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Abstract
National forests contain only a small percentage of the sawtimber inventory in the Central Hardwood Region but many have proportionately more high quality timber than adjacent private lands. As a result, these forests are important to sawmill and other primary processors in this region. In this paper we analyze timber sales from 14 national forests in the Central Hardwood Region to determine the impact of changing forest polices on the forest-products industry. Since the mid1980’s, sales of hardwood and softwood sawtimber have been declining steadily, while the relative volumes of higher value species have increased. Because of this change in the mix of products sold and increasing prices of higher valued hardwood species and pine, total revenue from timber sales have declined moderately, while physical volumes sold have declined by more than 50 percent
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Citation
Luppold, William G.; Baumgras, John E. 1999. Changes in National Forest timber sales in the Central Hardwood Region. In: Stringer, Jeffrey W.; Loftis, David L., eds. 1999. Proceedings, 12th central hardwood forest conference; 1999 February 28-March 1-2; Lexington, KY. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-24. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 293 p
