Midwest Logging Firm Perspectives: Harvesting on Increasingly Parcelized Forestlands

Table 4

Relationship between profitability of timber sales of varying sizes by source of timber supply (public forests).

	Timber sales 1–20 acres		Timber sale  21–80 acres		Timber sales  81+ acres
	𝑛	profitability  ratio^a	𝑛	profitability  ratio^a	𝑛	profitability ratio^a
Firms with 0–24% of timber supply from public forests	166	0.85	257	0.88	149	0.86
Firms with 25–49% of timber supply from public forests	33	0.70	53	0.83	37	0.81
Firms with 50–74% of timber supply from public forests	22	0.68	52	0.75	27	0.74
Firms with 75–100% of timber supply from public forests	17	0.58	34	0.75	34	0.88
	𝐹=5.969		F = 4.757		𝐹=1.424
	df = 3		df = 3		df = 3
	𝑃=.001		P =  .003		𝑃=.236
	𝑛=238		𝑛=396		𝑛=247

^aRatio consisting of the number of total sales in the acreage category divided by the number of profitable sales in the acreage category (range is from 0 to 1).