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To: country bob who wrote (110654)	1/18/2006 2:46:45 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Each National Forest determines how much timber it can harvest in perpetuity while maintaining environmental standards. If it is budgeted for this level of harvest, and for a long time it was, a Forest will prepare that amount of timber for sale every year. The timber is advertised and sold to the highest bidder, who then builds the road infrastructure needed to harvest the timber. The companies get road credits for roads that they build to help offset the stumpage that they have to pay when the timber is eventually harvested. When harvested, the companies pay for the timber. Reforestation and other environmental program costs are put into a trust fund and used for that purpose. The rest of the money, if any, goes into the federal treasury. Managed forests are far more productive than unmanaged ones. Old growth on the stump, this timber is growing slowly or not at all. Theoretically, one could harvest a greater proportion of this old growth timber sooner rather than later, and replace it with fast growing young timber, thus increasing the total growth rate, but allowing the harvest rate to rise and fall according to a plan that maximizes total yield over time. The last I heard, allowing harvest to depart from non-declining even flow was not the policy for most or all national forests. Usually, harvest rates are diminished by environmental considerations, but some national forests are now producing far less than they could while still remaining within standards, simply because the policy and budget does not support the potential. When this happens, and construction rates continue to rise as they have recently, the deficit comes from other sources. CAnada and Russia come to mind.