Processing of timber shipped outside the Sunshine Coast Timber Supply Area is estimated to generate 2,338 person-years of employment outside the area. This includes 698 person-years of direct forestry employment and 1,640 of spin-off employment.
Provincially, the total employment supported by harvesting and processing timber from the Sunshine Coast Timber Supply Area both within and outside the timber supply area is 3,302 person-years.
Timber harvesting in the Sunshine Coast Timber Supply Area is estimated to generate approximately $34.5 million per year in stumpage, taxes and other government revenues (SEA page 68). This estimate includes increased stumpage revenues being generated to fund the Forest Renewal Plan.
