Excerpt from The Timber Industries of Maryland

Forest industries used over 42 million cubic feet of timber from the forests of Maryland in 1975. Almost 58 percent of this volume was from hardwood trees. Sawlogs were the major timber product, accounting for slightly more than 55 percent of the total harvest in Maryland. Pulpwood production ranked second in volume, accounting for 33 percent of the total. Other timber products that made up a minor portion of the harvest were veneer and cooperage logs, piling, poles, posts, mine timbers, and handle stock.

Overall, the timber harvest in Maryland has decreased 25 percent since the last industry sur vey was made in 1963, and 19 percent since 1952. Even though the production of most products declined between 1963 and 1975, two products showed substantial increases: the harvest of veneer logs and pulpwood increased 42 and 27 percent respectively.

These production gains were due entirely to an increase in the use of softwoods for pulpwood and veneer. The softwood harvest for pulpwood increased from million cubic feet in 1963 to million cubic feet in 1975 and the softwood veneer-log harvest increased from cubic feet to million cubic feet. The veneer log production was stimulated by the establishment of a softwood plywood plant on Maryland's eastern shore in 1967. This plywood plant is the only one using. Softwoods in the Northeast.

In 1975, most of the industrial timber harvest came from eastern Maryland (fig. The 17 million cubic-foot harvest from the South Eastern Shore Unit represented 39 percent of the state total. Although the North Central Unit ranked second in volume harvested - 11 million cubic feet - a greater volume of sawlogs was harvested from this unit than from any of the other units. The Western Unit had the largest pulpwood harvest from hardwoods; the million cubic feet of pulpwood production was 89 percent of the hardwood total for Maryland. Charles County, in the Southern Unit, was the state's largest hardwood sawlog producer in 1975 million board feet); Worcester County produced the largest volume of softwood saw logs million board feet).

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