Logging planning and layout costs for thinning : experience from the Willamette Young Stand Project
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- Logging planning and layout costs for thinning : experience from the Willamette Young Stand Project
- Kellogg, L. D. (Loren D.)
- Milota, Ginger
- Stringham, Bennett
- Oregon State University. Forest Research Laboratory
- Douglas fir -- Thinning -- Oregon -- Willamette National Forest -- Costs
- Logging -- Oregon -- Willamette National Forest -- Costs
- 1998
- Corvallis, Or. : College of Forestry, Forest Research Laboratory, Oregon State University
- Research contribution (Oregon State University. Forest Research Laboratory)
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- Logging planning and layout costs were examined for commercial thinning of 40- to 50-yr-old stands of Douglas-fir on the Willamette National Forest in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. The study consisted of four replications of three silvicultural treatments. Thinning involved three types of logging systems: mechanized cut-to-length (a combination of single-grip harvester and forwarder), tractor, and skyline. Data for the study came from two sources: activities completed by the Forest Service in preparing sales for bid, and the layout completed by the logging contractor after a contract was awarded. Planning and layout costs showed no consistent relationship to type of silvicultural treatment. Logging contractor layout costs showed a relationship to type of logging system: the mechanized system had the lowest layout cost, followed by the tractor systems, with the skyline systems having the highest costs.
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