Taxpayer-Subsidized Resource Extraction Harms Species

Autor:	David Wilcove, Elizabeth Losos, Carolyn Alkire, Ali Phillips, Justin Hayes
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Resource productivity Cost–benefit analysis Transfer payment business.industry Logging Environmental resource management Revenue Subsidy Business Taxpayer General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Natural resource Agricultural economics
Zdroj:	BioScience. 45:446-455
ISSN:	1525-3244 0006-3568
DOI:	10.2307/1312788
Popis:	cit has brought about closer scrutiny of a number of federally subsidized programs. Among them are subsidies for natural resource extraction-particularly hard-rock mining, logging, and livestock grazing-on federal lands and for federal water development projects. The US government's own figures reveal the magnitude of the subsidies. For example, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Forest Service (USFS), timber sale programs in most national forests lose money every year; in 1992 alone, 95 of the 120 national forests operated at a loss-totaling $174.9 million-because the agency spent more money preparing and administering timber sales than it received in revenue from those sales (USFS 1993). The losses are even higher when transfer payments to
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