Finally, the estimate is consistent with forestry land value estimates. The EEPSEA/WWF model of forest values at average stocking rates implies a forest value of US$987 per hectare. The near equivalence of this to the agricultural values is what one would anticipate at the margin in an economic equilibrium (or for average values on large tracts of marginal lands such as many of those that were burned). If these two were grossly different, one would have expected either that all forest lands would have been cleared by now or that no clearing would be taking place at all.