Renewable Building Materials

Thanks to state policy that prioritizes maintaining forestland for the many environmental, social and economic benefits our forests provide, Oregon has the same amount of forestland now as we did 100 years ago.

Oregon’s timber harvest is renewable. Because we replant three trees for every one we harvest, private timber harvest remains renewable and sustainable, helping to make everything from homes, to common wood products like cardboard and paper, to millwork products such as cabinets and furniture, to mass timber innovations like tall wood buildings and skyscrapers using engineered wood products such as cross-laminated timber, glue-laminated timber, and mass plywood panels.

The lumber produced from those highly productive forests make Oregon the number one national producer of softwood lumber and plywood. Because of Oregon’s best-in-class sustainable forest practices that include harvesting less than we grow every year and replanting after harvest, the annual timber harvest from private timberland has remained relatively stable around 3.8 billion board feet.