Special Forest Products Reports and Information

Special Forest Products are products or natural resources that are not the traditional timber and fiber products. Another name for special forest products is non-convertible products, because they are products that are not converted into board foot or cubic foot measure. Examples include such products as floral greenery, Christmas trees and boughs, mushrooms, transplants (trees, shrubs or herbaceous plants), cones, medicinal plants, cuttings, herbs, nuts, berries, decorative wood, and pitch.

• Definitions and Examples of Special Forest Products
• Other Special Forest Products Links

Detailed information about the sale of special forest products from the National Forest System and National Grasslands has been available since Fiscal Year (FY) 1977. A national summary was first made available in the FY 1998 Report of the Forest Service. These special forest products data come from cut and sold data coming from the Automated Timber Sale Accounting System (ATSA). The first link below provides access to the cut and sold reports where this data can be found. Both the regional and the servicewide products reports provide complete information. At the top of each of these cut and sold report is a summary table by size class that shows the total value of non-convertible forest products sold and harvested each FY. Then, each report lists each forest product, with the special forest products shown in the last half of each section of the report.

• Cut and Sold Reports
• See a FY 1998-2002 comparison of special forest products sold.

National Forest System Regions

Links to Regional websites with Special Forest Products Information Data.

• Southwestern Region (Region 3: includes AZ and NM)
• Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6: includes OR and WA)

Location: http://www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/products/sfp/index.shtml/index.
Last modified: Monday, 28-Nov-2011 18:37:35 EST