In 2002 the National Hardwood Lumber Association (American) released a report under the Annual Symposium titled, Trends in the use of Materials for Pallets and other Factors Affecting the Demand for Hardwood Products.
The report goes over the consumption of hardwood over softwood and the a break down by species. As you may be able to see above, I know the picture is very sm
all, wood consumption jumped significantly between 1992-1999. However, the amount of softwood lumber used holds the largest increase of 77 million board feet in 1999 from 20 million board feet from 1992. Between 1995 and 1999 consumption of hardwood dropped by 10 million board feet.
In figure 4 (below) it gives the break up of solid hardwoods used in 1999: mixed hardwoods (51%), Oak (31%), other (5%), Yellow Poplar (11%), Alder (2%).
Consumption of Hardwood Species (millions of board feet)
Figure 5 (below) gives the break up of softwood consumption by species: Spruce-pine-fir (25%), Southern Pine (48%), Hem-fir (11%), Douglas-Fir (10%), Other (6%).
Consumption of Softwood by Species (millions of board feet)
Source:
University of Vermont
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