Logging Facts
ALC-Idaho’s logging and hauling contractor businesses are family-owned and operated, and are the backbone of Idaho’s forested rural communities! Learn more about the economic impacts of Idaho’s forest products industry.
ECONOMIC IMPACT
- Idaho’s forest products industry directly employees an estimated 17,154 people and there are another 11,642 support jobs for an overall total of 28,796 jobs!
- Each million board feet of timber harvested in Idaho provides 31 jobs (including 18 jobs in the forest products industry).
- Average annual wages for logging and hauling jobs range from $28,950 to $88,000!
- The forest products industry generates $2.245 billion in labor income and adds $2.9 billion to Idaho’s Gross State Product!
AN ESSENTIAL BUSINESS
- Idaho’s loggers harvest 0.9 billion board feet of timber each year — most is harvested and hauled by ALC-Idaho members!
- We harvest trees so consumers can have the products they rely on every day including toilet paper, books, lumber, boxes, instruments and more.
- Almost all wood harvested in Idaho is processed here.
- 90 percent of all primary wood products are exported out of state.
- The average American uses 43 cubic feet of wood and 681 pounds of paper each year — that is over a ton of wood each year or the equivalent of one 100-foot-tall tree that is 18 inches in diameter!
LOGGERS CARE
- Idaho loggers work hard to bring you the products you need while ensuring a healthy forest continues to grow.
- Loggers are highly skilled and utilize high-tech equipment.
- Loggers work to help foresters implemnt plans to keep Idaho’s forests growing healthy and strong.
- Idaho law requires replanting after an area has been logged. Loggters support this law.
- Each year more than 18 million seedlings are hand-planted in Idaho forests, while Mother Nature plans millions more!