Wood is moderately soft, moderately light, weak and close-grained.
It is used for pulp, general construction, poles, posts and mine timbers. This pine provides cover and food for many northern wildlife species. Deer and hares browse the saplings and porcupines damage the trees when they feed on the bark. It is used in the north for windbreaks, shelterbelts and for reforestation of severely eroded sites. Although the Jack pine grows faster than most other conservation-planting pine species in Iowa, the fertile soils support more valuable, larger and more ornamental conifers.