The government will return the wood valued at $155,000 that it seized in 2011.
For its part, Gibson will pay a $300,000 fine, make a $50,000 contribution to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and forfeit wood valued at $261,000 seized in the 2009 government raid on its Nashville facilities.
It produces a fine-textured, lemon-yellow, straight-grained wood valued for the high polish it will accept; stained black, it has been used as a substitute for true ebony.
However, maximum growth does not equate to maximum wood value.
Stakeholders support energy use of wood, " but always at the end of the wood value chain.
This had the effect of changing the asymptotic mature wood value of MFA without altering the initial value near the pith.
Prediction of stand structure, and how it varies with climate, disturbance and silviculture, can assist the design of adaptation options to climate change, aid silviculture response to storm damage or pest attack, and help stand managers meet product delivery schedules and maximize wood value.
This may limit or bias market accessibility towards products (tree species, sizes, qualities) derived from industrial forest lands through conventional management, effectively reducing the value of a variety of products that could come from forests managed under alternative regimes (for example, see the above discussion about the impact of log sizes on wood value).
The cut wood, valued at tens of millions of dollars, has been slowly rotting away since 2006, when President Hamid Karzai banned logging and lumber sales in Afghanistan.
