The costs for future road maintenance and 

 possible future road-related costs would 

 increase if these easements were granted. 

 Private actions on their land would increase 

 the wear and tear on the road. Without the 

 requirement for future road-related mainte- 

 nance and road upgrading costs to be shared 

 by all road users, the net return to the trust 

 would be reduced. The trust could end up 

 subsidizing development on these private 

 lands. 



Estimates for easements for any of the 

 cabinsites that DNRC is considering to sell 

 were not included because it would be in- 

 cluded as part of the sale agreements. If the 

 easements were not included in the sale 

 agreements, the value for the land would 

 probably be discounted more than we would 

 receive for the value of easements. 





THE DIRECT EFFECT OF 

 CABINSITE LEASES ON 

 THE ASSET VALUE 

 RELATING TO TIMBER 

 MANAGEMENT 



The direct effect of cabinsite or homesite 

 leasing is deferring the leased acres from the 

 net acres in the sustainable timber-manage- 

 ment base. The cabinsite leases do not include 

 the rights to the timber resource that is within 

 their boundaries. The impact of deferring 

 land for the creation of a lease would be 

 estimated by using the average information 

 from the Montana State Lands Sustained Yield 

 Study 1996 for the Northwestern Land Office 

 and the estimated number of acres affected. 

 The net affected acres are the estimated total 

 lease acres minus the number of acres in the 

 SMZ or other deferred acres in the lease. The 

 SMZ and other deferred land were subtracted 

 from the net land base for the sustained-yield 

 calculation; thus, we are assuming very- 

 limited to no-future harvest options from these 

 areas. Deferring the timber and land from the 

 net acres of the timber base and the sustained- 



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