Timber Supply Analysis of the U.S. South
The latest update to the Timber Supply Analysis application brings you standard reports for the entire southern region – as a whole. So just how much timber does the South have?
| Area | 202 million acres of timberland |
| Volume | 389 billion cubic feet of timber |
| Weight | 12 billion green short tons of timber |
| Growth | 16 billion cubic feet per year
500 million green short tons per year |
| Removals | 9 billion cubic feet per year
286 million green short tons per year |
| G:R Ratio | 1.76 (volume basis)
1.75 (weight basis) |
See for yourself (with much more detail!) by going to the app and selecting “U.S. South” in the standard reports toolbox.
In this latest update, we also updated the data again, so all data is current as of September 2, 2020. Remember, multi-state analyses use the most recent data common to all states in the analysis. Here’s a rundown on the current status:
| 2019 | | Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas (East) |
| 2018 | | Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia |
| 2017 | | Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma (East), Tennessee |
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