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Assessing cts of Mitigation Strategies for Global ate Change with an Intertemporal Model of the b U.S. Forest and AMeulture Sectors RALPH ALIC~, J.M. WAY^ and STEVEN 1 USDA Fumr Sm*ctt OR 97331 US& 'Orrgon State (Iee-, Cow&t OR 97331; unive. COI~~~C 'T-AM S- l~ m 3 LISA: 4~~ C- 'u.s. Eh~~tentnl PmteCtiOn Agauy, Wdgtbn, DC 20dW. LIU RQSU, D C ~ C Acccpt#f 8 October 1996 A b s A mdef of product and land markets in US. forest ard agriculturaf s~ors is used to examine the private fonst carbon saqucs~on pdiciw impitmw~uxt use W gc- Iicy targets need not he-pamancnt; changes in a smooth or quhr fashion over time may not be optimal; and ~ ~ I Efomu Y of a d m t m mcet carbon policy targets invoivc shifting of laad fhm qpicdm ro fcnest rmd mor~ V forest C managanent in combiuatiorts varying with the policy targa. Key work afro~~~eatioil, dimao change, land* change t Increasing forest area and enhancingproducmty of existing forests are two options being cmidered by U.S. policy makers to &tigatt global climate change through sequestration of carbon (C) in foxes03 and forest pmducs. Forests are an attmctive vehicle for policy action, in piat because the stocks &emelves have values beyond that of the C sequestered andbecause ppms for =panding stocks have bem used for a vdety of other objectives over many decades in the U.S. Thus, incremenits of Cscquesbration may be in -@ctim with other objectives of forest policy. Since fmts sequester C from the armowhen as part of the growthprocess,anyk=einforest biomassco~tesasinkthatwiu*~~~ build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Howevm- genic activities involving.forests, such as land use change and timber harves~t, can aiter the amount and ternpod distribution of C storage, In past anaiyses of C sequestration in fomts, land market interntiom, timber harvtrst, and forest invatntent have received far less attention than the biophysical. refatioaps betwan forest biomass and C l"b US. Govm's right to main a mndusive, royalty frcc licence in and to any copyright is acknowltdgcd

260 RALPH ALIG ET AL sequestered. The potential impacts on C smge and fluxes of adjustments in agricultural and timber markets have on1 addressed in limited ways (Adams et al. 1993; Haynes et al. 1994). Oppo to sequester more C in U.S. forests include both increasing net bedad (Alig et al. 1992) and the convenion of suitable a@ Moulton and Richards 1990). In the laner case, pro restation. of these agricul~l lands could stimulate adjustments in borb product and land harkets that would partially offset land use shifts to forestry. Shifting agricui&l lands to forestry should cause agricultural land rents to rise and forest land rents to fall, favoring a reverse flow from forestry to agridture of lands not &e direct object of the programs. The effects would be hikherprogram costs and lower net increments in C sequestered relative to those suggested instatic or single sector studies. We apply a linked model of the U.S. forest and agriculture sectors, with endogenous land use and forest management investment decisions, to examine the consequences of htersectolal market forces on forest C storage, C fiuxes, and costs. We investigate: 1) whether the effects of forest C sequestration programs differ significantly from those suggested &I previous studies using static or single-sector approaches; and 2) the costs and the mixtwre of land base adjustments obtained when meeting a specific C sequestration target so as to minimize net social welfare costs in the intersectoral model. We briefly review previous studies that have estimated costs of terrestrial C sequestration. We then- describe base case projections from our intersectoral model, results from simulation of an afforestation C program (Parks and Hardie 1995), and projected impacts of meeting specific C sequestration "output" targets in a least social cost fashion. 2,. Methods of Past Studies Previous studies of C sequesttation through affotll~tation of marginal agricultural land can in part be differentiated by iheg-ent of management hvestment decisions and land prices in both the forest Wagridturd sectors. A group of single sector studies. such as Haynes et ai. (1994). focus on the impacts of various exogenous levels of land-transfers on the forest sector and on forest C storage, baied on econometric models centered on histdricd land use relationships (AIig 1986; USDA Forest-Service 1990). Modeling of land transfers in these studies do not involve inte*mpord feedbacks that ~e~opize developments in agriculture or for forest land prices and the intwsity of forest management on private ownerships. Moulton and Richards (1990) and Parks and Hardie (1995) explicitly cwsider the opprmnity cost of the cmnt use of land in deriving supply schedulks for C sequestered in trees planted on rnaq@& agricultural land. In Parks and Hardie (1 9951, for example, supply awes for transf6rabie land are positively sloped (unit costs rise as more land is shifted) but are fixed over time with no feedback from changes in forest and agricultural markets. Modton and.richds (I 990) also provide supply curves for sequestering c by intensifying timber management on extant *

