How to Use board foot in a Sentence

board foot

noun
  • The 2 million board feet of wood were treated with metallic salts as a fire retardant.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The sprawling lumber mill produces about 20 million board feet of lumber a year sold across two dozen states.
    — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Roughly one million board feet of sellable timber had been removed, and only a few of the largest larch remained.
    — Laura Yale, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Timber sales peaked several decades ago at about 12 billion board feet amid widespread clear-cutting of forests.
    — Matthew Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • However, the increase in the number of board feet of usable lumber has not grown as quickly recently.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The Forest Service has sold about 3 billion board feet of timber annually for the last decade.
    — Matthew Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Those imports rose to a high of 22 billion board feet (52 million cubic meters) by 2005.
    — Adam Taylor, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The sawmill is expected to produce 240 million board feet of timber annually.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al.com, 2 July 2019
  • The sawmill is one of the largest pine lumber mills in Wisconsin, turning out about 12 million board feet of lumber annually, the firm’s website says.
    — Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2019
  • If only one percent of those logs escaped and somehow eluded beachcombers, that means 100 million board feet of merchantable timber became driftwood each year.
    — Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Last June, ferocious winds blew down over 12 million board feet, the unit measurement of lumber, mostly pine, which threw off the harvesting schedule.
    — Cara Buckley Jamie Kelter Davis, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Canadian mills last year curtailed 2 billion board feet in annual lumber production after beetles and wildfires drove up log costs and tariffs cut into mills’ margins.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Lumber prices fell by more than 6 percent over two days after Thursday's pause to $651 per thousand board feet, the Financial Times reported.
    — William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
  • It is projected to produce approximately 250 million board feet annually.
    — Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The annual volume of timber the division puts up for sale has averaged 227 million board feet a year in the west side forests covered by the forest management plan, said Liz Dent, chief of the state forest division.
    — oregonlive, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The current volume has not recovered to prerecession levels, rising only to 12 billion board feet (28 million cubic meters) in 2024.
    — Adam Taylor, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, agency leaders directed foresters to focus on sales that generated maximum revenues and to increase harvest levels to 245 million board feet a year, the highest sustainable level under its current policy.
    — oregonlive, 20 Oct. 2019
  • As for logging, about 6 million board feet of timber is forfeited on Oregon’s side of the monument each year, according to federal estimates — a small fraction of the state’s production, but still troubling, according to some local businesses.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Historically, prices for Canadian lumber have averaged about US$330 per thousand board feet ($140 per cubic meter).
    — Adam Taylor, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Rex Lumber currently operates three sawmills in Florida and Mississippi, producing a total of 575 million board feet annually.
    — William Thornton, AL.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, import prices soared to almost $800 per thousand board feet ($340 per cubic meter).
    — Adam Taylor, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But since peaking in 2021 and 2022, prices have dropped significantly to $436 per thousand board feet ($185 per cubic meter) by 2024.
    — Adam Taylor, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025

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