Sponsor

FPS Economic & Financial Management Group

Session Chair and Session Moderator

Kenneth E. Skog, Supervisory Research Forester, Forest Products Lab., USDA Forest Service, Madison, WI, and Keith A. Blatner, Prof./Chair, Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA

Presentations in PDF

How Globalization Affects the U.S. South’s Forest Industry

Jacek P. Siry, Assistant Prof., Thomas Harris, Prof., and Sara Baldwin, Research Coordinator, Warnell School of Forest Resources, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

Foreign Direct Investment and the Forest Products Industry

Carol A. Hyldahl, Program Coordinator, Center for Forest Business, and Michael L. Clutter, Hargreaves Prof. of Forest Finance, Warnell School of Forest Resources, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, Bruce G. Hansen, Project Leader, NE Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Princeton, WV, and Patricia A. Layton, Dept. Chair/Head, Dept. of Forest Resources, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC

An Economic Assessment of Global Wood Fiber Supply

John M. Perez-Garcia, Assoc. Prof., Forest Economics, Center for International Trade in Forest Products, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Competitive Assessment of the Japanese Market for Softwood Lumber

Ivan L. Eastin, Prof./Assoc. Dir., Center for International Trade in Forest Products, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, and Joseph A. Roos, Research Marketing Specialist, PNW Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Sitka, AK

Unexpected Consequences of and Lessons Learned from the Canada-U.S. Lumber Trade Dispute

Henry Spelter, Economist, Forest Products Lab., USDA Forest Service, Madison, WI