Authors: ​John Perez-Garcia, Holly Lippke Fretwell, Bruce Lippke and Xiaoming Yu Executive SummaryA ban on the export of privately-grown logs has been proposed by s6me domestic log purchasers, environmental groups and congressional representatives td relieve the timber shortage caused by court injunctions and state and private land regulations in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). The assumptions behind […]

Authors: ​Donald F. Flora and Wendy J. McGinnis ​AbstractCongress is considering two legislative changes affecting softwood log exports from the West.  One would drop the ban on exports from Federal lands.  The other would permit States to embargo exports of logs from State-owned lands.Lifting the ban on federal log exports would increase exports about ten percent, […]