262 RALPH ALIG ET r ~, nous for privare owners. FASOM sirnulam the growth of existing and re, venerated stands by means of timber yield tables hit give the net wood volume per hectare in ested smds by age class for each smtum, Public timber harvests are &en r component in FASOM is adapted from the equilibrium to regom matching those used in forest assesset al. 1993). To convert ASM to a (disequi- repmented an annual p peated tar times each'decade. Demand and supply components were u decades by means of pmjswi growth impom. ASM simulates the produetion of 36 primary crop and live- commodities and 39 secondary, or processed. commodities. bps compete for land, labor, and irrigation water at the regional level. 'Ihe costs of sash iqu& an hcfudcd in budgets for regional production variables. b f than ~ 200 production pbssibilities (budges) npresent a@cultur;ll production in each decade, hcludhg field crop, livestock. and trre production. Farm policy programs are included only for the first decade in the model (Adams et al. 1996b; Alig qt al 1996). FASOM links the land Imrentorics in the a@cuitural and forest sectors (Alig et al. 1996). Suitable nonindustrial private land can, after timber harvest in the case of thbdand samvasion, brrwe~ agricu ad fomt uses based on considerations of intermun=es and the pvk lick? Estimates of the area of convertible fortftimd ah! derived from USDA studies and inventories of forcstfand with medium or high potential for conversion to crop or paittm use (USDA SCS 1989; 1994). Ami esthnates for coavotiblc agricultural land are drah largely from Moulton and Richards' (1990) study of" land suitable for tree planting. Land balances within sectoa and exchanges betw- secton are contmlled by constraints. FASOM as~otmt~ for fortst C and stedr changes for land; moving between sectors. The total C stored in the forest ecosystem of an u&~ested stand is composed of five C 'pis: 1) nee; 2) wody debris 3) mil; 4j fomt floor, and 5) understory. FASOM ~ESOW~S for C los~es in n~lummhanule mat& dispked fossil fuel hm the burning of wood for fuel. and C decay in prodm derived from h.w~~ted timk FASOM also accounts for diffemccs in SUB and understory c as land dl& fdrrst and agricultural USCS. Soil and vegetation C on agriculaual land is to be a constant that varies afcordbg to lad type (mpland and pa~mhd) and region. When a hectve of land is affbrested, the C by an amount equal to the dienmct bwea the agriculhrral level and the higher, steadyostate level of soi~'~lus undastory C for c pools hxn stands that.

timberfand, but do not cons ons betwem rhi Soresration and timber management supply schtdules. a al. (1993) link a highly simplified model of forest sector mark- (assuming exogmous management invesment decisions) with a detailed model of a that includes agricultural land - the A@cultuml Sector Model (ASM t al. 1992; McCd et ai. 1993). In a long-run equilibrium analysis, they es the costs of land transfers for afforestation * @- with (partid) adjustment in the sector, but with no feedbwk from, or * management adjusment m, the * I * b. 3. Model of Forestry and TO allow land exchange and land price equilibration between the forest and a@- cult= sectors, we poral mode1 of the two sectors. The Fonst and Agricul Model (FASOM) is consaucted as a multi-period, p ibrium marfret model flhyama - and Judge 1971). The o izes the discounted et:onomic weifan of producers and cosumm in the U.S. a&culture and fonst sectors over a finite time horizon. Quantity integrals of demand functions provide total willingness to pay, and the d f l i bctwem total willingness to pay and production and proc~sing costs is the sum of producer and consumer surpluses. me model operates on a decadal time step, with projections made for 9 decades to accom- ~odate treatment of terminal inventories. Policy analysis is limited to results for the 5Syear period from 1990 to 2040. Exogenous model elements in the forest ear componenh dmvn from the Tmbu Assessment Market Model (Adams and Haynes 1996), are held constant after the fifth decade. Terminal inventorb (at the end of the finite projxtbn period) are vaiued in both sectors, assuming pnpe~d, steady state management following the last year ofstbe time horizon (Adams et al. 1996a). Solutions am obtained using a separable programming approach. FASOM treats only the log market portion of the forest sector. Log demand is derived from the madrets for pmxwsed products such as lumber. plywood and papez logs are diff-tiated-by six product classes: hdwood and sowood sawlo@, pulpwood. and futlwood (Adams et d. 1996a).' FASOM describes @ale timberiand in terms of strata that are dfie~ntiated by: nine gmgraphic * ~gions, two classes of private ownaship (industrial and nonindusaid), four forest types (desding species compsitlon - softwood^ or hardwoods-- in the ctmmt. add imm#iiately prrceding romiijon). three site producthities (potentid for wood volume growth). fom-agacnt intensities (timber management regimes @ied to the areal2. suitability for transfa to or firom wdtd use (four clas~~ for m p Or pajm pius a "forest only* c h that can not shift use). and ten 10-y~ age C~WS. Harvest age. managuoent intensity, and fomt type decisions arc adage-

