Sentence examples for major timber from inspiring English sources

Although about three-fourths of the forests are hardwoods, paper pulp is the major timber product.

"They have the capacity of eating through major timber in a couple of years".

Douglas firs are a major timber and Christmas tree species (estimated at one billion dollars).

The country has major timber and paper industries and is the world's leading producer of palm oil.

This time the advance was stimulated by the need for forest products and by the conviction on the part of the major timber companies that they must protect their raw material supply.

The Monterey pine (Pinus radiata), for instance, is a diminutive and unproductive tree on the coast of California, but it has become a major timber tree as a result of rapid growth in plantations in New Zealand.

The Lugo province is one of the major timber-producing regions in Spain.

Arkhangelsk is a major timber-exporting port and one of the western terminal ports of the North Sea route.

The Weyerhaeuser Corporation, the giant paper and forest products company, is based in Federal Way, Wash., and the state is a major timber-producing area.

On July 15th a new study found that worldwide harvests of illegal timber dropped by 22% over the past decade, with declines reaching as high as 50-75% in the major timber-producing countries of Brazil, Indonesia and Cameroon.

The governors of the Northwest's four major timber-producing states are pushing the formation of an export-promotion consortium with their counterparts in western Canada to ease overseas barriers to sale of the region's softwood lumber.