Wisconsin County Forest Productivity

The importance of the County Forests to Wisconsin's economic health continues to increase. County Forests sustain over 30,000 full-time jobs derived from logging, trucking, paper production, manufactured building materials, and lumber. Many of these jobs are in such businesses as the expanding printing industry and are located far from the forested northland.

In addition, the lands managed by these 29 counties provide an important recreation resource to complement our state's valuable tourism industry. As population increases, the need for accessible lands unquestionably will assume an ever more important role.

Forest Productivity Compiled by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Years	# Sales	Acres	$ Stumpage	Cord Equivalents
1940	-	-	$18,000	-
1960	-	-	$6,400,000	-
1995	1066	54,022	$10,495,187	838,726
1996	889	44,025	$11,262,245	735,775
1997	863	44,411	$13,444,619	719,817
1998	666	36,388	$11,824,737	565,156
1999	835	43,721	$15,431,106	694,693
2000	812	42,234	$16,550,136	647,723
2001	752	40,543	$16,047,381	642,671
2002	778	41,235	$17,976,414	642,142
2003	824	48,225	$21,270,916	728,975
2004	804	44,943	$21,496,219	730,027
2005	758	44,800	$23,583,189	732,417
2006	687	41,779	$24,901,256	677,349
2007	751	44,199	$27,227,721	700,928
2008	808	50,238	$30,355,825	829,431
2009	793	47,765	$30,287,089	852,657
2010	210	48,808	$29,643,055	834,916