Acknowledgements: This research was supported under a Joint Venture Agreement (06-JV099) between U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service’s, Rocky Mountain Research Station (Flagstaff, AZ) and the Department of Economics, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM). We thank Carl Edminster and Carolyn Sieg (RMRS) for research support. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of t...

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