pulpwood

These days, the Jordans grow a lot of pine, sending much of the pulpwood to the I.P. mill in Rome.

The derailed cars were either empty or carrying pulpwood or sand.

The company is building a new pellet plant in Lucedale, which should provide a good outlet for pine pulpwood, he said.

Since transporting cheap wood chips over long distances is financially unfeasible, pulpwood producers are dependent on the fortunes and demand of nearby mills, said Richard Zabel, executive director of the Western Forestry and Conservation Association.

No longer the hard-working pulpwood man, known to white people almost exclusively for what he could do with a saw in the pine trees, Walter now represented something more worrisome.