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Wood Industry Has
Impact in Virginia
Most anywhere you travel in Virginia, you find pulpwood trucks. Each truck represents $25,000 of purchasing power in that community each year, says W. A. McElfresh of the forestry department at Virginia Tech.
This information and more is contained in a new publication, “Impact on a Commonwealth," that tells the story of Virginia’s pulp and paper for the domestic and world market. Pulp results when wood is cooked into small f ibers. These fibers are reassembled into paper. Fifty-eight professional foresters are employed by pulp and paper industries in Virginia. Many other foresters in the Virginia Di vision of Forestry, consulting forester organizations, Cooperative Extension Service and the U. S. Forest Service help manage Virginia’s forests. Sixty-five percent of the state is forested. These forests produce the raw ma:erial used by the pulp and paper industry, v
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