The current price was fixed in 2013 at low levels, reflecting the concern to support the competitiveness of wood processing industries. Forests have been significantly degraded, due to mismanagement of deciduous forests and uncontrolled logging and clear-cutting across a wide area, especially of beech forests in the pre-war period when trees of higher quality were logged and those of poorer quality w'ere left behind. The creation of "erosion maps" of areas in Republika Srpska started in 2005.