The Acreage of Wetland and Riparian Areas Is Expected To Continue To 



Decline— AWhough the rate of decline in wetland area has slowed, the loss of wetland 

 area is expected to continue. 



Potentially Serious Resource Situations 



Potentially serious situations are those requiring immediate attention because they 

 clearly present serious potential problems or because there is no known management 

 strategy or technology for dealing with them. 



The Volume of Softwood Sawtimber Supply Is a Concern, Especially Over the 

 Next 20 Vears— Timber supplies are affected by reduced harvests on public lands, 

 increased mortality, a proliferation of State and local regulations, and inadequate 

 supplies on private lands. Increased recycling of paper and paperboard and improved 

 processing technologies dampen, but do not prevent increases in demand for round- 

 wood. The next two decades will be a period of rapidly increasing prices for stumpage 

 (fig. 6). This may lead to increased use of nonwood substitutes such as stone and 

 metal that have environmental consequences that differ from those associated with 

 the use of wood. These higher prices may also affect world trade patterns in timber 



Figure 6— Softwood stumpage prices in the South and western Washington and western Oregon. 



Dollars per thousand board feet 

 114 



1990 



2000 



I I South 



I I Western WA or OR 



225 



234 

 248 



2010 



265 



283 



2020 



285 



302 



2030 



2040 



272 



298 



324 



291 



Prices are measured in constant (1982) dollars 



