. Economic impacts of interregional competition in the forest products industry during the 1970's : the South and the Pacific Northwest. Forests and forestry Economic aspects Northwest, Pacific; Forests and forestry Economic aspects Southern States; Regional economic disparities. The South's increasing share of employment of the Nation's forest products in- dustry did not result from the Pacific Northwest's declining share of employment in lumber and wood products but rather from shifts in the paper and allied products and the wood furniture segments. Between 1970 and 1980, these shifts had li
. Economic impacts of interregional competition in the forest products industry during the 1970's : the South and the Pacific Northwest. Forests and forestry Economic aspects Northwest, Pacific; Forests and forestry Economic aspects Southern States; Regional economic disparities. The South's increasing share of employment of the Nation's forest products in- dustry did not result from the Pacific Northwest's declining share of employment in lumber and wood products but rather from shifts in the paper and allied products and the wood furniture segments. Between 1970 and 1980, these shifts had little bearing on what was happening in the Pacific Northwest because paper and allied products and wood furniture manufacturing were not very important compared with the region's production of lumber and wood products. Except for the decreasing shares in the Pacific Northwest and the mid-South, shifts in softwood lumber and wood products were mainly the result of secondary processing located near large and growing metropolitan areas. The South's changing share of lumber and wood products employment reflects competition between sawmills and plywood mills for high quality sawtimber. Price data suggest that this competition was most intense in the mid-South and in eastern Texas where the southern plywood industry had its beginning. For exam- ple, during the 1977-79 upswing in the Nation's economy, the change and level of delivered prices for southern pine sawtimber were generally higher in the mid- South and in eastern Texas than elsewhere in the South. Index of average delivered price of southern pine sawtimber, 1977-79 Price index, South = 100. TN VA NC GA SC FL AL AR MS TX LA Source: Data Resources, Inc. (1984). Competition caused many of the older, less efficient sawmills to close between 1970 and 1980. The mid-South, where price competition was most intense, had a higher rate of closures between 1970 and 1980 ( Bureau of the Census 1971, 1981) than the rest of the South. T
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