| Winn leads state
in '04 timber harvest income Winn Parish, home of the Louisiana Forest Festival and billing itself proudly as Louisiana's "Heart of the FOrest," had the highest income from stumpage value of timber - ioncome to landowners from sale of timber - in Louisiana, at $39,612,049 for the year 2004, according to the report published by the Louisiana Depoartment of Agriculture & FOrestry, Bob Odom, Commissioner. According to the LDAF report, pine sawtimber was the big oincome producer in Winn, at $19,762,667, followed by chip-n-saw at $10,842,818; pine pulpwood, $6,425,555; hardwood sawtimber, $1,557,170; and hardwood pulpwood, $1,012,839 Statewide, total stumpage values to landowners was $593,094,280, led by pine sawtimber at $343,955,177; chip-n-saw $104,613,635; pine pulpwood $75,902,970; hadwood sawtimber $48,124,030; and hardwood pulpwood, #30,498,468. (Chip-n-saw is a designation for in-between size logs, which produce one or more cuts of lumber from a stem, with the slabbed-off sides being chipped for pulp or fuel chips.) Statewide, sawtimber harvested amounted to 1.221 billion board feet, pulpwood 6.337 million cords, all of which yielded $15,139,729 in severance taxes for the State of Louisiana. As the highest preoducing parish in the State, Winn contributed $1,018,326 to the severance tax total. The top ten producing parishes in the State in 2004,
according to the report issued by Paul Frey, State
Forester, were: |
