{"id":24037,"date":"2022-05-13T16:09:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T20:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24037"},"modified":"2022-05-13T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T20:09:49","slug":"northwest-vs-southeast-timber-industry-grows-where-it-thrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/05\/northwest-vs-southeast-timber-industry-grows-where-it-thrives\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest vs. Southeast: Timber industry grows where it thrives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While many people think of the Pacific Northwest as the main area of lumber production, the economic reality is that the industry&#8217;s center of gravity has shifted to the South, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluemountaineagle.com\/news\/wildfires\/oregon\/northwest-vs-southeast-timber-industry-grows-where-it-thrives\/article_bd93eb02-b691-5b27-acfe-41be3eac6b0c.html?fbclid=IwAR2Qk4o3NoKYBHX7QVyv_pkC6xyOfZ8XpBTpUye9tXxaM-9qJqHemVXILxE\">recent article in <em>Blue Mountain Eagle<\/em><\/a>. According to the article, the NW&#8217;s thunder has been stolen by the South\u2019s abundant timber supplies and looser environmental regulations, which have fueled a boom in new production facilities, resulting in the investment of billions of dollars here. The article looks at some additional factors such as planting of trees in marginal agricultural lands, which is less of an option in the PNW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/Boyer-long-leaf-pine-AL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"733\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/Boyer-long-leaf-pine-AL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/Boyer-long-leaf-pine-AL.jpg 733w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/Boyer-long-leaf-pine-AL-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/Boyer-long-leaf-pine-AL-237x138.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Natural longleaf pine forest in Alabama.  Source: William Boyer, US Forest Service.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many people think of the Pacific Northwest as the main area of lumber production, the economic reality is that the industry&#8217;s center of gravity has shifted to the South, according to a recent article in Blue Mountain Eagle. According to the article, the NW&#8217;s thunder has been stolen by the South\u2019s abundant timber supplies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-forestry","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24038,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24037\/revisions\/24038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}