How to Use board foot in a Sentence

board foot

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• The sprawling lumber mill produces about 20 million board feet of lumber a year sold across two dozen states.
  — CBS News, 7 Dec. 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
• The cuts add up to roughly 1.1 billion board feet, according to Shawn Church, editor for wood-products price reporting firm Random Lengths.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 18 June 2019
• The sawmill is expected to produce 240 million board feet of timber annually.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al.com, 2 July 2019
• The Department of Lands has sold and overseen the harvest of 6 million board feet of timber from fire salvage and forest thinning projects in the past year alone – generating more than $1.8 million in revenue.
  — Gov. Butch Otter, idahostatesman, 8 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• It is projected to produce approximately 250 million board feet annually.
  — Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 2 Apr. 2018

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