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  • Leading those was a loss of 4.06, or 7.2%, to 52.70 for Deltic Timber (NYSE), which swung to a first-quarter loss on reductions in pine-sawtimber-harvest volume and average sales price, average lumber-sales realizations and real-estate sales.

    JetBlue, AirTran Sent Lower as 2008

  • Clear boles of 5 m must be considered very rare, and the tree generally is too irregular to be particularly attractive for long sawtimber or telephone poles.

    Chapter 10 1985

  • Thinning can be practiced in pulpwood or sawtimber plantations to improve stem form, e.g., establishment at 1 x 1m with thinning to 1 x 2m or 2 x

    Chapter 7 1985

  • The wood is not suitable for sawtimber because of its small dimensions.

    Chapter 6 1983

  • To some extent it presents a peculiar question by being taken out alone for special purposes, such as poles and bolts, independent of ordinary logging of sawtimber.

    Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods Edward Tyson Allen

  • The Forest Service estimates that by protecting our cut-over and waste lands from fire and practicing care to secure reproduction after logging on our remaining virgin forest land, we can produce annually at least 27,750,000,000 cubic feet of wood, including 70,000,000,000 board feet of sawtimber.

    The School Book of Forestry Charles Lathrop Pack

  • Doubling the quantity required for home consumption, and raising it to ten billion feet per annum, to meet the increase of our population, there are still left 14 billion feet for exportation, viz., 5 billion feet of sawtimber, and 9 billion feet, or 15 million cords, of pulp-wood.

    The Forest Wealth of Canada 1907

  • At current market prices, the products of the sawtimber are worth $12.00 per M., which represents $60,000,000 for the 5 billion feet which could be exported, Pulp-wood, ready for shipment, is worth $5.00 a cord.

    The Forest Wealth of Canada 1907

  • The improvement was mainly due to a decrease in the cost of logs used to manufacture lumber as a result of the reduced price for pine sawtimber.

    unknown title 2011

  • The pine sawtimber harvest level during the current period was 207,777 tons, a 30 percent increase from 2010's third quarter harvest level of 159,487 tons.

    unknown title 2011

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