 Forest Resources
The Katahdin Region
of Maine
The "woodbasket" of the Northeast, is on the edge of the largest
undeveloped forest area in the eastern U.S. It is also home to Katahdin Paper, LLC. and its Forest Products Division. Katahdin Paper, LLC has no internal use for
its extensive inventory of hardwoods. The region also has several other large
and medium-sized forest owners who are seeking nearby hardwood markets.
 Where does all of the hardwood go? The region's hardwood cut is currently shipped all over the eastern U.S. and Canada. Although there are many wood product businesses in the region, the Katahdin area grows much more hardwood than it cuts and cuts much more hardwood than it manufactures locally.
So, if you need hardwood, consider locating your hardwood plant in the Katahdin
Region of Maine. We have the wood supply and the business assistance programs
to make it well worth your while to look at our region. And, if that were not
enough, we have the best fishing, hunting, and all around outdoor life in the
East.
The potential annual allowable harvest that can be sustained off of this representative landbase was developed using Hanzlik's Formula. This method is preferred when there is a preponderance of overmature growing stock, as it attempts to spread out this entire merchantable volume component over a long enough period to allow the second growth stands to become merchantable just prior to the exhaustion of the old-growth.
The sustainable harvest level is developed from both the planned elimination of overmature stands and the harvest of the mean annual increment of the immature stands. This harvest level was calculated individually for each of KP's three Forests and then pro-rated to the entire acreage associated with each Forest's sphere of influence.
The harvest volumes by species and products are relative indications of gross availability. Additional unknown deductions for accessibility and operability are left to the discretion of the reader.
For detailed US Forest Service forest inventories and analysis visit the USFS
Data Base Retrieval site
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