_x,_::_ United States

.... f Pulpwood Production in the Lake

_F:;.y Agriculture

Forest States by County, 1988

North Central

Forest Station E×per_ment James E° Blyth and W. Brad Smith 2

Research Note N0-349

1989

ABSTRACT.---Lake States pulpwood production climbed to a record 8.14 million cords in

1988. Putpwood production is shown by county and species group in Michigan, Minnesota,

and Wisconsin.

KEY WORDS: Residue, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin

Pulpwood production in the Lake States--Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin_rose to a

record 8.14 million cords in 1988 from 7.69 million cords in 1987. Wisconsin produced 3.09

miltion cords, Michigan produced 2.92 million cords, and Minnesota produced 2.13 miltion

cords.

Ninety-two out of every 100 cords of pulpwood came from roundwood (including chips

from roundwood); the remainder came from mill residue such as slabs, edgings, veneer cores,

and chips from these materials° Production from softwood and hardwood residue by State

was:

State Softwood Hardwood

(Hundred standard cords, unpeeled)

Michigan 696 1,759

Minnesota 572 571

Wisconsin 563 2,336

Major species harvested were aspen (3,68! ,000 cords), pine (993,600 cords), maple

(868,400 cords), birch (585,900 cords), and balsam fir (359,600 cords).

Lake States loggers produced 655 thousand cords of whole tree chips (WTC), 8 percent

more than in 1987 and 8 percent of total pulpwood output in 1988. Michigan was the major

WTC producer with 534 thousand cords, followed by Minnesota with 77 thousand cords and

Wisconsin with 44 thousand cords°

Counties cutting more than 130,000 cords each were Delta, Menominee, Dickinson,

Marquette, and Ontonagon in Michigan; Koochiching, St. Louis, and _tasca in Minnesota; and

Forest, Marinette, Oneida, Vilas, Bayfieid, and Sawyer in Wisconsin. These !4 counties con °

tributed two out of every five cords of puipwood produced from roundwood in the Lake States

in ! 988.

_lnciudes logs, bolts, and wood residue used in manufacturing particleboard, waferboard, oriented strand board, and

medium density fiberboard.

2jAMES BLYTH, Principal Market Analyst, and BRAD SMITH, Principal Mensurationist, North Central Forest Experiment

Station, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Table 1.--Lake States Pulpwood Production From Roundwc_od By Coun&, And Species, I988

(in hundred standard c_ords, unpeeted)

MICHIGAN

Unit 1/ All Balsam Hem- Tan"u O_r

and Counb(_ species Pine Soruce fir lock ar_ck Cedar As_oen Birch Oak Maple hardwoods