ASSESSING EWEClX OF MmGAmON SlRArrciES FOR GLOBAL UIUAIE CHANGE -263 forests- As the forest stand m e, this soil C difference Iessens as the soil and tate condition. men forested hectares revert loss of C associated with the soil, understory, and timber inventory is accomted for in reverse fashion. 4. Intersectoral Projdom With the linked model, we project a base case (BASE), a simulated fixed affowsmhectare transfer from agriculture to forest flux target scenariosi~examine the fixed affonstation tmmario as an example of programs that have been proposed involving large one-time afforestation actions. In the C target scenarios, we look more broadly at land base and rmnagement adjusmenu that would be necessary to achieve specific C Bux trajeaoric~ over time. 4.1. BASE CASE: * We first consider the BASE and then cornpan those projections to model results under the fixed afforestation and C target scenarios. The BASE pmjection entails an array of land use reiiiiocations and land management shifts. Assumptions on exogenous inputs to the BASE case for the forest sector derive from the USDA. Forest Service's 1993 RPA Update (Haynes et al. 1995) while agriculture sector assumptions were taken from Chang et ai. (1992) and McCd et al. (1993)-4 4.1.1- Economic We Projected welfare measures for the BASE and changes associated with the alternative simulations are shown in Table L Differences in the size of BASE welfm measures between sectors, while striking, an &poiant to our dysis. We are concerned only with changes in the weifare measures at the margin. which axe not nwmsdy pmpoztionai in size to the components of the overall welfm estimates. hkctions of intersectoral land transfers for d scenarios an provided in Table n. 1. the BASE appmximatefy.21.4 million hectares are msfemd between sectors fhm 1990 to 2039. Forestry di a net gain fiom a @cut~ of 5.0 million hams (Figure 1); 23 dion hectares from mp uses and 2.7 million hecrares des. BASE land tramif- fall within the range of historical experi- ' ace, =presenting less than 10% of the existing agricultural land base. indicative of ds-ccs in iand capabititig, transfen an concentrated in the East- Less than 0.3 miifion hectares change use in west of the Great Plains. 'I'kmf i of agriculturr laad to forestry use an c-w in the Iirst two projection ~eacies. is due in part to the nlativeiy tight supply and demand situation for

264 RALPH AUG ET AL Table I. Disnibutim of mifan in du BASE and chanpu in rht Net Present Valuea of s+icc@d welfare corn for amtation and cartxm target scenarios (S 1990 biilion). Ehsc Fd Carbon Carbon Cadm Surplus rncasun Case -afforrstatim t 1 mgct 2 targcr 3.. Total 41.7 1 9.4-39 -50.8-20.7 43.4 W~lalcd using a discount raw of 4% over 90 yean. Includes surpiuvs fmm fmign trade not shwm in detail. Tpbe R FASOM pmwonr fa na -fa of land to nonindusmal privau: f-t fm agricul- uses fm thc BASE and four scenarios, 1990-2039 ('000 htctarrs)' -- Fixed Carbon Carbon Carbon u s ) BASE affolhstatioa tglgct 1 target 2 target 3 1990 2431 3902 8855 6382 2464 2000 4061 3315 -#85I 3109 3516 1990-2039 4983 331 I 12649 8410 13664 a Positive number indicates ntt a.feoresmzioh forest products that is influenced by the existing age class structure of forests that contain limited merchantable voluqu. 4 4.13. Forest Mcinagemen 8 Investment- -. In addition to land ~ e s s the. BASE involves signififant changes in the htensiy of private tiprber manamat One indicator of the intensity of management is area in plantations. including convmion ofhdwd types to soffwoods. Relative to the 1990 levei, the BASE adds 155 million hwtare~ of private forest plantations in the fiat decade (Figure 2). leading to d u d area of ndly rcgmemted stant&. i ~ fewer, low intmsity and passively manag& heclarts. This exceeds the 9.7 million private hectarr~ planted to fore~o over the past decade in the +

ASSESSING EFFECK OF NmCATION STRATEGlES FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE W G E Scenario figwe I. hjcmci ~nuiativc intmxmaf land b-dnffers for the bare c m an afforcsetion sctniarioandthneanbantarg#rrtrtan'c#,199e2039. U.S, with the largest diff-ccs on nonmdushal privae lands. In the second decade. private owners add an additional 15.8 million hccws of plantations. For the mmainder of the projection private plantation a~ rises less rapidly, increasing about 14% betweca 2010 and 2039. A higher proportion of investments on industry ownexships is in relatively intensive plantation management (e.g, prrcommmiaf thinning, fer@lization, and commercial thinning) cokparcd to nonindusaial lands. Most of the pro&!& intensification of limber management is in che South and the Pwific Northwest Thi a m in urmmerciafly-prefemd sofnhood types rises. with conversion of hardwood typu to planted softwood stands. Conversion of hardwoods is driven by a rcfative sofrw& shortage (and rising softwood sawtimber prices). This, in turn, causq declining harvest volume leveh and rising prices for hardwoods staning mund2b20. Despite we changes. only about onethird of the future private forest landscape would consist of plantations. and most timbedand anxi in nonindusaial private ownership would still be conccnaat#l in the two lowest management intensity cimu that involve naturally =generated.. stands. Tile III shows the projected time path of the C inventory on private timwand The initial estimate for the C invenmry (1990) is 23-71 gigatonnu (billions of

Scenario -8ase Case +Afforestation *Carbon Target 1 *-Carbon Target 2 -*Carbon Target 3 Figum2. Projected private softarodd piantation ~ for bau CaSc. dm#! cts, 1990-2039. scenario and metric tonnes). similar to Birdsey's (1992) and Turner et ai.*s (1 993) estimates. C storage in the BASE rises at an increasing rate between 1990 and 2009 and at a basing ratc themdkr, In the 1990s. the 'C stoek p ws by 4%, equal to a "8 uxw (or avuage change in C stock over the decade) of 0.98 gigatonnes per decade. The BASE flux then aaains its maximurm Ievci of 1.61 1 gigatomes per decade during 2000-2009. C fluxes remain positive ova the projection. but drop to 0.7 gigatonnu by the 2030s decade-. 4.2. &3ERN& SCPJARIoS: AFH)RESTA3[1ON AREA INPUT AND CARBON. - TARGETS + Affiomtation through tree planting has ban proposed a~ one of the less expensive meam of C sequestration in tree biomass (e.g., Moulton and Richards 1990). Hue we simulate a Yfon=cdm land use shia from agricdtum through afforestation of 4-9 of pasturrland between 1990 and 1999. The model is c~luaaind to transfer at least the Jpecified amount of land. ace forested, howeva. we do not quire that these hectares rcmain in f~vt~w *finitely, nor do we restrict any contemporanmu or ensuing shifts in fomt or land that might occur in.-response to this initial transfez

vxed lncnment relative to BASE 1.61 26.30 1.66 26.41 1.61 26.93 2.01 27.10 1.61 26.30.2020 4 7 27.77 1.49 27.90 1.61 28.54 1.86 28.97 1.47 27.77 2030 1.10 28.87 1.06. 28.96 1.61 30.16 1.50 30.47 1.58 29.35 2040 0.68 29.55 033 29.49 1.61 31.77 1.08 31.55 1.78 31.13 ' pecada! Rux is computed as the difference lo carbon stock lcveli at the stan of successive decades.

