Download or read book Oregon s Forest Products Industry 1992 written by Franklin R. Ward and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Value Volume and Jobs written by Janet R. Ross and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oregon's forest product industry continues to be the nation's number one producer of wood products. The forest products industry contributes significantly to Oregon's economy. Changes in timber supply, land use policy, technology, and product demand create significant impacts on the region. The activities of the wood products industry translate into jobs, payroll, taxes, and the purchase of services and materials from other industries. In order to trace the contribution of the wood products industry to the state of Oregon's economy, a thorough understanding of how wood is utilized at all subsequent stages of processing is necessary. This study provides an in-depth look at the forest products industry by estimating the volume of wood, number of jobs, and value added of product shipments at each stage of processing, from harvest to final product. The forest products industry as defined in this study includes six primary wood processing industries: sawmills; veneer and plywood mills; pulp and board mills; shake and shingle mills; pole, post & piling mills; and log export firms. Seven secondary and/or residue converting industries are included: structural members, which produce engineered wood products such as laminated veneer, glu-lam beams, and I-joist; millwork; furniture; materials handling, which includes pallets, dunnage and other products used in shipping; reconstituted wood products, such as particle and hard board; converted paper and board products; and miscellaneous wood products. Forestry services and regeneration, logging operations, and hauling are also included to the extent possible. The results of this study indicate the forest products industry in Oregon supported in excess of 80,000 jobs and provided value added in manufacture of more than 5.2 billion dollars in 1992. The estimated harvest volume in 1992 was 1,409.4 million cubic feet and 1,547.1 million cubic feet of logs were consumed in Oregon primary wood products industries. The employment numbers in this study are not directly comparable to other studies because the definition of "wood products industries" may be broader than in other reports. Using the traditional definitions of SIC 24 (lumber and wood products) and SIC 26, (paper and allied products) 63,000 people were employed in wood products industries in 1992.

Download or read book The Business of Sustainable Forestry Case Study Parsons Pine Product written by Catherine M. Mater and published by . This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the U.S. Congress passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973, and subsequently listed the spotted owl as an endangered species in 1990, the debate over the appropriate management of public and private forests has continued at a fevered pitch in the Pacific Northwest. The listing of the spotted owl has led to the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in the logging and forest products industry, which has leveled a heavy toll on many rural communities in Oregon, Washington, and California that have relied for decades on a robust forest products industry to sustain their economies. In 1992 in Oregon, for example, the wood products industry was nine times greater as a share of the total Oregon economy than the industry was as a share of the total U.S. economy. While heated debate in the press and at the grassroots levels continues surrounding these issues, many remain unaware of a fundamental shift toward value-added manufacturing that has occurred in the region's forest products industry.Since the late 1980s, employment in the secondary wood products industry in Oregon has increased from 27% to 40% of the total forest products workforce in 1995, according to the Oregon Employment Division. Total employment in Oregon for logging operations, sawmills, and veneer and plywood operations dropped between 1990-95, losing over 13,000 jobs. In contrast, the value-added and secondary wood products industry - furniture, millwork, cabinetry, and the like - actually generated 11% more jobs during that same period and outnumbered total employment opportunities by a 2:1 margin for sawmills, veneer, and plywood operations, and a 3:1 margin for logging operations. By 1995, the percentage growth rate forvalue-added wood production in Oregon outpaced the percentage growth rate of all other industry sectors in the state, including the burgeoning high-tech and electronics industry.Although an apparent surprise to economists tracking the economic impacts of harvest restrictions in the Pacific Northwest, the growth of the secondary wood products industry has proven to be a stabilizing influence to the overall Oregon economy. It has done so by focusing on making more product out of existing, or in many cases less, resource. In effect, the mandated harvest restrictions provided a unique two-by-four incentive to the industry to figure out how to maximize production with available resources. The results were surprising.Research by the Oregon Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation has documented that for every one million board feet of wood being processed into commodity lumber, on the average only three full-time, family-wage jobs are created. Full-time, family-wage jobs are year round positions that provide industry-competitive wage rates with benefits. If that same one million board feet in lumber were processed into component parts such as furniture blanks or table turnings, an additional twenty full-time, family-wage jobs could be created. And if that same one million board feet of wood represented in component parts were then processed into quality furniture for consumer use, another eighty full-time, family-wage jobs could be created.Even so, industry adaptation to more value-added wood product manufacturing has been slow. Citing, in part, the difficulties in changing an industry culture and mind-set, Oregon's Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation determined in 1995 that lessthan 20% of the log volume harvested just in the central Oregon region alone found its way to secondary manufacturers in the Northwest. Eighty percent of the total lumber volume (approximately 1.8 billion board feet of timber) was processed into value-added product outside the western region. This equated to between 4,000 and 25,000 missed job opportunities for the region because commodity lumber was redirected elsewhere.Increasing value-added wood product manufacturing in forest communities throughout the world may be as crittical for achieving sustainable forestry as implementing new forest management practices. Making more with less, maximizing on the resources sustainably harvested, and converting wood waste into wood profits and full-time, family-wage jobs are all fundamental components of value-added wood processing. They provide the framework for achieving sustainable forestry and sustainable community development.Parsons Pine Products, located in Ashland, Oregon, a small community of 14,000 people based in the heart of spotted owl territory, has been a pioneer and a leading advocate of value-added wood processing for the last fifty years. Once considered, by many in the industry, a maverick operation that often challenged traditional production assumptions and standard lumber grading rules, today Parsons Pine Products has emerged as a unique example of sustainable forest practices that turn trash boards into cash rewards. Its experiences in sustainable forest management SFM can be instructive for an industry in transition.

Download or read book Oregon s Forest Products Industry and Timber Harvest 2013 with Trends Through 2014 written by Eric A. Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conservation and Development of Nontimber Forest Products in the Pacific Northwest written by Bettina Von Hagen and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompasses literature on the historic & current scope of nontimber forest product industries in the Pacific NW & includes references on international markets & trade that bear on these industries. Key themes are: biological & socioeconomic aspects of resource management for sustainable production; procedures for identifying, monitoring, & inventorying important resources; means for technical innovation & resource development; & public education. Keywords at the end of each annotation are organized in an index that references species, geographic location, & key themes, topics, & organizations.

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Download or read book The Oregon Forest Products Industry written by Gary L. Fuqua and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Value Added Forest Products Industry in Oregon Preliminary Research written by Kate Fitzpatrick and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Implementation of the President s Forest Plan for the Pacific Northwest written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Lands and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: