Abstract:This study examined the effects of a new subsidy system, stand conditions, and forest road network on annual supply potentials and available amounts of timber and logging residues. Excepting a few municipalities, available amounts of logging residues with the new subsidy system were smaller than those with the old subsidy system because the subsidy in the new system was received for the thinning operations with more than 5 ha operation site areas and more than 10 m 3 /ha extracted volumes. Therefore, available amounts are expected to increase as a result of adapting forestry operation site areas and operation systems to the new subsidy system. According to stand conditions, final felling operations with Japanese cypress, larger supply potentials, gentle terrains, road sides, and shorter transporting distances led to a higher ratio of profitable subcompartments. Larger areas are expected to have an increased ratio of profitable sub-compartments. However, almost all profitable sub-compartments were less than 4 ha because forwarding distances FORMATH Vol.13: 20-40, DOI:10.15684/formath.13.20 Received Jul.24, 2013; Accepted Feb.25, 2014 1 Utsunomiya University, Japan, 2 Shinshu University, Japan, 3 Japan Wood Energy Co., Ltd., Japan, * Corresponding Author:aruga@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jpEffects of stand conditions on annual availability of logging residue 21 were estimated as average distances from the landings to all grids within the sub-compartments in this study, and larger areas tended to have longer forwarding distances and subsequently, higher forwarding costs. Since forest road networks were relatively well established in Tochigi prefecture, 73% of supply potentials and almost all available amounts of logging residues were within 100 m from existing roads.
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