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1 Key Findings

· The forest products industry is concentrated in areas where economic opportunities are relatively limited.

· The forest products industry provides good paying jobs relative to other economic sectors in areas where the forest products industry is located.

· Indicators of social conditions are generally associated with factors having a positive influence on quality of life in areas of concentrated employment in the forest products industry.

· Concentrated employment in the pulp and paper sector and the primary wood products sector is associated with various indicators of an increasingly "industrialized" forest.

· Concentrated employment in the forest related recreation and tourism sector is associated with various indicators of more "natural" forest conditions.

· Concentrated employment in the forest related recreation and tourism sector is associated with better economic conditions in rural areas of the South, relatively higher levels of economic development and more rapid population growth.