UNIVERSITY
Study shows timber industry employs 110,000
By Cathy Peterson
Emerald Reporter
There are almost 30.000 more
jobs in the Oregon timber in
dustry than originally estimat
ed. according to a study by two
University business administra
tion professors.
As many as 110.000 people
are employed in the timber in
dustry. professors Gerald S.
Albaum and Mark Spriggs said
Monday. Previous figures, such
as those given by the Oregon
Division of Employment have
been no more than 70,000.
"The purpose of our study
was to attempt to assess just
what is the 'true' employment
situation for the wood products
industry in Oregon." Spriggs
said.
"If that situation has been
underestimated — and our
study indicates it has — then
the wood products industry's
impact on Oregon's economy is
much greater than is accounted
for in the policy discussion
now occurring at the state and
federal levels." he said
Funded by the Weyerhauser
Foundation and published by
the University Forest Industries
Management Center, the study,
titled "Estimation of Economic
Multipliers for the Oregon
Wood Products Industry,"
counts people employed in
manufacturing, selling and
transporting wood products, as
well as other secondary wood
products industries Other
studies have counted only peo
ple directly involved in timber
production as defined by the
U S. Chamber of Commerce
The professors surveyed Ore
gon wood products industries
and wood products truckers to
determine the number of peo
ple employed, total sales rev
enue and totai expenditures.
Albaum said their work dif
fered from previous studies be
cause they used additional job
categories to those describing
lumber and wood products
workors. such as truck drivers
who transport timber.
"This information doesn’t
draw conclusions.” Spriggs
said. He called the study de
scriptive. and said it would
help other researchers to deter
mine timber employment fig
ures.
Albaum and Spriggs said
they were not taking a side on
the debate over harvest limits
and lost jobs, but that their re
search might be used to show
how many people would be af
fected by changes in the indus
try.
"Many wood products indus
try proponents contend that the
industry’s overall role in the
economy of Oregon is under
stated.” Spriggs said.
Both professors said it made
no difference that Weyerhauser
had funded their research.
"We told them we would do
the research and give them the
results." Spriggs said. "They
bought our expertise."
The study, which the re
searchers said took about six
months to complete, could be
helpful both to people who
want to decrease timber cuts
and to those who want to save
timber jobs, they said
Rebekah Ledwith of Southern
Willamette Barth First said the
‘trickle down effect', with one
job loss leading to another,
made sense to her.
Wendell Wood of the Oregon
Natural Resources Council said
the timber industry would be
the main beneficiary from a
study such as the one done by
Albaum and Spriggs
"What is implied but not
said is that if |obs are lost, all
these people will be affected,”
Wood said.
Mark Spriggs
Gerald S. Albaum
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