Washington’s forest products industry and timber harvest, 2020

Abstract

We conducted a census of the 2020 Washington forest products industry. We asked any facility that purchased roundwood or purchased residuals from roundwood users about their mill characteristics, employment, inputs, outputs, residual production and disposition, and sales value. We also collected data from facilities in surrounding states that purchased roundwood from Washington. We identified 83 primary processing facilities, nearly 3 billion board feet Scribner of timber harvest, and more than 4 billion bone-dry units of generated residuals. We compared the census results to similar efforts in the past by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources within Washington, and the University of Montana, Bureau of Business and Economic Research in neighboring Western States.

Citation

Scott, Samuel G.; Koch, Lucas P.; Simmons, Eric A.; Morgan, Todd A.; Dillon, Thale; Christensen, Glenn A. 2025. Washington’s forest products industry and timber harvest, 2020. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-1032. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 21 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/pnw-gtr-1032.