Timber Supply : Mississippi and the South

Introduction The availability of timber has become an issue across tbc South as supplies from other regions are constrained and as demand for timber continues to grow. Whiie any individual state or landowner will have a small impact on national timber supphes, the avaibbiliv of local timber will have a profound (SERTS), harvest, inventory and growth trc.nds are developed for both nonindustrial and forest industry owners for sub-stat-e regions across tbc South. Although the South contains only 40 percent of the nation’s timberland area, this region produces 53 percent of our softwood harvest and GO percent of the hardwood hatvest. National level with only 10 percent of the South’s timberland, but 12 and 15 percent of Southern softwood and hardwood timber removals. The price increases in the South will affect timber removals in all areas of the South, but based on current harvest, growth and inventory, will cause shifts in harvest between subregions. effect on local industries. In Mississippi, for example, furniture rnanuficturing requires largc-diicccr hardwoods and when not available locally, this industry “Because over 75 percent of Mississippi’s removals