Abstract
The establishment of forest reserves for the benefit of other resources and other land uses in areas where timber harvesting is taking place constitutes a significant withdrawal of wood fiber annually in Ontario.
This article reports on a case study carried out on a representative forest area in northern Ontario where the primary land use is timber extraction. The results projected to the whole province show that the direct cost to the provincial economy of removing these forest lands from timber production is of the order of $2.5 million annually.
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Puttock, G.D. Evaluation of the impact of forest reserves on harvesting costs and provincial revenues in ontario. Environmental Management 9, 83–88 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01871447
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01871447