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Fact Book 1997

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TABLE OF CONTENTS (156KB)
 
PART I: CANADA'S FORESTS AND FOREST INDUSTRY IN A WORLD CONTEXT (60KB)
  • World Growing Stock of Non-Tropical Softwoods and Hardwoods
  • World Softwood Harvest
  • World Consumption of Forest Products
  • World Exports of Forest Products
  • World Exports of Softwood Lumber
  • World Exports of Pulp and Newsprint
PART II: CANADA'S FORESTS AND FOREST INDUSTRY (60KB)
  • Canadian Growing Stock
  • Canada's Average Annual Timber Harvest
  • Canada's Balance of Trade
  • Canada's Exports of Forest Products
  • Canadian Forest Industries, Production by Volume
  • Canadian Forestry Sector, Jobs and Economic Importance
  • Housing Starts, Canada, U.S. and Japan
PART III: BC's FORESTS AND FOREST INDUSTRY (407KB)
  • B.C. Growing Stock
  • B.C.'s Allowable Annual Cut and Volume Harvested
  • B.C. Forest Industry and the Provincial Economy
  • Gross Domestic Product of Goods-Producing Industries in B.C
  • B.C. Forest Products Exports
  • B.C. Log Harvest
  • B.C. Log Exports
  • Destination of B.C. Wood Products (By Value)
  • Destination of B.C. Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Products (By Volume)
  • B.C Forest Industry Employment
  • B.C. Lumber Production and Destination of Shipments (By Volume)
  • B.C. Lumber Production by Region
  • Transporting B.C. Lumber to Major Markets
  • B.C. Market Diversification Overseas
  • Price of Western Kiln-Dried Spruce-Pine-Fir
  • Softwood Lumber End Uses - 1996 (U.S. Market)
  • B.C. Pulp and Paper Production
  • Pulp and Paper Mills in B.C.
  • B.C. Plywood Production
  • B.C. Forest Industry Return on Assets
  • Government Revenues from the B.C. Forest Industry, Industry Earnings
  • B.C. Forest Industry Capital Expenditures
  • B.C. Forest Industry Net Earnings
PART IV: LAND USE, FOREST MANAGEMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT (844KB)
  • Ownership of Forest Land
  • Land Use in British Columbia
  • B.C. Treaty Process
  • Statements of Intent from 50 B.C. First Nations
  • Forest Land and the Timber Harvest
  • Projected Impact of a One Per Cent Reduction in the Commercial Forest Land Base in B.C.
  • Intensive Forest Management
  • Silvicultural Systems in B.C
  • Reforestation
  • Seedlings Planted in British Columbia
  • Timber Damage and Losses in B.C.
  • Energy Requirements to Manufacture Building Products
  • Production and Use of Wood Residue
  • Climate Change: Global Warming and the Forests
  • B.C. Pulp and Paper Industry Pollution Abatement
  • B.C. Pulp and Paper Industry Capital Expenditures by Purpose
  • Recycling by the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry
PART V: BRITISH COLUMBIA FOREST INDUSTRY STATISTICAL TABLES (91KB)
  • TABLE 1: B.C. Mature Standing Timber Volumes
  • TABLE 2: B.C. Trees Planted
  • TABLE 3: B.C. Log Production
  • TABLE 4: B.C. Log Exports By Country of Destination
  • TABLE 5: B.C. Log Exports By Destination and Species
  • TABLE 6: B.C. Log Production By Species and Forest Region
  • TABLE 7: B.C. Log Production By Species
  • TABLE 8: B.C. Lumber Production By Species
  • TABLE 9: B.C. Lumber Shipments By Markets
  • TABLE 10: Canada Lumber Production: Softwood and Hardwood
  • TABLE 11: B.C. Lumber Shipments
  • TABLE 12: Canadian Softwood Lumber Shipments
  • TABLE 13: Number of Housing Starts
  • TABLE 14: Number of Housing Starts - Chart
  • TABLE 15: Total Canadian Domestic Plywood Shipments
  • TABLE 16: Canada Softwood Plywood Shipments
  • TABLE 17: Canada Plywood Exports
  • TABLE 18: Canadian Imports of Softwood Plywood
  • TABLE 19: Dollar Value of Exports of all Forest Products from B.C
  • TABLE 20: Dollar Value of Exports of all Forest Products From Canada
  • TABLE 21: Canada and B.C. Pulp and Paper Production
  • TABLE 22: Number of Employees - Annual Averages
  • TABLE 23: Average Annual Exchange Rates
  • TABLE 24: B.C. Wood Chip Exports
  • TABLE 25: B.C. Forest Industry Value of Shipments
APPENDICES (156KB)
  • B.C.'s Major Softwood (Coniferous) Tree Species
  • B.C.'s Major Hardwood (Deciduous) Tree Species
  • Forest Products from B.C
  • Council of Forest Industries' Members
  • Council of Forest Industries' Offices
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