Structural changes in the timber economy of southeast Alaska
Abstract
Recent structural changes in southeast Alaskan markets for logs, lumber and pulp are identified and analyzed using the familiar analytics of production theory, supply and demand. Structural changes in the southeast Alaskan markets are identified as responses to either legislative enactments or to changing world market conditions. Recent legislative enactments, especially the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Alaskan National Interest Land Conservation Act, have altered the land base from which the commercial timber source is drawn, specified an average annual harvest level, and established important native rights to timber lands. The economic implications of this new legislative setting, coupled with downturns in world markets, projections of slower construction activity in Japan, and a major new pulp producer indicate that the timber economy of southeast Alaska may have entered a new era with the advent of the 1980's.
Reference
Doug Rideout. (1984). Structural changes in the timber economy of southeast Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. https://doi.org/10.1139/x84-093
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