Starker Lecture Series

2/21/2008 Robert Flynn, RISI and Darius Adams, Forest Resources Department, Oregon State University Global Plantations, Evolving Markets, and PNW Forests International Timberland Investments, Plantation Development, and Global Forest Products Markets The Impact of Forest Management Investment on PNW Timber Supply Planted forests are an important source of material for the PNW forest products industry, and help maintain its competitiveness in the world market. Still, intensively managed plantations in other countries grow faster and entail lower costs, so have dramatically intensified competition. Robert Flynn of RISI and Darius Adams of OSU's College of Forestry will explore the evolution of plantation forestry and its current and potential impacts on markets, especially with respect to the Pacific Northwest.