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In article <01bc9e17$3a4a1020$ad0320ce@mckenney> "McKenney" <d_mckenney@conknet.com> writes:
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|In many states timber is considered real estate and real estate is taxed.
|Remember unlike most crops which require cultivation to reach maturity and
|marketability,  timber does not. Clearly, managed timber grows faster and
|may be worth more than unmanaged timber but left to itself timber grows
|quite well without the help of man. I think that might be part of the logic
|in taxing timber differently than other 'cash' crops.

Actually, "managed" second growth timber generally has lesser value than
the ancient forest it replaces, especially when the replacement is one of
these fast growing, tailored species, whose coarse grains (which result
from the increased growth rate) are less highly prised than the fine grained
species they replace.
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