Excerpt from Timber Supply and Demand, 1999: Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act Section 706(a), Report to Congress, Usda Forest Service, Alaska Region The situation is a bit different for the timber remaining under the kpc Iong-term contract. 4 Under a February 1997 settlement agreement, kpc was allowed to complete the harvest of an estimated 320 mmbf of timber previously released to the company. As part of the agreement, kpc paid the federal government approximately million in stumpage (roughly The federal government agreed to reimburse kpc for the costs of building the roads to access this timber. In this case, the net cost to kpc of harvesting the remaining volume under contract can be approximated by the average logging cost plus the stumpage payment collected as part of the settlement agreement. For the offerings remaining, this equates to $2291mbf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.