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Management costs for the loblolly pine timber type were taken from the “Forest Farmer 30^th Manual Edition” (DuBois and others 1995) and adjusted to reflect a small ownership. Pine sawtimber and pulpwood stumpage prices were 1995 regional average prices for the Southern United States as reported in “Timber Mart-South” (Norris 1995). The management plan was developed using the COMPUTE_MERCHLOB growth-and-yield model (Busby and others 1990). The costs, returns, and management plan for the bottomland hardwood timber type were adapted from Amacher and others’ (1997) findings for Nuttall oak. The costs, returns, and management plan for the central Appalachian hardwood timber type were provided by G.W. Miller (Personal Communication, 1997. G.W. Miller, USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, 11 Campus Blvd., Newtown Square, PA 19073).