How to Use pulpwood in a Sentence

pulpwood

noun
  • Saw logs are found by the river systems, but most of the cutting is done for pulpwood.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
  • With so many men lost to the war, the agricultural and pulpwood industries in the region had suffered.
    — Nedra Rhone, ajc, 23 May 2018
  • Conifers also are valuable to the forest industry as pulpwood and lumber.
    — John Myers, Twin Cities, 25 May 2017
  • The forest giants went down before the saw and ax, and anything left was bulldozed to the ground so that pine trees might be planted for pulpwood.
    — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The order limits the movement of ash trees for planting and ash tree products such as logs, pulpwood, lumber and firewood from areas that are considered likely to harbor the pest.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Today, cottonwood tree bark is harvested for pulpwood, wooden kitchen utensils and sometimes, the sticks that hold summertime treats like popsicles.
    — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2026
  • The vast majority was fueled by palm oil and other agriculture such as coffee, but pulpwood plantations have also replaced large sections of rainforest.
    — NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021
  • At one point there were as many as 20 sawmills in the area, and the railroad was at the center of the region’s early economy, delivering pulpwood to a paper mill near Houston.
    — Andrea Salcedo, Luz Lazo and Lee Powell, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • The property was not rezoned before its use changed, and still carried the zoning designation for a pulpwood (timber) yard which officials say is not compatible with its current usage.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The Escanaba mill has turned wood products from that environment into paper for more than a century, taking in more than 4,250 tons of pulpwood a day.
    — Freep.com, 23 Apr. 2023
  • In 1929, when a timber cruiser who was mapping a giant pulpwood sale on Admiralty Island shot a bear and then was killed by it, the anti-bear rhetoric reached a boiling point.
    — Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 16 June 2020
  • Even though the rate of rainforest destruction has slowed, environmentalists worry that the demand for pulpwood, which is harvested for the production of paper and viscose, will fuel the clearing of more forestland.
    — NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The County informed the owners of the rail yard that the operations violated its existing zoning of I-3, with a restrictive covenant that limited the property to use as a pulpwood yard.
    — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • In 1979, around 166,000 acre of land in Chile were covered with pine and eucalyptus, used as construction material or pulpwood.
    — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Worldwide, paper recycling already shrinks demand for pulpwood from forests and plantations by 484 million metric tons (MMT) annually.
    — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The two suspects — who at the time of the crime in 1983 worked as laborers in the local pulpwood mills — were spotted by multiple witnesses talking to Coggins outside a gas station that was just across the street from People’s Choice.
    — Christian Boone, ajc, 17 June 2018
  • Massive swaths of tropical rainforest in Indonesia were slash-and-burned for industrial plantation and pulpwood, resulting in an impenetrable haze that cloaked the peninsula and the surrounding Southeast Asian countries for months.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2013
  • An outbreak of pine beetles and 2024's Hurricane Helene helped contribute to a glut of pulpwood in the market, however, which drove down the value of that wood and made loggers even less interested in investing resources on a small lot like Blair's.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025

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