Acknowledgement

The author of this website and dataset would like to acknowledge the assistance of numerous individuals who helped to make this dataset possible.  Roger Sedjo of Resources For the Future and Ken Lyon at Utah State University both provided early inspiration, ideas, and data.  They originally developed the Timber Supply Model to assess adequacy of the global supply of timber in the face of a growing world appetite for timber resources. Robert Mendelsohn at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies has collaborated with model development and data generation and has been source of numerous ideas about modeling timber markets.

The development of this particular website and dataset would not be possible without the assistance of Tom Hertel, Director of the Global Analysis and Trade Project at Purdue University.  Dr. Hertel provided many ideas along the way to help present the data.  Francisco de la Chesnaye and Steven Rose at The US Environmental Protection Agency Climate Analysis Branch provided resources and funding for this particular endeavor. 

Colleen Tennity, a graduate student at Ohio State University and employee of the US Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service, did most of the work putting this data together in what we hope is a user friendly fashion.

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