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Note: There are many inconsistencies with regards to the common names identified with each species. This isrelated to the lack of an updated list of wood species for the Imataca Forest Reserve and the San Pedro forest lot.The latest list of species is dated from 1969 (Rollet, 1969, FAO), despite the fact that concessionaires compile dendrologicstudies in the process of developing management plans. However, this information has not been compiledand updated. A comprehensive botanical species list of the Imataca forest is currently under way at theHerbario MER of the Faculty of Forest Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida.Table 7: Logging Fees Applied to the Guayana RegionNotes:• We calculated logging fees for 1997 and 1999 based on log production and prices at the mill gate, by woodspecies harvested in the Guayana region in 1997. Statistics for prices and production by wood species are notavailable for 1999. To account for an increase in price between 1997 and 1999, we assumed an increase of50% (R. Silva, personal communication, July 12, 2001). Between 1997 and 1999, Venezuela’s non-coniferous,industrial roundwood production decreased by 9% (FAO, “FAOSTAT, 2001.” Online at:http://www.fao.org/forestry (July 13, 2001). Since Bolívar State accounts for much of the country’snon-coniferous, industrial roundwood production, we assumed a 9% decrease in production for 1999.• Prices have been weighted to production per cubic meter for each wood species harvested (see below).Total Weighted Price and Roundwood Production, Guayana RegionYear Roundwood Production Weighted price/ m 3 Technical service fee,(m 3 ) Bs./ m 3 (1999)1997 221,818 59,172 6971999 199,294 89,899 9,292Source: MARNR, Estadísticas Forestales, Año 1997, Serie No. 5 (Caracas, Venezuela: MARNR, 1999).Logging Fees as a Proportion of Production Value in theGuayana Region and Other Tropical Countries (Figure 14)Country/ Region% production valueGuayana region (1997) 3Guayana region (post 1999) 12Gabon 15Cameroon 18Sources: J.G. Collomb et al., A First Look at Logging in Gabon (Washington,DC: WRI, 2000); J.G. Collomb et al., An Overview of Logging in Cameroon(Washington, DC: WRI, 2000).Notes:• Production value for Gabon and Cameroon is free-on-board cubic meters.• Volumes for the Guayana region are expressed in official cubic meters.• Value of production per cubic meter has been weighted to production of the most important species in theGuayana region.99