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  • An analysis of technical efficiency and productivity growth in the Pacific Northwest sawmill industry

    Creator:
    Helvoigt, Ted L.
    Abstract:
    The objective of this project was to investigate technical efficiency and productivity growth in the Pacific Northwest sawmilling industry over the period 1968-2002. Productivity growth was decomposed into three components: technical change, efficiency change, and scale efficiency change. In addition, using econometric methods, changes in output elasticities and input substitution...
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    Dissertation
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    major source of employment and economic output. Changes in timber supply from private and public lands

  • Economic Benefit from Allowing Wildfires to Burn in Federal East-Side Cascade Forests

    Creator:
    Gagnon, Aaron R.
    Abstract:
    In this thesis I examine the question: can allowing a wildfire to burn this year result in a net positive economic gain? To answer this question I created 2,500 multiple sets of paired scenarios (called a fire of interest) which consist of ignitions, vegetation growth, and timber harvest over the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Management presented on December 10, 2015 Title: Economic Benefit from Allowing Wildfires to Burn in

  • Estimating a juniper biomass supply from private rangelands : the impact of distance and biotic factors on costs

    Creator:
    McCaulou, Jeff C.
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    Central Oregon has attracted attention as a potential location for a biomass industry based on a locally fixed source of western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis Hook) feedstock. This study identifies a supply of juniper from private lands to determine how much of the available juniper is economically supplied at alternative prices...
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    Masters Thesis
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    supply curve for juniper as a biofuel source will shift in response to policy and economic factors

  • Measuring costs of sequestering carbon in forest stands with different management regimes in western Oregon

    Creator:
    Zyrina, Olga A.
    Abstract:
    This project was a part of larger work that compared major factors controlling patterns of carbon dynamics in two regions of the globe, the Pacific Northwest, USA and northwestern Russia. It was funded through the NASA foundation (grant # NAG5- 6242). Human economic activity is causing the release of pollutants...
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    Masters Thesis
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    economic activity is causing the release of pollutants such as carbon dioxide. The increased concentration

  • The economics of carbon sequestration in western Oregon forests

    Creator:
    Im, Eun Ho
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    This study considered regional forest policies for sequestering carbon in existing forests in western Oregon. A model of log markets in western Oregon was employed to examine the impacts of forest policy changes on future carbon stock, harvests, and management activities. A carbon tax program, as a mitigation option for...
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    Dissertation
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    Oregon. Land use between forestry and agriculture in this region is relatively stable, about 80 percent

  • Thinning aged Douglas-fir : an analysis of mobilization costs and a log bucking strategy for revenue improvement

    Creator:
    Pilkerton, Stephen J.
    Abstract:
    Contract harvest operations have become the preferred approach to reducing the largest cost component of timber production through free market competition amongst logging contractors bidding or negotiating for work. The goal of this research was to investigate economic components of harvesting operations not previously studied for steep slope thinning harvests...
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    Dissertation
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    bidding or negotiating for work. The goal of this research was to investigate economic components of

  • Radiative forcing and forest climate policy

    Creator:
    Thompson, Matthew P.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is comprised of two manuscripts that relate to forest-based management strategies in the context of market-based climate change mitigation policies. The work questions the appropriateness of a singular focus on carbon sequestration given the albedo effect and its possible countervailing climatic impacts. Through a review of salient literature...
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    Masters Thesis
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    carbon flux are low (legal and/or economic roadblocks), as is the possibility to expand the forested