20.3: Percent who described the forest products industry as healthy in a phone survey

32: Percent who considered it dying, same survey

$379,761: Average paper sales per employee

$421,814: U.S. industry average

$532: Average cost to make a ton of magazine-style paper

$582: U.S. industry average

$1.24 billion: Value of paper as gross state product, 2003

3.9 million: Tons of paper made, 1997

3.7 million: Tons of paper made, 2001

1: Number of new paper-making machines installed in state in the last 20 years

1: Number of paper mills currently considering a machine rebuild, as indicated to the Department of Environmental Protection

Source: Maine Future Forest Economy Project, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, American Forest & Paper Association