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Costs and benefits of not logging in
the national estate areas of the south-east
forests
Benefits
- Capital and labour cost savings
- forest management
- log harvesting
- log transport
- sawmilling
- chip mill
- Avoidance of damage to natural environment
- Maintenance of recreation and tourism opportunities
in the National Estate
- Reduced activity by logging trucks
- avoidance of road pavement damage
- reduction in air and noise pollution
- Maintenance of forest suitable for non-timber
commercial uses (eg bee-keeping)
Costs
- Value of forgone sawlogs and pulp logs
- Economic cost of unemployment
- Social cost of unemployment
- Loss of opportunities for some recreation and tourism
in the National Estate
Source: Streeting, Mark & Hamilton, Clive 1991, An
Economic Analysis of the Forests of South-Eastern
Australia, Resource Assessment Commission, Research
Paper no. 5, p. 61.
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