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Abstract
The lack of data about employment in a number of categories indicates that we do not have full understanding of employment associated with forestry. But for some categories, employment has been declining--especially for wood furniture manufacturing, and to a lesser degree for the pulp and paper industries. This is due in part to lower competitiveness with respect to production and import of products from other countries. There has been a decline in jobs in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, but jobs in state forestry agencies are steady to increasing. Increasing participation in forest-based recreation suggests increases in forest-based recreation jobs. It would appear that in the recent past there has been a shift in the types of jobs that forests support.
Keywords
Forest products industry,
employees,
supply,
demand,
United States,
forests,
forestry,
employment,
forestry workers,
pulp and paper industry,
forest recreation,
labor market,
occupations,
personnel
Citation
Skog, Kenneth; Howard, James; Westby, Rebecca; Alexander, Susan J.; Bergstrom, John; Cordell, Ken; Hill, Elizabeth. 2011. Criterion 6, indicator 36 : employment in the forest sector. Research note FPL-RN-0322. Madison, WI : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 2011: 11 p.
