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<br />~ <br /> <br />Management Situation by Revision Topic <br /> <br />Products <br /> <br />3J <br /> <br />.~, <br /> <br />Volumes of live timber sold annually <br />during the 10 yearsfrom 1985 to 1995 <br />have ranged between 11.8 million <br />board feet (MMBF) and 40.3 MMBF. <br />The average annual volume is 28.5 <br />MMBF. pead timber volume has <br />averaged 1 MMBF per year. In addition, <br />a few hundred thousand feet of aspen <br />sawtimber have been harvested each <br />year by c1earcutting. For the past 45 <br />years, the volume sold averaged 19.7 <br />MMBF per year. Figure 11I-10 displays <br />the historic harvest levels for the RGNF. <br /> <br />Post and poles, fuelwood, transplants, <br />and Christmas trees are also sold and <br />removed from the RGNF each year. <br />Forest-wide an average of 105 <br />thousand board feet (MBF) of post and <br />poles, 4 MMBF of fuelwood, and 4,000 <br />Christmas trees are sold and removed <br />annually. (Rideout and Stone, 1992) <br /> <br />Current management has complied <br />with the 1985 Forest Plan. In 1989, U.S. <br />District Court Judge Sherman Finesilver <br />mandated the ASQ be reduced to 25 <br />MMBFper year. <br /> <br />Timber Volume Offer Target <br />and Amount Actually Sold <br />Rio Grande National Forest <br /> <br />MMBF <br /> <br />40 <br /> <br />I-+-Torgot DSoId] <br /> <br />30 <br /> <br /> <br />20 <br /> <br />10 <br /> <br />o <br />" ,; " " ,; " " ,; " " " ,; , " ,; <br /> <br />Fisal Ye.r <br />Figure III-g. Timber Volume Offer Target and Amount Sold <br /> <br />Historic Harvest Levels <br /> <br />Rio Grande National Forest <br /> <br />35 MMBF <br /> <br />30 <br />25 _.-.- <br />20 <br /> <br /> <br />S <br /> <br />o <br />1948 1953 HiSS 196] 1968 1973 '978 1983 1988 199] <br /> <br />Fiscal Year <br /> <br />Figure 11I-10. Historic Harvest levels <br /> <br />D. Demand Trend6 and Timl:1er-Proce66ing Facilitie6 <br /> <br />In December 1992, Douglas B. Rideout, Ph.D., Professor of Forest Economics at Colorado State <br />University, published an Administrative Studv of the Timber SUDDlv and Demand Situation of the Rio <br />Grande National Forest and Its Timbershed(see Appendix D). This report addressed the sawtimber <br />economy ofthe RGNF and its timbershed from fiscal years 1982-1991. It also assessed the sawtimber <br />supply, demand and economy, and the likely future under various RGNF supply levels that may result <br />from the Forest Plan Revision. The following information comes from this report. <br /> <br />5awtimbt'Jr-Dt'Jmand U:vt'J1 <br />Rideout's report estimated the demand for timber from the RGNF and its timbershed to average <br />approximately 50 MMBF per year. This demand was derived from many processors, but only six <br />processors account for 85 percent of the annual demand. <br /> <br />111-35 <br /> <br />C',2448 <br />