Policymakers sometimes consider relaxing access to national forests for logging purposes. Relative to harvest decisions made for trees on private land as discussed in this chapter, how would you expect decisions and the associated graph (Figure 13.8) to differ when the harvests occur on government-owned, open-access property?

Figure 13.8

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Dollars Optimal Rotation Period Time Marginal Cost of Waiting Marginal Benefit of Waiting