Table A.9. National Forest Management Appropriation Budget for 2019 compared to 2011. Land base is National Forest acres less Wilderness. All are in 2019 dollars. National Forest System Surface Land Management FS 2011 ($1000) $/Acre FS 2019 ($1000) $/Acre Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 17,006 0.11 40,000 0.25 Land Management Planning (LMP) 51,157 0.32 180,000 1.14 Inventory and Monitoring 189,961 1.20 combined in LMP Wildlife & Fisheries Habitat Management 159,335 1.01 137,000 0.87 Grazing Management 56,502 0.36 57,000 0.36 Forest Products 381,752 2.42 368,000 2.33 Vegetation & Watershed Management 209,411 1.33 180,000 1.14 Landownership Management 104,245 0.66 75,000 0.48 Roads (All roads) 272,759 1.73 237,585 1.51 Facilities (1/2 of all facilities) 76,680 0.49 84,073 0.53 Hazardous Fuel Reduction 259,399 1.64 435,000 2.76 Subtotal 1,778,208 11.27 1,793,658 11.37
Stewardship Contracting (Funding of deficit Stewardship Projects)
10,824
0.07
37,182
0.24
26,185
0.17
38,676
0.25
Timber Salvage Sales (Funding for sale prep from salvage sale revenues)
Timber Sale Pipeline (Accelerate High Benefit/Cost sales) Green Timber Stewardship Restoration Spending (Green timber receipts allocated to restoration in stewardship projects, GNAs)
-
-
3,044
0.02
-
-
58,000
0.37
Total
11.51
12.24
Law Enforcement
104,245
0.66
131,000
0.83
Fire Preparedness
665,303
4.22
1,339,620
8.49
from tariffs on imported forest products, or fuel-tax funds from the Federal Lands Transportation Program. For consistency with previous IFMAT reports, a net land base of National Forest acres less Wilderness was used in Table A.9 (157 million acres). The 2019 GAO report on Federal Timber Harvesting classifies only 96 million acres as forest land
as capable of producing timber crops and NOT withdrawn by statute or law. The largest part of the withdrawal (58 million acres) is designated as Roadless Areas outside of Wilderness (34 million acres). In some following tables, National Forest acres minus Wilderness acres minus Roadless acres is used when comparing budgets to commercial
timberland and commercial woodland acres in tribal forests. Notice that between IFMAT III and IFMAT IV the fire preparedness budget for the National Forest Systems land went up 101% in real terms. During the same period, fire preparedness budgets for tribal lands increased only 15% (Table A.3).
“The most important thing about the forest is the forest.” —IFMAT IV focus group participant
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