Sixty nonindustrial small-forest owners were interviewed in
Lane County, Oregon to determine their objectives for forest lands,
and knowledge of and attitudes toward public assistance in forestry.
Owners were randomly sampled from a preselected size class
of 10 to 200 acres. A formal questionnaire was used to measure
forest land...
Detrimental impacts of estate taxes on management of private
nonindustrial forests can be mitigated by estate planning which
considers organizational forms of forest businesses and methods for
funding estate settlement costs. This study's objective was to determine
effects of business form and estate funding method on income
and estate tax...
Foresters in the Pacific Northwest are directing increasing effort into the management of young-growth forests. These foresters find themselves in a transition period in which they are beginning to develop the framework for managing young-growth forests while they continue to manage substantial reserves of old-growth timber. In this transition period,...
The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of
processing and marketing the hardwood bark and finewood residue
materials generated by the primary wood using industries located within
the project study area (an area encompassing all of Illinois and
area fifty miles wide surrounding Illinois). The study (1970...
The objectives of this study are to reveal the present condition
of the public forest resource of Lane County and to estimate its potential
to support an expanding wood-using industry. The study was
supported by the Bohemia Lumber Company of Lane County as the
initial part of an analysis of...
Management decisions are generally considered to be made
under one of three categories of future knowledge: certainty, risk,
or uncertainty. All three categories occur in forest management.
However, forest management decisions whose outcomes are dependent
upon future levels of timber yields, prices, utilization standards,
or social and legal institutions are...
Recently, the millwork industry in Oregon, an important consumer
of pine lumber produced in this region, has undergone a series of changes which have seemingly affected its structure and marketing organization.
The principal purpose of this study is to explain these changes in terms of economic analysis and to find...
Much forest land in Western Oregon has been lost to production due to brush competition. As the demand for forest products increases,
more attention should be paid to the reclamation of these unproductive lands.
Chemical herbicides have been proven an efficient tool for brush control from the physiological viewpoint. This...
The logging industry is defined as being comprised of firms
which combine capital and labor resources in a production process
for converting stumpage into industrial roundwood. The industry
occupies an important position in a series of inter-connected markets
and manufacturing processes which links stumpage producers with
wood product manufacturers and...
An attempt was made to determine the justifiable expenditure
for the protection of tangible timber values from fire. Upon finding
the data inadequate for such a determination, the decision was
reached to continue the analysis, determine the data deficiencies,
and then make recommendations that would enable these data deficiencies
to...