White Oak chips are utilized in paper manufacturing and as bedding material form mushroom growers. It has potential for furniture, flooring, cabinets, picture frames, paneling and veneer. Tanoak's strength and resistance to abrasion has made it a good choice for flooring and structural use. Tanoak is gaining in popularity for furniture, veneer and pallets as well. Cottonwood grows very fast, producing pulpwood in as little as four years and sawlogs in 20 years.
Chief uses are plywood cores, veneer, pallets and chips for paper manufacturing.
Fine furniture, cabinets and residential flooring are the most popular uses for Black Oak, which is found predominantly in Southwest Oregon. Black Oak is also used for manufacturing unique, reusable pallets, having an average five-year lifespan in repeated use. Other Pacific Northwest's hardwoods with economic potential include Aspen, Birch, Chinkapin,Columbia River Ash, Myrtlewood and Poplar.