Link: https://nreconomics.com/reports/2016-07-28_16-04_OR_Below-Cost.pdf.
Key excerpts:
- “The sale of timber from federal and state lands in western Oregon declined in the 1990s in large part because of resistance to below-cost timber sales, in which sale revenues didn’t cover the costs that logging imposed directly on taxpayers and indirectly on non-timber sectors of the economy.”
- “ Using peer-reviewed research and data recently developed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), this study shows that today’s below-cost timber sales are far more severe than those of the 1990s.”
- “Logging that jeopardizes habitat for sensitive species generates costs at least 3.5 times the value of the timber.”