The Bottom Line Revenues: Logging, $354 million Revenues: Living Forests, over $117 billion National forests supply more than $530.4 million acre-feet of clean water each year. Economists estimate the value of this water for consumptive purposes alone at $3.7 billion per year. National forests sequester 53 million metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year, a function worth nearly $3.4 billion per year. Recreation, hunting and fishing on our national forests contribute at least $111 billion to the gross domestic product and generate 2.9 million jobs each year. National forests provide habitat for wild pollinators, which contribute an estimated $4.7 billion per year to the agricultural economy. According to Forest Service estimates, the net economic benefits of logging were $354 million in 1997. This overstated figure ignores the costs created by logging on federal lands. Source: The Economic Case Against National Logging, by John Talberth and Karyn Moskowitz. Prepared for The National Forest Protection Alliance, December 1999.