• Wood has a high strength-to-weight ratio. Compared strength for strength, pine and spruce are 16 times lighter than steel and 5 times lighter than concrete.

• As a construction material, wood is 4 times more efficient as an insulator than an equivalent thickness of cinder block, 6 times more efficient than brick, 15 times more efficient than concrete, 306 times more efficient than steel, and 1,770 times more efficient than aluminum.

• To build a 2000-square-foot house takes approximately 16,000 board-feet of lumber.
A typical wooden pencil can write about 45,000 words, or draw a line about 35 miles long.

• A cord of wood (a stack of logs 4 feet x 4 feet x 8 feet) could yield 2700 daily newspapers, 4,300,000 postage stamps, or 7,500,000 toothpicks.

• In the United States alone, it takes approximately 57 million trees per year just to produce the catalogs that are made.

• In one year, an acre of trees can absorb as much carbon as is produced by a car driven up to 8700 miles.

• Every man, woman, and child in the US “consumes” about 74 cubic feet of wood each year. That wood comes in many forms, from construction lumber to furniture to tissue paper to packaging and energy. If the 74 cubic feet were dry Douglas Fir, it would weigh over 2300 pounds.