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  • Radiative forcing and forest climate policy

    Creator:
    Thompson, Matthew P.
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    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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    this, Gibbard et al. (2005) argue that more research is necessary before forest carbon storage is

  • A comparison of the value of forest plans developed under three levels of detail regarding management intentions

    Creator:
    Hirte, Sarah Rebecca
    Abstract:
    In the field of forest planning, assumptions regarding the appropriate modeling of management behavior, translated through management prescriptions, minimum harvest ages, green-up periods, and other variables are needed if a stand-level optimization process is not used to guide the selection of stand management regimes Forest planners thus generally have a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    implement. The overall objective of this research is to understand the differences in forest plan

  • Wood properties and use of sensor technology to improve optimal bucking and value recovery of Douglas-fir

    Creator:
    Acuna, Mauricio A.
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    There are a number of wood properties which affect the quality of forest products such as lumber and pulp. Of these, wood density is considered by some to be the single most important physical characteristic because it is an excellent predictor of strength, stiffness, hardness, and paper-making capacities. Accurately assessing...
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    (Noskowiak 1963; Forest Products Laboratory 1999). Lumber sawn from such logs is characterized by slope of

  • In-forest log segregation based on acoustic measurement of wood stiffness

    Creator:
    Amishev, Dzhamal Y.
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    To remain competitive, the forest products industry needs to look for new and innovative processes and technologies to not only reduce costs but also to recover more value through the entire seedling-to-customer forest products supply chain. It is well recognized that measuring wood properties of logs in real time during...
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    Dissertation
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    applications………………..4 1.1.4 Mechanization and technologies in forest operations…………………...10 1.2 RESEARCH

  • Forest biomass estimation with hemispherical photography for multiple forest types and various atmospheric conditions

    Creator:
    Clark, Joshua Andrew
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    The importance of accurately identifying inventories of domestic energy, including forest biomass, has increasingly become a priority of the US government and its citizens as the cost of fossil fuels has risen. It is useful to identify which of these resources can be processed and transported at the lowest cost...
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    Dissertation
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    Methodology to test effect of sun angle in MacDonald-Dunn research forest: ........ 21 Methodology for

  • 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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    in my research. I also would like to thank my fellow graduate students in the Forest Resource

  • 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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    Master of Science in Forest Resources presented on December 12th, 2000. Title: Measuring Costs of

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

    Creator:
    Helvoigt, Ted L.
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    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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    THE THESIS OF Ted L. Helvoigt for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Forest Resources presented

  • Sustainable energy for Galena, Alaska: Timber Harvest Management Plan

    Creator:
    Kalke, Timothy R.
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    Increased energy costs have prompted the rural village of Galena, Alaska to explore viable alternatives for heat and power generation. Continued dependency on petroleum products will cause the community’s economic driving force, the Galena Interior Learning Academy (GILA), to face uncertain operability. A wood-fired boiler is scheduled to be installed,...
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    Capstone Project
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    . .......................................................................................... 39 C. Forest Road Network

  • Optimizing the primary forest products supply chain : a multi-objective heuristic approach

    Creator:
    Hamann, Jeff D.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is a collection of four submitted manuscripts that present methods to assist forest ecosystem service managers wanting to develop operational sampling, monitoring, and production plans for a set of specific quantifiable ecosystem services, which are formulated as a series of general multi-objective optimization problems. The problems are solved...
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    of Doctor of Philosophy in Forest Engineering presented on July 14, 2008. Title: Optimizing the