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pulpwood
noun
Wood, usually softwood, used for pulping to make paper
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Mile after mile of palm-oil plantation alternates with mile after mile of regimented lines of acacia trees, grown for pulpwood.
By WWF's estimate, of the forest cover in Riau lost in the past 25 years, 29% was cleared for palm-oil plantations and 24% for pulpwood by the big producers themselves not counting large areas cleared by their suppliers.The extent of illegal logging, like every other statistic on Indonesia's forests, is disputed.
Together these northern softwood forests form a world resource of tremendous importance, yielding the bulk of the lumber and pulpwood handled commercially.
Pine, balsam, and spruce are harvested for pulpwood, while aspen, once considered a "weed" tree, has become the preferred species for waferboard manufacturing and accounts for about seven-tenths of the commercially harvested wood in Minnesota.
Private woodlots yield both hardwood and softwood for lumber, pulpwood, and fuel.
Rotation periods for pulpwood in northern Europe and North America extend to 50 years.
Resonant spruce wood is used for sounding boards in pianos and the bodies of violins, as well as in construction and for boats and barrels and as pulpwood.
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The western forests contain excellent hardwoods and pulpwoods, while the drier, poor-quality eastern forests yield wood for chips.
The state's forests are a major source of hardwoods, but they also yield pulpwoods in significant quantities.
The chief European pulpwoods are Norway spruce, Scotch pine, and various hardwoods.
Those associations included the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, American Pulpwood Association and the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
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