These logs are usually turned at a special mill that slices thin strips of wood that are used as veneer on a variety of wood products. Poles are used for telephone poles, piling, and related products. They must meet special requirements. Fuelwood refers to timber sold for firewood markets. Typically this will include poorer quality trees, dead trees, as well as tree tops.
Pulpwood includes trees that are used to produce paper products.
Biomass includes trees that burned for power generation. Poles, fuelwood, pulpwood, and biomass are special products that are sold by the linear foot, cord, or the ton. All other prices are reported as the dollars per thousand board feet of timber. One board foot is 12 inches x 12 inches x 1 inch, with the number of board feet in each tree depending on its diameter, number of logs, and defects. Therefore, a thousand board feet of timber may be made up of a few large trees or many small trees.