California’s forest products industry and timber harvest, 2006

Abstract

The Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is dedicated to the principle of multiple use management of the Nation's forest resources for sustained yields of wood, water, forage, wildlife, and recreation. Through forestry research, cooperation with the States and private forest owners, and management of the National Forests and National Grasslands, it strives-as directed by Congress-to provide increasingly greater service to a growing Nation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, or because all or part of an individual's income is derived from any public assistance program. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.

Biomass power plant feedstock procurement: Modeling transportation cost zones and the potential for competition

“…Harvesting amounts and operational cost differences in the county have been directly influenced by the type of harvesting methods used, which varied by landowner type (Hohl et al 2013;Morgan et al 2012). Hence, using spatial data obtained from the Humboldt County Planning and Building Department, we classified the timberlands based on their ownership.…”

California's forest products industry and timber harvest, 2012

“…Since the late 1980s, both private and national forest harvests have declined with reductions in the harvest from national forests accounting for the majority of the difference. The Source: Morgan et al 2004Morgan et al , 2012 land ownership patterns and landowner preferences; and the recent recession and poor markets for wood products, which put downward pressure on the price paid to landowners selling logs, making harvesting financially unfeasible. Combined, the harvest from industrial and nonindustrial private lands in 2012 accounted for 84 percent of the total harvest in California, even though private timberlands only make up 43 percent of the total timberland in the state ( fig.…”

Carbon calculator tracks the climate benefits of managed private forests

“…Our modeling tracked wood products through sawmills and energy plants, drawing on published allocation of products and conversion efficiencies (Christensen et al 2008;Morgan et al 2012). Our 45-year half-life for wood products produced in California was based on the weighted combination of a 60-year half-life for lumber products (McKeever and Howard 2011;Skog 2008) and a 15-year half-life for other products that is proportional to the allocation in California (Morgan et al 2012).…”

“…Our 45-year half-life for wood products produced in California was based on the weighted combination of a 60-year half-life for lumber products (McKeever and Howard 2011;Skog 2008) and a 15-year half-life for other products that is proportional to the allocation in California (Morgan et al 2012). According to McKeever and Howard (2011), 57% of California's lumber products go into buildings, where the wood is estimated to provide additional carbon sequestration benefits and energy savings by displacing fossil fuel alternatives (Sathre and O'Connor 2010).…”

“…To estimate the sequestration benefits associated with harvested products, we used the most current state and regional information on where harvested wood goes (Morgan et al 2012) and how products are used (McKeever and Howard 2011;Sathre and O'Connor 2010;Skog 2008;Smith et al 2009). Stewart and Nakamura (2012) used these same sources and estimated that the sequestration benefits of harvested wood were two times (when wood used for bioenergy is The increase in carbon stands over time in a let-grow forest, above, is based on the observed rate of live tree carbon by stand age.…”