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This GreenFire study commissioned by Heartwood reveals that the U.S. Forest Service's 15-year management plan for Ohio's only national forest, the Wayne National Forest located in southeast Ohio, costs taxpayers millions - in dollars and in lost ecosystem services - and provides little if any public benefits. “The sum of extractive and destructive activities proposed in the 2006 Forest Plan will lessen the attractiveness of the forest and will negatively impact tourism. They will also diminish the capacity of the WNF to deliver ecosystem services... These ecosystem services have a much higher value to society than the timber that is taken out.” The authors give important recommendations that apply to all the national forests in our region. Click here for Economic Analyis of the Wayne National Forest Plan and Appendices
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