A Landowner's Guide to Selling Standing Timber - the Ontario ...

A LANDOWNER’S GUIDE TO SELLING STANDING TIMBERAppendix 9: Heating Value of Some Native Tree SpeciesAPPENDIX 9SpeciesBTUs for Air-Dried CordRock elm 32,000,000White oak 30,600,000Bitternut hickory 29,200,000Sugar maple 29,000,000Beech 27,800,000Red oak 27,300,000Yellow birch 26,200,000White ash 25,000,000White elm 24,500,000Red maple 24,000,000Tamarack 24,000,000Black cherry 23,500,000White birch 23,400,000Silver maple 21,700,000Manitoba maple 19,300,000Large tooth aspen 18,200,000Hemlock 17,900,000Trembling aspen 17,700,000White pine 17,100,000Basswood 17,000,000White cedar 16,300,000White spruce 16,200,000BTU: British Thermal Unit — the heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of waterone degree Fahrenheit.Air-dried wood contains approximately 20% moisture and will yield about 5,800 BTUs per pound. Green wood containingabout 60% moisture will yield only 4,100 BTUs per pound. The presence of gums, tannins, resins and oils in some speciesslightly increases the heating value.61