Oregon’s timber harvest in 2003 was the highest for six years at 4 billion board feet.
The state’s forestry department attributed the rise, which was 2% up on 2002, to a growth in harvests on all ownership classes except forest industry and Native American forestlands.
Forest industry volumes dropped from 2.98 billion board feet in 2002 to 2.95 billion board feet last year, accounting for 74% of the total harvest.
