Land Use Change from Biofuels Derived from Forest Residue: A Case of Washington State

Figure 3

Land use change from policy simulations. Note: simulations are run on land use models conditional on land use in 2007 and correspond to columns (2)–(5) in Table 2. One thousand bootstrap simulations are performed to generate out of sample predictions. The average percentage change in each land use is shown with numerical bootstrap standard errors used to create confidence intervals.

(a) Simulating increased forest returns

(b) Simulating adding a feedstock processing facility