E.UPPER PENINSULA

Alger 850 77 38 62 53 2 18 56 102 14 286 142

Chippewa 582 8 1 46 66 19 3 19 123 84 t 86 54

Delta 2,t74 320 190 220 46 8 82 388 294 22 373 253

Luce 514 156 42 58 t 1 2 17 43 39 1 9t 54

Mackinac 525 31 57 90 t 1 2 15 t35 63 2 59 60

Menominee 1,642 89 85 139 32 6 34 506 316 15 259 161

Schoolcraft .... 1.294 _ 176 11__73 . 3 _.. 31 5 35 100 t62 8 4t8 t73

Total 7,581 930 531 748 203 28 200 1.349 _ 1060 63 1,572 897

W.UPPER PENINSULA

Ba/aga 835 102 9 15 14 1 5 113 12t 25 345 85

Dickinson 1,349 119 115 t 47 39 6 41 442 182 13 173 72

Gogebic 920 38 31 5 4 X 2/ X 177 112 38 417 98

Houghton 621 74 26 36 14 2 10 92 84 15 2t3 55

Iron 1,283 82 95 45 11 5 9 521 177 17 254 67

Keweenaw 34 3 X X _ 8 3 1 17 4

Marquette 2,521 316 106 '140 61 7 40 728 386 37 485 215

Ontonagon _ 1,555 85_ ....... 2 4 2 X - 858 93 28 329 t 56

Total 9_118 819 384 392 145 21 1

N. LOWER PENINSULA

Atcona 624 95 X * 375 42 50 38 24

Atpena 270 7 X 1 - t94 25 11 20 12

AntrJm 93 4 - - 50 38 1

Arenac 41 X - - 38 X X 4 1

Bay X - - X _ -

Benzie 130 2 - - 75 8 10 27 10

Chartevoix 45 3 - - - 11 2 X 12 17

Cheboygan 433 45 3 14 X 1 254 35 11 83 7

Clare 339 3 - * 269 6 34 23 4

Crawford 548 242 X X - 199 7 49 51 X

Emmet 233 42 2 5 1 1 125 8 47 4

Gtadwin 95 X 82 3 5 5 X

Grand Traverse 267 73 - t 58 4 13 14 7

Iosco 111 4 - 73 12 4 13 5

Isabella 140 X 131 1 4 3 1

KaJkaska 238 79 t 10 4 9 29 7

Lake 570 47 - 284 9 147 70 t3

Leelanau 7 X 8 1

Manis[ee 458 2 261 21 69 87 18

Mason 238 2 155 7 33 34 7

Mecosta 289 4 278 2 1 3 1

Midland 147 127 3 5 8 4

Missaukee 372 51 234 6 26 48 6

Montmorency 428 26 258 39 22 60 23

Newaygo 442 3 228 2 132 7 t 8

Ooeana 329 X 215 3 61 37 13

Ogemaw 119 14 X 79 17 1 6 2

Osceola 357 8 293 8 17 28 5

Oscoda 491 120 X 7 222 21 86 48 7

Otsego 278 99 110 1 5 58 5

Presque Isle 515 87 6 18 t 283 58 15 50 t7

Roscommon 394 127 241 7 9 9 t

Wexford 419 63 217 14 47 60 18

Total 9,460. 1,.230 ...... 11 ___ 45 1 ....... 3 5 623 371 856 t,071 249

S. LOWER PENINSULA

Altegan 79 g 43 17 10

Barry 8 1 1 1 5

Calhoun 65 8 18 27 12

Cass 4 X X X 4

Gratiot 20 16 2 1 1

lngharn X X

Ionia 2 I X X 1

Kalamazoo 9 1 2 2 4

Kent 30 8 X 10 7 5

Montcalm 127 72 1 28 10 16

Muskegon 166 X 83 X 74 23 6

Ottawa 33 3 X 10 13 7

St. Joseph 16 2 4 3 7

Van 8uren 30 1 9 8 12

Total 589 X 185 1 201 112 90

StateTolal 26 748 2 979 926 1 185 349 49 308 10 092__._.2_2590 - .... 1 294 _4 988 1 988

(Table I con#nued on next page)
(Tabl_ I con_;nued)

M_NNESOTA

Unk t/ A l_ BaJ_t Hem° Tam- O{her

and CounW species Pine Spruce fir lock aFack Cedar Aspen Birch Oak Maple hardwoods

ASPEN-B_RCH

Cartton 506 15 58 t 36 1 255 17 o 1 23

Cook 557 23 187 76 260 1 - - 10

Koochiching 2,373 260 384 187 79 1,406 2 - - 55

Lake 1,020 33 146 98 4 652 58 - 1 28

St. Louis 5t8 4 3,238 26 - 28 t93

To_aJ B_213 715 1_1!1_1 0!5 ____88 -_ 5_811 t04 - 30 309

NORTHERN P_NE

Air, in 663 8 16 36 - 536 1 - 2 66

Becket 529 4 X 2 - 521 - - - 2

Bel_sami 1,291 88 41 108 - 1.066 - - - 2

Cas8 t,164 48 20 64 1,028 - - - 6

C_earwater 743 15 9 20 - 597 - - 2

Crow Wing 403 38 X - 383 - - - 2

Hubbard 742 40 5 5 590 - - 2

l_sca 4,00t 93 206 444 - 2 3,158 16 - 30 52

Lake of _e Woods t 44 97 13 1 11 - 22 - - -

Mahnomen 161 - 160 - - - 1

Roseau {}4 62 2 - X - - -

Wadena 62 7 X 1 - 54 - * - X

Total 9 967476 3t 2 681 - 19 - 8_295 17 - 32 135

CENTRAL HARDWOOD

Isami X X ....

Ken abec 17 - 17 - -

Mille Lacs 376 1 1 2 - 372 - - - X

Morr.ison 45 t 44 - - - X

Pine 488 8 1 7 421 12 - 1 38

Sherburne 11 11 ....

