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Forest Policy Center Post Doc Fellow, Indrajit Majumdar, and Larry Teeter will combine US Forest Service FIA data on timber resources with data from the National Woodland Owner Survey (NWOS) to explore the factors that influence timberland owners to produce timber and non-timber outputs (eg., recreation, wildlife habitat, non-timber forest products). Timber supply forecasters often assume that people owning pine plantations are planning to offer timber for sale at some point in the future. But that may not always be the case, and determining what owners will do with forest that is not pine or is not intensively managed is even more difficult. Collaboration with Brett Butler, coordinator for the NWOS in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, will provide information on landowner intentions. The projects hypothesis is that we can learn a lot about what people will do with their timberland if we understand the context of their decision environment. If we know what kind of forest they own and where it is located in relation to markets and urban pressures (based on FIA data) we can do a better job of understanding their responses to questions about their intentions in the NWOS. In the South, where urbanization pressures are affecting land use decisions throughout the region, knowledge of forestland owners intentions will have significant implications for projections of future supplies of timber and non-timber forest products. 