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The emerald ash borer (EAB) Agrilus planipennis (Fairmaire, Coleoptera: Buprestidae) will have untold impacts on the contributions hardwood timber products provide Louisiana’s economy. We modeled a scenario where ash mortality was assumed to follow a PERT-Beta distribution to kill essentially all Louisiana ash within 25 yr. Future ash mortality volumes were discounted to the present and valued using market prices to estimate a present effect on timber receipts. Assuming the dead timber would have otherwise been typical trees of average quality, stumpage was presently valued at US$1.57 million, with deliveries totaling US$3.48 million. A salvage arrangement using the double declining balance method coupled with a second PERT-Beta distribution centered upon Louisiana’s current 2.84% harvest-to-inventory proportion depreciated the timber’s value monthly over 1 yr. Following salvage, average stumpage revenue declined −US$1.54 million, mill deliveries fell −US$3.41 million, whereas state timber severance tax collections declined by −US$46,800. The value added and employment direct effects to Louisiana’s economy averaged −US$882,400 and −41.6 jobs, respectively. The multiplier effects of these losses emanating from the timber industry resulted in additional declines averaging −US$2.56 million in value added and −45.6 jobs across the state economy on the drop in output of −US$4.51 million. The total economic effects summed to −US$3.44 million in value added and −87.1 jobs on output declines of −US$9.46 million.

Potential Changes to Louisiana Hardwood Timber Industry Economic Contributions Following Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Invasion: An Input–Output Approach