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How Much Wood Does Idaho Produce?
Idaho is home to 247 forest products plants, including 64 lumber mills. A typical lumber mill will produce between 20 and 50 million board feet of lumber each year. In 1992, Idaho produced 1,958 billion board feet of lumber and 500,000 tons of paper with a combined wholesale value exceeding one billion dollars.
How Much Wood Do We Use?
The demand for wood products is growing at the same rate as world population, about 2% per year. The average American uses 43 cubic feet of wood and 681 pounds of paper each year. In other words, each of us uses about a ton of wood in a year, the equivalent of one 100-foot-tall tree that is 16 inches in diameter.
Together, U.S. consumers used 42.2 billion board feet of softwood lumber in 1991.
 
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