Todd 7 t - 6 - - - X

To_ 944 22 2 9 860 12 - 1 38

PRAIRIE

Polk t 5 - 15 - - -

Red Lake 26 - 26 - - -

To_ 41 41 - -

StateTotal _ 20,t6 5 1 213 !,455 1 705 Z 107 - 15,007 133 63 482

(Table I continued on next page)

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(Table t continued)

WISCONSIN

Unit 1/ Alt Balsam Hem- Tam- Other

and County species Pine Sjoruce fir lock arack Cedar Aspen Birch Oak Maple hardwoods

NORTHEAST

Florence 1,092 152 59 67 32 3 408 130 12 t81 48

Forest 1,349 156 75 92 22 2 416 t70 5 287 124

Langlade 969 82 6 17 3 1 372 130 11 267 80

Lincoln t,266 84 t5 32 51 3 703 93 19 188 78

Marinette 1,782 376 30 57 7 3 75t 254 16 231 57

Menominee 654 63 X 2 256 0 92 40 8 145 48

Ocon[o 796 204 1 6 2 0 273 130 1 t 13t 38

Oneida t,519 306 60 81 13 4 446 304 32 208 65

Shawano 264 31 X t 10 0 89 23 4 84 22

Vitas _.__1 432 247 16 28 8 X 829 238 21 197 50

To_qd _23 t 701262 383 402 18 - 4 179 1 5! 2 139 I_919 810

NORTHWEST

AshIand 977 94 59 50 2 4 422 113 2_5 157 50

Barron 307 5 - 236 41 17 4 4

Bayfield 1,771 238 2 34 1 1,039 288 31 97 43

Burner! 569 249 2 2 - 277 22 7 7 3

Douglas 1,234 243 13 t21 X - 637 123 12 43 42

Iron 649 12 2 5 2 - 377 120 7 95 29

Polk 193 t X - - 178 9 5 1 1

Pdce 1,246 7{} 23 44 13 8 - 500 184 17 271 110

Rusk 615 20 1 1 1 1 - 378 65 2{} 80 44

Sawyer 1,647 53 34 20 3 2 - 858 274 50 241 104

Taylor 861 58 12 34 14 3 384 76 7 201 72

Washburn 712 91 2 3 0 4 445 70 32 40 25

T___.__.o___._. ........... 10,781_ !__t40 150 314 36 22 -_5 7351 383 237 t_237 527

CENTRAL

Adams 477 425 X 15 1 34 t 1

Chippewa 337 36 3 2 2 2 189 45 16 42 20

Cla/k 725 95 X X X 413 58 31 85 43

Eau Claire 182 87 X 66 8 11 8 2

Jackson 587 341 1 1 121 21 55 43 4

Juneau 454 372 7 7 49 15 4

Marathon 754 50 7 5 15 t 448 32 17 114 65

Marquette 186 136 X X 3 6 29 10 2

Monroe 187 143 X 1 13 7 10 9 4

Portage 403 239 4 2 3 1 60 14 50 24 6

Waupac.a 222 112 0 X I X ,59 4 6 22 8

Waushara 329 305 X -- 9 2 3 8 2

Wood 679 158 1 X 1 X 370 28 55 62 6

ToN ....... 5_522 2 499 16 9 22 6 L_ t__._._763_23t 366 443 167

SOUTHWEST

Buffalo 12 12 - X X X

Crawford 1 1 -

Dunn t08 85 X X t4 3 2 3 t

Grant 12 1 2 X X X X

k_a 8 8

Lacrosse 40 39 1 - - X

Lafayette X X - - ,-

Pepin 6 6 .....

Pierce 5 X - X - 5 X X X

Richland 5 5 ......

SL Croix 11 6 .... 5 - -

Sauk 63 63 X X - X X X

TrempeaJeau 39 39 - - X - X

Vernon 4 3 1 0 -

ToG 3t4 279 2 X X - 24 3 2 3 1

SOUTHEAST

Brown 3 1 2 X

Calumet 4 u × . 3 1

Columbia 91 69 X 3 13 5 1

Dodge X X - - -

Fond Du Lac 15 13 1 - × o 1 X

Green 2 2 - X X

Green Lake 10 10 - X X X

Kenosha X X X X

Kewaunee X X

Manitowoc 17 6 X 1 1 7 2

Ou_garnie 31 3 7 3 1 t 4 3

Ozaukee 1 1

Rock X X

Sheboygan 2 1 X - X 1 X

Walwodh 2 2 -

Waukesha 12 12 -

Winnebago 5 5 -

Total 195 125 1 X X 10 7 t4 3t 7

_StateTot_ ................ 27 935 5,744 431 706 460 44 11_711......3.r136 758 _ .... 1_,312

1/ Includes only those counties that supplied pulpwood in 1988.

2/X indicates less than 50 cords.

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