Production Economics of Private Forestry: A Comparison of Industrial and Nonindustrial Forest Owners
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A concern in the forestry literature is the perceived difference in production behavior between industrially owned forest land and land managed by nonindustrial private forest (NIPJ?) owners (Clawson; Binkley; USDA Forest Service). For instance, in the southern United States, a large share of the region’s softwood timber production (35%) comes from the relatively small share of forested acreage (23%) owned by forest industries. A much larger share of the region’s forest lands (67%) is held by NIPF owners, but they produce a smaller share of the region’s softwood timber products (58%) from their lands (USDA Forest Service). Numerous public intervention attempts have been made to improve NIPF output (Boyd and Hyde). The differences in relative output reflect dif-
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