ABSTRACT
Modest expansion in US consumption of wood for energy—on the order of 150 percent over 2006 levels—could have a small impact on forest sector markets and trade over the next couple of decades, provided there is a substantial cushion of wood residue supplies from logging and mill residues due to a recovery in housing construction and increase in wood product output, along with excess supply of pulpwood due to stable to declining paper/paperboard production and increasing timber inventory.
