Table A.7. Private forest management costs ($/acre) in selected areas of the eastern and western United States 1 . Average
Minimum Maximum
Private East Southeast - Natural Pine/Hardwood/Planted Pine Northeast - Spruce/Fir and Natural Hardwoods
5.53 5.19 5.05 3.08
1.52 4.25 3.89 1.80
19.12
7.50 7.42 5.49
Northcentral - Natural Hardwoods Appalachia - Natural Hardwoods
Private West W. Washington/W. Oregon Douglas-Fir/Hemlock
21.66
9.12 2.28
70.68
E. Washington/E. Oregon Pine/Fir 13.68 1 Provided by two major forestry consulting companies in 2011 updated to 2019 dollars using CPI. Costs do not include fire management. 8.27
Private Industrial Expenditure
Table A.8. Forest Administrative Costs ($/acre) for four ownership groups in Pacific Northwest 1 Consulting Firm or Management Service $20 Private industry $28 Non-federal Public $36 Tribal $25 1 Source: FBRI, 2019
There is evidence that private industrial companies that have forest land holdings, spend, on average (Table A.7), about the same as the tribal programs (Table A.4) in the eastern regions of the United States. The analysis indicates higher average management costs for private owners in the western half of the Western US region, but slightly lower in the eastern half (Table A.7). A separate study of forest management investments by
private landowners in the Pacific Northwest (FBRI, 2019), found similar investment numbers for the western US as the first study (Table A.8). But FBRI found that tribes had lower forest administration costs than non-federal public and private industry comparators, but higher
costs than consulting firms or management services. This suggests that use of management services might be one way that smaller tribes might take advantage of management services to substitute for lack of scale. Forest Service Funding Appropriations for the National Forests increased about 6% in real terms between IFMAT III (2011) and IFMAT IV (2019) (Table A.9). The increase was largely due to higher funding for hazardous fuel reduction and the increasing importance of several other funding mechanisms: stewardship contracting, the timber salvage fund, and the timber sale pipeline. In 2019 approximately 26% of the National Forest harvest came from stewardship contracts. Funding was not included from brush disposal funds (BD) and reforestation funds (KV) collected from timber sales, the Reforestation Trust Fund derived
Wildland fire engine for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon. PHOTO CREDIT: VINCENT CORRAO
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