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Forest Harvest Residue Moisture Management in the Pacific Northwest, USA

Creator:: Belart Lengerich, Maria Francisca
Abstract:: Moisture content management is a key requirement to improve forest harvest residue economics for bioenergy production. This dissertation aims to contribute towards better management through these three general objectives (1) Determine average moisture content of fresh forest harvest residues and its changes over the different seasons of the year, focusing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: in large piles at the landing. In gentle slope, a common logging method in the Pacific Northwest

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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: productivity growth in the Pacific Northwest sawmilling industry over the period 1968-2002. Productivity

Environmental effects of postfire logging: literature review and annotated bibliography

Creator:: McIver, James D. and Starr, Lynn
Abstract:: The scientific literature on logging after wildfire is reviewed, with a focus on environmental effects of logging and removal of large woody structure. Rehabilitation, the practice of planting or seeding after logging, is not reviewed here. Several publications are cited that can be described as 'commentaries', intended to help frame...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Response of Soil Microbially Mediated Nutrient Cycling and Community Structure to Timber Harvest in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Danielson, Rachel E.
Abstract:: Forest harvest persists as one of the most globally important industries, and crucially provides raw wood products for both building and fuel materials. Mechanistically complex abiotic and biotic processes curb ecosystem recovery following timber harvest and it is of great importance to understand the effects of this practice on biogeochemical...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Community Structure to Timber Harvest in the Pacific Northwest

The effects of increased supply and emerging technologies in the forest products industry on rural communities in the northwest U.S.

Creator:: Crandall, Mindy S.
Abstract:: The development of a market for currently non-merchantable forest material, such as harvest residues of tops and limbs of trees or small diameter trees, has been suggested as a possible win-win solution that could: (i) provide a financial incentive to help motivate treatments to reduce wildfire risk or restore forest...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -sized) forest trees in the Pacific Northwest is typically done with cable or ground-based logging

The impact of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 on Pacific Northwest wheat transportation : a spatial equilibrium analysis

Creator:: Cabeza, Felix
Abstract:: This study analyzes the impact of the 1980 Staggers Rail Act (SRA) on Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana) wheat transportation. A minimum cost uncapacitated transshipment network flow model is employed to simulate the origination and destination pattern of grain flows before (1977) and after (1985) the SRA. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : The Impact of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 on Pacific Northwest Wheat Transportation: A Spatial

Economic considerations for expanded feeding of livestock in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Grimshaw, Paul R.
Abstract:: Several agricultural and related industry groups in the Pacific Coast states have expressed concern about the competitive position of these states in the production of feed grains and livestock products. This study was directed toward the investigation of these concerns. In order to permit the real world situation, with its...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: RIGHTS RESERVED Economic Considerations for Expanded Feeding of Livestock in the Pacific Northwest

A Multi-Spatial Scale Economic Analysis of the Impacts of Bear Damage to Douglas-fir on Private Timberlands in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Kline, Kristina N.
Abstract:: Black bears (Ursus americanus) in western Oregon and Washington peel bark from conifers in early spring to forage on the sugar-rich phloem and cambial tissues. This provides important energy at a time when similarly attractive forage is scarce. Bears often damage Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) trees in stands that are intensively...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Impacts of Bear Damage to Douglas-fir on Private Timberlands in the Pacific Northwest Abstract

Pacific Northwest rangeland carbon sequestration

Creator:: Wiggins, Seth T.
Abstract:: This paper models the supply curve of carbon sequestration on Pacific Northwest rangelands. Rangeland managers have the ability to sequester carbon in agricultural soils by implementing alternative management practices on their farms. Their low adoption rate in practice suggests a high opportunity cost associated with their implementation. To increase their...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Pacific Northwest rangelands. Rangeland managers have the ability to sequester carbon in agricultural

Cost-efficient management of aquatic invasive species : application to New Zealand mudsnails in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Lim, Youngah
Abstract:: By affecting the ecological, pecuniary and aesthetic productivity of ecosystems, invasive species (IS) increase production and management costs to business, while straining public agencies' budgets with monitoring, enforcement and management efforts. Understanding invasion pathways or vectors, and identifying costs and benefits of alternative management strategies are critical to public and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Application to New Zealand Mudsnails in the Pacific Northwest AN ABSTRACT OF THE

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Forest Harvest Residue Moisture Management in the Pacific Northwest, USA

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

Environmental effects of postfire logging: literature review and annotated bibliography

Response of Soil Microbially Mediated Nutrient Cycling and Community Structure to Timber Harvest in the Pacific Northwest

The effects of increased supply and emerging technologies in the forest products industry on rural communities in the northwest U.S.

The impact of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 on Pacific Northwest wheat transportation : a spatial equilibrium analysis

Economic considerations for expanded feeding of livestock in the Pacific Northwest

A Multi-Spatial Scale Economic Analysis of the Impacts of Bear Damage to Douglas-fir on Private Timberlands in the Pacific Northwest

Pacific Northwest rangeland carbon sequestration

Cost-efficient management of aquatic invasive species : application to New Zealand mudsnails in the Pacific Northwest

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