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Family-forest Owners' Willingness to Harvest Sawlogs and Woody Biomass: The Effect of Price on Social Availability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Francisco X. Aguilar ,
Marissa “Jo” Daniel  and
Zhen Cai
Francisco X. Aguilar*
Affiliation:
Department of Forestry, School of Natural Resources at University of Missouri
Marissa “Jo” Daniel
Affiliation:
U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service
Zhen Cai
Affiliation:
Department of Forestry, School of Natural Resources at University of Missouri
*
Correspondence: Department of Forestry, School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, Phone 573.882.6304, Email aguilarf@missouri.edu.
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Abstract

Understanding willingness to harvest (WTH) is essential to assessing the social availability of woody biomass from private land. Currently, the only economically feasible way to harvest woody biomass is in conjunction with sawlogs. We examined WTH sawlogs and woody biomass from owners of family forests using data from a survey of Missouri forest owners. While their WTH increased with revenue expected from woody biomass, revenue expected from sawlogs was a stronger influence. Incentive payments for woody biomass thus are unlikely to increase its supply, and the social availability of woody biomass will remain limited unless sawlog prices rise significantly.

Keywords

integrated harvestordered choicepublic incentivesawlogwoody biomass
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Research Article
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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , August 2014 , pp. 279 - 299
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Copyright © 2014 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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