151 693

Crawford 36,113 18,833 .......... 10,587 190 3,636 2,769 98

Emmet 19,923 1,532 52 218 .... 27 10,681 1,551 -- 5,405 457

Gladwin 28,187 260 .......... 22,229 885 1,263 3,034 516

GrandTraverse 13,298 2,626 .......... 5,201 687 1,098 2,901 786

•Iosco 15,176 126 .......... 11,270 1,537 396 1,518 329

Isabella 24,661 183 .......... 18,125 276 4,050 1,309 717

Kalkaska' 16,670 4,594 .......... 9,160 477 504 1,915 21

Lake 49,865 302 .......... 15,885 747 21,516 8,602 2,811

Leelanau 4,896 ............ 1,937 487 521 732 1,218

Manistee 60,929 279 .......... 28,011 3,382 9,629 12,514 7,116

Mason 29,930 24 .......... 17,700 2,082 5,772 3,074 1,279

Mecosta 37,341 62 .......... 27,742 810 4,770 2,934 1,020

Midland 13,275 ............ 7,836 739 1,168 3,516 16

Missaukee 42,274 1,359 .......... 25,033 1,896 4,870 8,016 1,100

Montmorency 54,246 3,419 26 80 .... 4 32,779 3,431 5,999 7,039 1,469

Newaygo 35,947 ............ 18,367 563 13,309 3,125 582

Oceana 22,110 ............ 12,439 852 5,210 2,601 1,008

Ogemaw 29,945 3,023 .......... 16,100 1,399 5,280 2,920 1,225

Osceola 37,351 30 .......... 26,756 2,104 3,472 4,562 426

Oscoda 44,537 15,724 .......... 20,398 1,926 3,533 2,391 565

• Otsego 34,977 13,951 64 100 .... 3 10,333 1,471 563 7,804 688

PresqueIsle 42,281 564 970 1,130 .... 19 25,522 5,822 851 5,384 2,019

Roscommon 50,803 15,890 .......... 22,100 1,592 3,811 6,984 428

Wexford 34,828 2,747 .......... 14,332 1,785 5,824 5,579 4,562

Total 1,015,544 115,970 1,705 2,696 .... 156 544,777 50,758 117,199 143,399 38,883

S. LOWER PENINSULA

•A!legan 9,885 ........... 1,953 -- 7,899 33 --

Barry 13,136 ............ 225 2,362 406 8,772 1,370

Calhoun 251 ................ 251 ....

Cass 1,418 ............... 1,075 343 --

Clinton 1,387 ............. 121 669 237 359

Eaton 5,560 ........... 377 -- 2,448 2,375 359

Gratiot. 150 ............ 83 -- - 67 --

Hillsdale 1_, 14 ..................

Kalamazoo 4,719 ........... 2,515 -- 1,131 713 359

Kent 8,134 ........... 4,001 -- 3,863 269 --

Montcalm 3,023 17 ......... 856 -- 2,150 ....

Muskegon 9,362 ........... 1,534 -- 7,828 ....

Ottawa 2,162 ........... 201 -- 1,961 ....

Saginaw 123 ................. 123 --

Shiawassee 540 ............ 253 -- 287 -- --

SL Joseph 3,855 ........... 172 -- 2,867 817 -

4- Tuscola 381 ............ 381 ....... ' Van Buren 399 .............. 358 41 --

Tot__! 64,499 31 ......... 12,550 2,483 33,193 13,791 2,450

Statetotal 2,908,704 379,984 67,120 100,925 37,288 5,615 6,486 1,141,842 197,459 166,4// 630,452 175,054

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WISCONSIN

All Balsam Other

Unit and county 1/." species Pine Spruce fir Hemlock Tamarack Cedar Aspen Birch Oak Maple hardwoods

NORTHEASTERN

Florence . 83,521 3,71 5 1,389 2,557 2,185 137 3 41,935 8,076 1,147 18,580 3,797

" Forest 107,817 5,926 2,975 4,668 1,992 136 - 31,730 10,043 3,959 36,068 10,322

Langlade 123,'/7'8 9,176 1,225 5,213 946 224 - 51,296 13,948 3,473 26,057 12,218

Lincoln 107,272 10,062 884 2,826 700 151 - 43,583 11,263 5,173 19,619 13,012

Madnette 159,370 47,51 3 914 3,435 461 233 11 59,453 18,977 1,693 22,308 4,374

Menominee 69,527 6,7 06 198 916 9,114 96 58 24,799 4,404 1,019 15,582 6,635

Oconto 67,653 13,440 177 714 156 - - 31,199 7,002 793 11,241 2,929

Oneida 155,198 22,6 60 2,616 5,743 449 811 - 46,385 22,765 8,076 29,761 15,933

Shawano 24,420 1,667 43 95 1,193 - -- 13,133 1,312 493 4,850 1,635

Vilas 154,944 20,539 3,032 3,339 219 232 - 61,268 30,977 3,656 24,858 6,823

Total " 1,053,500 141,403 13,454 29,506 17,414 2,019 71 404,780 128,769 29,480 208,926 77,679

