Raphael, Alex, and Clancy are lumberjacks who live next to a forest that is open to logging; in other words, anyone is free to use the forest for logging. Assume that these men are the only three lumberjacks who log in this forest and that the forest is large enough for all three lumberjacks to log intensively at the same time.

Each year, the lumberjacks choose independently how many acres of trees to cut down; specifically, they choose whether to log intensively (that is, to clear-cut a section of the forest, which hurts the sustainability of the forest if enough people do it) or to log nonintensively (which does not hurt the sustainability of the forest). None of them has the ability to control how much the others log, and each lumberjack cares only about his own profitability and not about the state of the forest.

Assume that as long as no more than one lumberjack logs intensively, there are enough trees to regrow the forest. However, if two or more log intensively, the forest will become useless in the future. Of course, logging intensively earns a lumberjack more money and greater profit because he can sell more trees

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The solutions which would ensure that the forest is sustainable in the long run assuming that the regulation is enforceable are:

  • Convert the forest to private property, and allow the owner to sell logging rights.
  • Outlaw logging intensively.

What is LumberJacking?

This refers to the cutting down of trees for the purpose of making woods.

With this in mind, we are aware that because lumberjacking is not regulated, then anyone can use the forest for logging and because of this, independent lumberjacks come to the forest to cut down trees and in the process hurts the sustainability of the forest.

Hence, we can see that the way to ensure that the forest is sustainable in the long run assuming that the regulation is enforceable is to outlaw logging intensively and also to convert the forest to private property, and allow the owner to sell logging rights.

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