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

Creator:

Hamann, Jeff D.

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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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Dissertation

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3. AN EXAMINATION OF DESIGN-BASED AND MODEL-BASED SAMPLING FOR PRIMARY FOREST PRODUCTS SUPPLY
An evaluation of an inventory projection system : TRIM model predictions vs. forest inventory field measurements in North Carolina

Creator:

Mills, John R.

Abstract:

As part of the effort to evaluate TRIM (Timber Resource Inventory Model) for the next RPA National Assessment, a study was conducted using natural pine stands in North Carolina. TRIM has been used for regional timber supply studies in both the Pacific Northwest and the South (Southern Timber Supply Study)....

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

Creator:

Pilkerton, Stephen J.

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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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. CONTRIBUTION OF AUTHORS Dr. John Sessions guided the formulation of the mathematical model and was