NORTHWESTERN

Ashland 70,231 5,44 9 4,645 2,642 276 623 - 28,804 6,072 2,937 15,633 2,950

Barron 19,539 2,089 75 - - 9 - 11,258 1,455 955 2,429 1,269

Bayfield 198,719 56,047 1,660 1,807 30 371 - 90,590 24,844 4,208 14,895 4,267

Bumett _71,159 30,934 150 11 - - - 30,715 1,382 2,123 3,587 2,256

Douglas 149,559 75,17 2 1,547 8,454 - 44 - 43,782 12,282 576 6,717 986

Iron 138,342 5,3 69 3,463 5,161 1,184 355 75 66,889 9,34 1 6,928 29,969 9,609

Polk 24,179 5,144 ' - - - - 16,373 902 291 1,006 463

Price 132,931 4,945 3,367 6,267 1,006 836 - 59,144 11,905 6,974 21,152 17,336

Rusk 83,524 2,051 342 338 146 1,082 - 40,948 7,453 4,462 18,207 8,496

Sawyer 146,607 7,247 2,310 3,133 260 1,135 - 60,513 22,253 6,475 32,728 10,552

Taylor 70,108 943 947 2,181 1,180 411 -- 34,734 5,669 2,129 14,332 7,582

Washbum 116,408 29,182 727 1,118 127 96 - 60,664 10,456 2,766 9,410 1,860

Total 1,221,306 224,573 19,233 31,312 4,210 4,963 75 544,414 114,013 40,824 170,064 67,624

(_ENTRAL

Adams 76,660 6 0,7 83 - - - 88 - 2,280 521 11,344 983 661

Chippewa 50,034 3,500 55 38 56 150 -- 32,509 3,334 1,885 5,985 2,524

Clark 76,384 4,4 4 5 66 68 - 23 - 38,635 4,937 9,977 13,535 4,699

Eau Claire 34,508 18,844 83 .... 6,214 964 4,305 3,216 884

Jackson 92,915 55,0 70 33 - - 10 - 17,865 2,215 9,076 5,722 2,924

Juneau 34,855 25,897 ..... 994 375 6,134 945 509

Marathon 58,460 7,1 92 141 235 1,167 40 - 26,843 2,551 2,324 11,267 6,700

Marquette 12;576 11,370 11 - 11 - -- 48 87 774 187 86

Monroe 27,006 20,4 6 0 6 ..... 1,220 153 4,252 556 358

portage 30,085 19,397 33 159 191 51 - 5,075 514 1,414 2,108 1,144

• Waupaca 14,865 8,301 77 16 53 9 -- "3,825 238 134 1,492 719

Waushara 30,737 27,991 154 .... 743 138 1,158 361 193

Wood 36,248 13,839 173 - 14 19 - 15,962 695 1,598 2,403 1,547

Total 575,333 277,089 833 516 1,492 389 -- 152,213 16,724 54,373 48,759 22,945

SOUTHWESTERN

Buffalo 5,920 1,476 40 .... 3,948 63 95 235 62

Crawford 281 242 ..... 10 - 2 17 10

Dunn 20,273 10,838 38 24 - - - 6,786 392 708 922 565

Grant 352 232 - - 11 - - - 17 11 69 11

'Iowa 547 535 ...... 2 3 3 4

La Crosse 3,432 3,075 42 .... 44 25 15 170 60

Lafayette 17 .... 13 ..... 4 - *

P.epin 2,683 1,841 ...... 209 3 1 17 11

Pierce. 963 728 - 15 - - - 226 1 - 6 7

Richland 1,153 1,1 53 .........

Sauk 8,177 7,184 14 11 - - - 52 81 546 220 68

St. Croix 8,294 1,7 83 111 - 11 - - 5,896 117 19 306 52

Trempealeau = 6,035 4,821 332 ..... 491 46 40 178 127

•Vernon 145 97 ....... 48 - -

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' Total 57,692 3 4,00 2 576 63 23 - - 17,662 749 1,495 2,142 979

SOUTHEASTERN

Brown 10,358 21 5 - 13 - - - 8,448 147 116 572 848

' "Calumet 22 19 ........ 2 1

Columbia 5,459 4,533 23 .... 13 2 870 6 12

Dane 1,352 1,352 ..........

Dodge 36 22 14 .........

Door- . 309 2 5 - - 11 - - 204 8 - 58 3

FondDq Lac 54 ......... 1 52 2 *

Green 487 41 7 ...... 12 11 38 9

Green•Lake 2,410 1,343 7 .... 93 116 473 240 136

Jefferson 63 3 0 ...... 52 - - - •

Kenosha 63 6 3 ..........

Kewaunee 48 .... 34 - - - 3 3 4 4

Manitow0c • 272 167 27 ...... 5 24 42 7

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Milwaukee 23 2 3 ..........

Outagamie 1,914 204 11 .... 840 100 42 611 106

Ozaukee 189 189 .........

Racine * ............

Rock 1,626 1,604 22 .........

Sheboygan ' 1,003 957 36 ..... 1 - 8 1

Walworth 1,314 1,303 ...... 2 2 7 -

Washington 869 81 9 - 11 .... 8 10 12 9

Waukesha 1,270 1;228 41 ........ "

W'mnebago 382 227 13 ..... 2 132 4 3

Total 29,540 14,7 37 193 24 45 - - 9,650 407 1,737 1,604 1,142

' S!_te total 2,937,371 691,807 34,289 61,420 23,185 7,371 146 1,128,718 260,661 127,910 431,495 170,371 5

Total L_ke States 8,703,388 1,228,018 259,303 361,342 60,473 15,533 6,632 4,455,206 500,224 294,387 1,083,014 439,258

• = less thanl standard cord,unpeeled.

1/ Includesonlythose counties that suppliedpulpwoodin 1993.
* U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1995--657-094