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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (41992)	11/27/2005 11:47:47 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The problem between the two countries is how the stumpage, fees are applied. Stumpage fees are the charge to harvest lumber. In the U.S. the timber is on private land and the rights are auctioned off to the highest bidder. Unlike the US, most of Canada's timber is on government land and stumpage fees are set by the Canadian government. Couldn't Canada negate the US claim simply by auctioning lumber rights on government land? After all, much of US lumber also comes from national forests and that's how it's done.