Forest Service Timber Sale Practices and Procedures: Analysis of Alternative Systems
Description:
The Forest Service currently sells timber by (a) planning and preparing the sale, (b) offering the sale, usually at an oral auction, and (c) administering the timber harvest. Many of the concerns about the timber program have focused on harvest administration, because purchasers have incentives to minimize their costs and to remove only those logs whose value for products exceeds the price paid to the Forest Service. Some critics suggest that this, together with an alleged "timber bias" and oth…
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Date:
October 30, 1995
Creator:
Gorte, Ross W.
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