Financial Management: Annual Costs of Forest Service's Timber Sales Program Are Not Determinable

Abstract

Over the past several years, the Forest Service has reported the annual costs of its timber sales program in its Forest Management Program Report. Much of the information contained in this report is obtained from the Timber Sales Program Information Reporting System (TSPIRS); hence this report is commonly referred to as the TSPIRS report. For fiscal year 1997, the Forest Service reported the timber sales program lost $88.6 million. Concerned that this amount did not reflect the total federal costs associated with the timber sales program, and absent any information about the costs of the program for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, you asked us in March 2000 to attempt to determine the total net federal costs associated with the Forest Service's timber sales program for these fiscal years.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 21, 2001
Accession Number
ADA395687

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