Reacting to the pasture land intended in policy fomrulati ' land being converted to a age). nius. the net effect on land ma in forest vusus a&&iturc is significantly ious studis urhg static affdntation cast schedula and Hardie 1995). & a result,pjteted differnrcu in timber harvest levels and timber inventory volume = mlativeiy small between the BASE and the affo~t~tation scenario. I 4.22 Carbon Se~ues~.arion Tqnt Table m ~ f~~ws the plojected C hvcntory and flux rates for the BASE. In this and other studies (Birdsey 1992; Tuma et al 1993) the rate of in- in forest C storage p a eariy in the projection period. But policy maless an also interested in the costs and i ing constant or increasing ram of forest C sequestration in the face gas emissions that may grow due to rising popdation and such poiick we developed thnv SCC~~~~OS in which C goals are expressed as a series bf dccadal C flux targets CIgble m)? Scenario I has a constant ff ux target, the taxget in Scmario 2 is a Bux p m which is a fixed amount above the BASE lev& in each decade, while Scmario 3 hat a rising l0ng-m C 8 ux pattern Fluxes in dl target scenarios must be at least as latge as those in the BASE in each daade and W- funher ~~ll~mthed m meet the following targee by xmario: 1) C flux in all decadu no smaller than the maximum BASE decadal level of 1.61 gigamnners; per decade; 2) C Bux 0.4 gi&ato~t~ 1qn than the co~pdnding BASE rart in each decade; md 3) C Bux that stam at the tint-decade BASE level and thm grows each decade by an increasing amount of. 0.2 gigatoms per dsade (i.e, pwth acceleratbg by 02 gigatonncs each subequent decade). All Bux targets rire geld amstant after 2040. No TCS-CIS wae piad on how these tagets could b met. In light of the hemodel objective fimdon. the d * g solutions can Wcasidcred least socid cost d ~ ~ of land n s and investments to met the tagen. whae least social cost k defined as the minimum loss in the NP'f? of the welfare of pmducus and consumus in the sgddqurt and m t sectors*. Pmiemed Carbon Stocks and F h. Figure 3 shows s in C Ruxu nlative to the BASE Scmario 1 requa a 1.61 gigatonnes each decade, which in the first dsadc h 0.63 gi than the BASE fiux. This -ts a substmtial inme in. Ihe sire of the C * '

ASSESSING EFFECTS OF MmGATfON STRAEGf65: FOR GLOBAL CLlMATE CHANGE 269 k o ~ a w shor~ To rea& t& objective. fust-dd net &or#;tation is 6.4 minion h~~tarcs higher than in the BASE more than a thm-fold in&c. Net afforestation Rmainr higher in laq. decader as the target flux stays constant while the BASE flux By the ZOZ(k2IM9 decade, for example, Sanario 1 requins 6.3 d o n hectarrs more &bst&ion than th~ BASE case. Viewed from the agricultural side. the mutative amount of forest land converted to ap3ticulturai use in this scenario, and the other two C met -arias a~ well. is less ;ban in the BASE

