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- From: cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.185950.24485@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 18:59:50 GMT
- Organization: WINCO
- Subject: Re: Spotted Owl/Re:The Environment
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- References: <kf4CMf_00UhBE1OPhI@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov23.145454.8082@lclark.edu> <nate.847@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>
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- In article <nate.847@psygate.psych.indiana.edu> nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
- >snodgras@lclark.edu (Bil Snodgrass) writes:
- >>Also, timber is a very beautiful resorce. What the hell are we doing
- >>sending it out to other countries? I would like to keep it all here
- >>in the states. We don't have enough to share....We have a large
- >>enough market to sale it here only.
- >
- > That would be nice, but it wouldn't do anything to help our trade
- >balance, especially since timber is one of the few things that Japan is
- >still actively interested in buying from North America.
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- For the record, Federal law prohibits the export of logs from public land.
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- What would be nice is if the public got their money's worth from the
- sale of this resource. High quality Doug-fir logs go for $50 bd/ft,
- while the treasury gets on the order of $5 bd/ft from the sale of it.
- There are other games played which actually worsen this figure, such
- as the practice of writing down the value of logs based on "damage"
- estimates for rot and checks, which can lower by 50% the amount of
- return on the logs to the public.
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- ...Dale Cook "I don't much care how a man prays -- there's plenty of
- room in hell for all of us." --- "Mad Jack" Duncan
- The opinions are mine only (i.e., they are NOT my employer's)
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