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     1        given advantage to broadleaf planting and that has been
     2        taken up on a very substantial scale.
     3
     4   Q.   In your chart on page 2 of your statement, you have
     5        "Productive Forest" as a heading.  Can you explain what
     6        you mean specifically by "Productive Forest" as opposed to
     7        "Total Forest"?
     8        A.  It is forest that has been designated within those
     9        countries as being available for harvesting and
    10        regeneration.
    11
    12   Q.   The forest that has been used as or designated as
    13        productive forest, has the forest industry taken part in
    14        the identification of those forests, or has it just
    15        happened, you know, as time has gone on, just by chance?
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What do you mean "the identification"?
    18
    19   MR. MORRIS:  Basically, have those forests that have been
    20        identified as productive, most productive, productive
    21        forests, ones that have been commercially the most
    22        efficient?
    23        A.  Well, I think, obviously, each country and each region
    24        defines its own forest in those forms.  Every nation has
    25        governmental departments whose task is dedicated to
    26        ensuring that forests are managed under the current law.
    27        I think, therefore, each of those figures given as
    28        productive forest is a national statement by their forest
    29        service of those individual countries.
    30
    31   Q.   I mean, in the choosing of what forest becomes a productive
    32        forest, as opposed to whatever else a forest is if it is
    33        not identified as productive, then commercial
    34        considerations -- what I mean is, are the sites that are
    35        identified as "productive forest" generally the sites of
    36        forest that are most commercially viable?
    37        A.  Generally.
    38
    39   Q.   "This bit of forest here would be easy to extract; it has a
    40        large number of well-built trees of the type we want,
    41        therefore, that can be identified as productive forest"?
    42        A.  If you go the other way around, it might be easier to
    43        define, and that is you see there is a heading "Total
    44        forest area" and "Million hectares", and then "Productive
    45        Forest" area, well, the difference between the two is
    46        largely made up of forest areas that have been designated
    47        to be non-productive and not available non-available for
    48        harvesting; those would be all the forest parks and all the
    49        forest reserves, biological or any other form of reserve,
    50        and wilderness forest which has been left not to be used 
    51        economically, as you would describe it. 
    52 
    53        Thereafter, there are forests which are not available
    54        because they are simply not in the public domain and are
    55        held privately and not being used in any fashion of an
    56        economical nature.  So, what you come down to is forests
    57        which are quite specifically either owned by the State or
    58        owned by companies or owned by individuals who consider
    59        them to be productive.
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