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Notes:
The same kind of relationship that exists between distance and forest management intensity exists between site quality and forest management intensity. This figure shows how land quality affects the site-rent surfaces of competing land uses—forestry and agriculture--and therefore the probability that active forest management is practiced. Here, agriculture is described as the optimal use (the highest rent) for high quality land. Managed forests are found then in the middle quality land, and forestry is simply not profitable in the lowest quality land. This lowest quality land may contain unmanaged (and old) forests. We would expect, therefore, that younger stands are found on higher quality sites. This may be doubly true for tree plantations, which are often managed on shorter rotations.
