ABSTRACT
Marketing of forest-based products is a multifaceted activity of special importance to the forestry community and the nation. Forests are one of the nation’s most valuable natural resources. They are extensive, renewable, and produce high-quality, high-valued products that are increasingly demanded both at home and abroad. Analyses of forest products markets, both domestic and foreign, are key ingredients to increasing the efficiency and competitiveness of the US forest products. Marketing and trade of forest products entail a number of critical activities important to efficient product distribution, important is the free flow of market information, a well-organized market structure, an efficiency-producing competitive arrangement, and a spatial condition that encourages efficiency of production and resource use. Forests are important sources of a variety of non-wood forest products. Forest resources are frequently an important contributor to the recreational camping experiences of a significant segment of the nation’s public.
