William F. Hyde, in Policythe Forests Analysis (Summer 1979), University of
California Press, Berkeley, Calif. 94720.
Inefficient forest management has spurred government predictions of a "timber famine" the year 2000 in the Pacific Northwest, source of one-fourth of the annual U.S. timber harvest.
No such famine need occur, argues Hyde, a research associate at Resources for the Future. Annual harvests in the Northwest range from 24 million to 26 million "cunits" (one cunit...