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Table 4 Percent distribution of C into primary wood products life cycle stages and disposal pools for British Columbia

From: Forest carbon in North America: annual storage and emissions from British Columbia’s harvest, 1965–2065

Time period

To

From

  

Lumber mills (M LMB )

Chip mills (M C )

Plywood mills (M PLY )

Panel mills (M PNL )

1995-2065

Lumber (PPLMB)

47

   
  

(45–56)

   
 

Plywood (PPPLY)

  

51

 
    

(51–56)

 
 

Panels (PPPNL)

   

84

     

(73–95)

 

Chips (PPCHP)

35

96.3

24

 
  

(26–38)

 

(22–27)

 
 

Panels mills (MPLY-PNL)

0

 

16

 
  

(0–11)

 

(10–17)

 
 

Combustion fuel (B)

17.9

3.2

8.5

15.5

  

(4–18)

 

(6–13)

(4.5–23)

 

Landfill wood (LW j)

0.1

0.5

0.5

0.5

  

(0–1)

 

(0–1)

(0–0.5)

Sources for the time period

[24]

[[20, 2527], B Lippke 2010 pers comm.]

[28]

[9, 29, 30]

[3133]

1980–1994

Lumber (PPLMB)

44

   
 

Plywood (PPPLY)

  

50

 
 

Chips (PPCHP)

32

78

16

 
    

(16–41)

 
 

Combustion fuel (B)

23

21

32

 
    

(7–32)

 
 

Dump wood (DW)

1

1

2

 

Sources for the time period

 

[25]

Linear interpolation

[21, 30, 3436]

 

1965–1979

Lumber (PPLMB)

40

   
  

(30–47)

   
 

Plywood (PPPLY)

  

50

 
 

Chips (PPCHP)

29

60

16

 
  

(20–40)

(53–84)

(16–41)

 
 

Combustion fuel (B)

29

38

32

 
  

(18–36)

(14–45)

(7–32)

 
 

Dump wood (DW)

2

2

2

 

Sources for the time period

 

[21, 30, 3538]

[34]

[21, 30, 3436]

 
  1. Brackets include the minimum and maximum in the underlying source data.