forestland

• “Most other Federal land is usually non-descript mountain forestland, rolling sagebrush hills and bluffs, or rolling grasslands, which can be utilized for various economic and recreational pursuits, such as mining, logging, agriculture, hunting and hiking/camping.”

  Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups

• “If the use of government forestland is insufficiently controlled, that’s a government failure, not a market failure.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Democracy and the Appeal of Socialism

• “Logging in national forestland where road building is restricted increases costs, cutting into the already slim profits from timber.”

  The Huffington Post: Carol Pierson Holding: Why Logging US National Forestland to Sell Timber to China Is a Really Bad Idea

• “The department this year also received an environmental certification for 145,000 acres of forestland, meaning it's logged according to strict environmental standards.”

  The Seattle Times

• “Private equity turned in a 25% return, followed by a 14% return from investments in commodities, infrastructure, forestland and inflation-linked bonds.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Calpers Reports Best Returns in 14 Years

• “And these low profits are from timber harvested on private forestland where costs are lower.”

  The Huffington Post: Carol Pierson Holding: Why Logging US National Forestland to Sell Timber to China Is a Really Bad Idea

• “But after logging declined, the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act was established to allow affected counties to opt in to a payment program that did not depend on US forestland timber sales.”

  The Huffington Post: Carol Pierson Holding: Why Logging US National Forestland to Sell Timber to China Is a Really Bad Idea

• “So even though timber prices themselves may be volatile, the price of forestland itself tends to hold its value: From 1992 to 2005 the FIM Timber index declined by more than 50%, but the Property Databank U.K. Forestry Index returned an annualized 3.7% over the same period.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Stonehage's Armist Sees Green in Timber

• “Gloria Vollmers in her article "Industrial slavery in the United States: the North Carolina turpentine industry 1849-61" states "The nature of the work, which covered thousands of acres of forestland, led to the use of a task system whereby each slave was assigned a large tract of forest that was worked with little supervision over several months.”

  John

• “But when you put them all together, you can connect the dots among the Lone Star State's water challenges: a huge population, thirsty agriculture and a massive push to feed our addiction to fossil fuels ... all in 260,000 square miles of mostly sagebrush and forestland.”

  The Huffington Post: Jim Lauria: Texas-Sized Challenges Facing Lone Star State Water

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