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Use of indexing to update United States annual timber harvest by state

This report provides an index method that can be used to update recent estimates of timber harvest by state to a common current year and to make 5-year projections. The Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program makes estimates of harvest for each state in differing years. The purpose of this updating method is to bring each state-level estimate up to a...

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Author(s):

James Howard; Enrique Quevedo; Andrew Kramp

Year:

2009

Keywords:

Timber harvest index, forest products, FIA, FPL, logging, United States, statistics, estimates, indexing

Source:

Research Paper FPL-RP-653. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory.

Ratios for estimating logging residue in the Pacific Northwest.

Ratios are presented for estimating the volume of logging residue for any location in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. They show cubic-foot volume of logging residue per 1,000 board feet of timber harvested and per acre harvested. Tables show gross and net volumes, with and without bark. The volumes of live and dead and cull residue at the time of harvest are also given...

Author(s):

James O. Howard

Year:

1981

Keywords:

Residue measurements, slash, Pacific Northwest

Source:

Res. Pap. PNW-RP-288. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 26 p

Estimators and characteristics of logging residue in California.

Ratios are presented for estimating volume and characteristics of logging residue in California. The ratios relate cubic-foot volume of residue to thousand board feet of timber harvested and to acres harvested. Tables show gross and net volume of residue, with and without bark, by diameter and length classes, by number of pieces per acre, by softwoods and hardwoods, by...

Author(s):

James O. Howard; Julianne K. Bulgrin

Year:

1986

Keywords:

slash, residue management, residue estimation, California

Source:

Res. Pap. PNW-RP-355. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 82 p

Biomass relations for components of five Minnesota shrubs.

Presents equations for estimating biomass of six components on five species of shrubs common to northeastern Minnesota. Regression analysis is used to compare the performance of three estimators of biomass.

Author(s):

Richard R. Buech; David J. Rugg

Year:

1995

Keywords:

biomass estimation, tall shrubs, prediction equations, biomass equations, allometric relations

Source:

Research Paper NC-325. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station

Projecting recovered paper supply in the United States.

The use of recovered paper has an influence on the amount of timber harvested as well as the feasibility of expanded recycling programs. During the 1990?s markets and prices for recovered materials have fluctuated widely. There are a number of factors driving these market changes including economic conditions domestically and internationally. The objective of this...

Author(s):

James L. Howard; Ken Skog; Peter J. Ince

Year:

2002

Keywords:

Recovered Paper, spot, contract, hypothesis, supply.

Source:

Proceedings of the 2001 Society of American Foresters national convention, Denver, Colorado, September 13-17, 2001. Bethesda, MD : Society of American Foresters, c2002: Pages 464-465.

Criterion 6, indicator 33 : recovery or recycling of forest products as a percentage of total forest products consumption

This indicator shows the trend in recovering wood and paper for reuse in products in the United States. This reuse can hold down the need to harvest wood to meet U.S. consumption needs. The paper recycling rate (utilization rate in producing new paper) increased from 22% to 38% between 1970 and 1996, but then stabilized at 37% to 38% between 1996 and 2006. This rate...

Author(s):

Ken Skog; James Howard; Rebecca Westby

Year:

2011

Keywords:

Wood products, United States, forest products, wood waste, recycling, forest products industries, waste wood, recovery, indicators, supply balance, consumption, wood utilization, wood recycling, paper recycling, recovery rate, utilization rate, recycling rate

Source:

Research Note FPL-RN-0321. Madison, WI : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 2011: 9 p.

Fifty-Year Durability Evaluation of Posts Treated with Industrial Wood Preservatives

Long-term durability data are needed to improve service life estimates for treated wood products used as critical structural supports in industrial applications. This article reports the durability of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) posts pressure treated with ammoniacal copper arsenate (ACA), chromated copper arsenate (CCA), creosote, or...

Author(s):

Stan T. Lebow; Patricia Lebow; Bessie Woodward; Grant T. Kirker; Rachel Arango

Year:

2015

Keywords:

Posts, durability, 50 years, preservative treatment, ammoniacal copper arsenate, chromated copper arsenated, creosote, pentachlorophenol

Source:

Forest Products Journal

A synthesis of postfire road treatments for BAER teams: methods, treatment effectiveness, and decisionmaking tools for rehabilitation

We synthesized post-fire road treatment information to assist BAER specialists in making road rehabilitation decisions. We developed a questionnaire; conducted 30 interviews of BAER team engineers and hydrologists; acquired and analyzed gray literature and other relevant publications; and reviewed road rehabilitation procedures and analysis tools. Post-fire road...

Author(s):

Randy B. Foltz; Peter R. Robichaud; Hakjun Rhee

Year:

2008

Keywords:

wildfire, BEAR, burned area, emergency response, peak flow, roads

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-228 Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 152 p.

Using hyperspectral imagery to estimate forest floor consumption from wildfire in boreal forests of Alaska, USA

Wildfire is a major forest disturbance in interior Alaska that can both directly and indirectly alter ecological processes. We used a combination of pre- and post-fire forest floor depths and post-fire ground cover assessments measured in the field, and high-resolution airborne hyperspectral imagery, to map forest floor conditions after the 2004 Taylor Complex in...

Author(s):

Sarah A. Lewis; Andrew T. Hudak; Roger D. Ottmar; Peter R. Robichaud; Leigh B. Lentile; Sharon M. Hood; James B. Cronan; Penny Morgan

Year:

2011

Keywords:

burn severity, carbon, duff, hyperspectral remote sensing, moss

Source:

International Journal of Wildland Fire. 20: 255-271.

A simulation of probabilistic wildfire risk components for the continental United States

This simulation research was conducted in order to develop a large-fire risk assessment system for the contiguous land area of the United States. The modeling system was applied to each of 134 Fire Planning Units (FPUs) to estimate burn probabilities and fire size distributions. To obtain stable estimates of these quantities, fire ignition and growth was simulated for...

Author(s):

Mark A. Finney; Charles W. McHugh; Isaac C. Grenfell; Karin L. Riley; Karen C. Short

Year:

2011

Keywords:

wildfire risk, simulation research, LANDFIRE

Source:

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 25: 973-1000.

Science You Can Use Bulletin: From watersheds to the web: Online tools for modeling forest soil erosion

Forest erosion can lead to topsoil loss, and also to damaging deposits of sediment in aquatic ecosystems. For this reason, forest managers must be able to estimate the erosion potential of both planned management activities and catastrophic events, in order to decide where to use limited funds to focus erosion control efforts. To meet this need, scientists from RMRS (...

Author(s):

Sue Miller; Bill Elliot; Pete Robichaud; Randy Foltz; Dennis Flanagan; Erin Brooks

Year:

2014

Keywords:

watersheds, forest soil erosion, modeling, online tools, Forest Service-Water Erosion Prediction Project, FS-WEPP, Erosion Risk Management Tool, ERMiT

Source:

Science You Can Use Bulletin, Issue 14. Fort Collins, CO: Rocky Mountain Research Station. 10 p.