270 RALPH ALIG ~ A L Scenario 3 qukd,ndrully rising Rux ntcs (though never less he BASE). It entails n fairly steep rise in C Rux relatiye to the BASE after 2019 (figre 3) with ram by 2040 morr: than twice he BASE To reach these hieher lone-tern targets. Scenario 3 has the largest rates of afforestation in the later decades of the three tqeu and as well the lqst cumulative mount of net afloorcstation 4.224. Welfae Efects ufgzrhn Seqtt~fnan'~n. TOM net ;beid welfve costs of the h e C target scenarios - nptcsating oppomity costr to society - range from $20.7 billion for tapt 2 to $50.8 billion for 1. mesc&su reflect be size and ms ofthe ad ib~ some potentidly impomt ajde-off's. While target 2 involves modest increments in C RUX in chc h t t+o decades. fluxes may decline (following the BASB thereafkez Its COSB an lowest in large pan because objectives in these latter peziods can be achieved by husbandin, Q initial afforesration increments with no funha mapr additions m the fomted land base. Under this scenario forest stock am tailored to mew declining tarnen through expanded harvest (accompanied by declining prices) in later decades. Twet I, in contxast, requires larger flux.incnmena both before and after the 2000 decade peak in BASE RUX. The higher (present value) of welfare losses relative to other scmarios results prhnarily from sidle shift in a@cultunl limds needed to meet dux limits in the first decade. Additional shif'ts arc required in later periods but amounts axe smaller relative to Scenario 3 and have reduced impact due to discounting. This latter pmccss also explains the lower costs of Scutario 3. While more acres am dorested in this scenario than in Scenario 1, it is possible to esen the use shifts in a gradual fahion over time. pushing costs into the diitant and mom heavily diunted firm. 'Ihe impacts of the C target scenarios on welfare the agricuittd sector lut consistent with expectations. Consumus' surplus falls in all of the ~~enarios. LOSS= are large& in Scenario I at $76.4 billion (Table 0. which chvoived the!agest amount of &stdecade net afforestation r&)e II). Reducing the amount of agricultural land lowers agricultural production ad drives up land and agricullturai commodity prices. Higher agricultural commodity prices txan~le into losses in consumus' surplus. RoduEer surpiuses increase because of the inelastic of agricultural mmmodi~demand cum=. The largest inmat is $40.1 bmion in Swdo 3. Government costs for agricultural farm and conservation proc- are reduced fwd1 three C target ~ u i ~ which s. requh more na affotcs~on ti^^ the BASE h the 1990s dede while fm programs ye still in effeci More net *=don ti^^ to reduce 3griculW land availability, in-e ahcu1nral commodity prices. raise the @as coll~umm'pay, and narrow the gap between tqp prices and mrb prices (ahmy and 1995). This ducts thc net pmat value of thc deficienq paymmts to fanncts. leading iu& payments in the m e of $0. I to 21 billion across the %e C wet scenarios. The - 1 duction 0

<- ASSESSMG EFFECX OF M ~GA~ON STRATUS~ KIR GLOBAL QU~AA~E CHANGE 271 is for Scenario I that had the.1-t in the model when fana p ment expenditures SO afforestrarion, howevtr, are not c for the: tixed affofes nu &onstation in the 1990s, he decade s are in effect, Unknown amounu of govern- ;her management intemification and ed on analysis of costs ns with FASOM intefsecurni projectins.. Scenarios 1 aad 2 ww stsnti;tt additiond amount to indun more net *Somation h glven $kt opppomity costs of af-e fand e at hi@- levels of SorertAon. la theforestsector, the on weifan of consumers and producen ion unda this scenario. Consumer gain is larger than producer loss. nsuiting in a net gain to the forrstry seaor of 51.2 billion. While Scenario 3 had farmom land shifted from agricultms, more of the forest inventozy had to be rc~ewed to meet the high= terminal C flux target. Given the need to increase C storagh product harvest f& and prices rise mlativt to the BASE and consumer w&hrc d&iines Projccmi weifan impacts under Scenario 1 am similar to those for Scemrio 3 wich mpect to general types of effects on uca &d consumcn. but the timing is switehal with most impacts in the fint two*. S, Di-on and Coaddom hiicy makas arc mrxmtly debating the role of fokt C sinks in achieving reduc- 8 tiom in atmosphuic carbon dioxide. pno- to tcrratriai C ~eque~tdion can produce complex interactions betwietn the forest and agricuihrrat sectors as a result of land use dlanges and inmownu and inteprtgionai *- pattern of bcstmcnt in forest managem& Pat studies have examined the impacts of potential policies with rn- that (0 ignore spiiloven in Ihs other sector, or (ii) simply "add up" *hnpac?s'aaro~~ two secton, ignorhg f6tdbaci;s or inmxtions through the markco for land, or (i&3 trrat forest mmgement invest- - merit as exogenous. The pent smdy applies a W model of the US. for&. and agriculwc sectors that treats botb land use and forest managemmt imresrment - decisions as cn*&enous,. L hthe C &u@% Scmario~ f sad 3, with a consnnt or. growing lux inerrmen$ mhivt to the BASE of Wculnue land is an important SOUSIX of the C hentory inamxs. These land use shiftr wac n* howeva. &ona a d for allw shifb. In some cases, large a ~ s ture to forestry d y in the projection and were subsequently agricuinue in lam y-.

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