errata

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• Subject: errata
• From: Scott=Roberts%Faculty%fnr@forest1.fnr.purdue.edu
• Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 19:25:23 +0200
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Forest netters,

I must apologize for spreading misinformation.  I earlier reported incorrect 
harvest levels for the U.S. Forest Service, and I want to thank Richard Teck 
for bringing this to my attention.  The correct numbers should have been:

1987 harvest = 12.7 billion board feet
1993 harvest =  5.9  bbf

This is still a significant drop, but again shows that the Forest Service 
continues to supply a modest to moderate  level of forest products.  The 
numbers that I gave in the first message more closely resemble the harvest 
figures in those years from the Pacific Northwest.  They also show that even 
in the PNW, a modest amount of wood continues to be harvested.  While 
certainly the priorities of the Forest Service have changed in recent years 
due to public pressures, I don't think it's accurate to say that national 
forest management has become "national park" management.

Scott Roberts
Purdue University

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