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Acknowledgments

We thank Brian C. Murray (Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC); and David N. Wear and Karen L. Abt (Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC) for providing valuable insights, particularly with regard to the timber inventory, harvest, management intensity, and land use projections. Additional thanks go to John M. Pye (Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC) for assistance in the development of Web-based maps of southern timber product mills by establishment; David T. Butry (Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC) for similar efforts in mapping southern mills; Carolyn Steppleton (Forest Inventory and Analysis, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, NC) for providing data on the location of southern timber product establishments; Daniel P. Stratton (Forest Inventory and Analysis, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, NC) for providing data on chip mill locations in the South; and Bruce Hansen (Northeast Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Princeton, WV) and Carol Hyldahl (The University of Georgia, Athens, GA) for sharing data and providing suggestions on wood chip production, exports, and manufacturing facilities. I also gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Tony Johnson and Anne Jenkins (Forest Inventory and Analysis, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Knoxville, TN) in the compilation of timber product output data for each State in the region. Finally, we appreciate the comments provided by five anonymous technical reviewers on an earlier draft of this chapter.