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Forestry Advance Access originally published online on April 24, 2008
Forestry 2008 81(2):227-242; doi:10.1093/forestry/cpn017
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Working together: a reciprocal wood flow arrangement to mitigate the economic impacts of natural disturbance

Mike N. Patriquin1,*, Van A. Lantz2, Richard C. Stedman3 and William A. White4

1 Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320-122 Street Edmonton, Alberta T6H 3S5, Canada
2 Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B 6C2, Canada
3 Department of Natural Resources, 122 D Fernow Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
4 Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320-122 Street Edmonton, Alberta T6H 3S5, Canada

* Corresponding author. E-mail: mpatriqu{at}nrcan.gc.ca


  Abstract

This study investigates the regional economic impacts resulting from the current mountain pine beetle infestation in British Columbia, Canada, and proposes a mitigation strategy to reduce the negative impacts. The strategy consists of reducing the abrupt timber supply changes in an infested region through a reciprocal wood flow arrangement with an adjacent region less affected by the beetle. Two study areas facing different levels of beetle pressure are investigated: the Quesnel Timber Supply Area (high beetle pressure) and the combined Williams Lake/100 Mile House Timber Supply Area (low beetle pressure). A computable general equilibrium model is constructed for each region and is used to simulate the sensitivity of a suite of economic indicators to various timber supply scenarios for both regions. The results indicate that the negative economic impacts attributed to beetle damage could be reduced under a reciprocal wood flow agreement between the two regions. The degree to which the impacts are reduced in each region depends largely on assumptions about forest regeneration and growth and the terms of the reciprocal wood flow agreement.

Received 20 September 2007.
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