I am looking for studies on costs and benefits of salvage logged forests (preferrably after windthrow /-break) to compare with the effort of salvage logging with different intensities in a recent windthrow.
Thanks!
I know of studies on windthrow from the Nordic countries and Canada that are not published in academic journals. Some of them are as follows:
Kärhä, K., Anttonen, T., Palander, T., Poikela, A., Keskinen, S., Laurén, A., Nuutinen, Y. and Rajala, P.T., 2015, October. Cutting productivity of windfalls in Finland. In Abstracts and Proceedings of the 48th Symposium on Forest Mechanization, Linz, Austria, 2015 (pp. 135-139). Institute of Forest Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences.
found here:
Conference Paper The Estimation of Extraction (Haulage) Distance for Forest H...
https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/8816/7/olofsson_pettersson_a_pettersson_j_160204.pdf (in Swedish but with English abstract + figure captions)
Saskatchewan blowdown salvage cost analysis : incremental costs for salvaging timber damaged by extreme wind events during July and August, 2011
Authors: Clark, Marv
Product ID: FPIPRODUCT-1-8778
Date: March 2012
Format: pdf
Document type: FPInnovations research report
If you can't access the last report, contact me and I'll see if I can.
Employees from the Belarusian State Technological University (Minsk, Belarus) performed research on the assessment of economic losses in forestry as a result of windfalls. In addition, they developed a refined methodology for estimating economic losses and costs in forestry, which are the result of natural disasters.
Chapter 9 of The Economics of Forest Disturbances: Wildfires, Storms, and Invasive Species which is aptly titled Timber Salvage Economics should be right up your alley
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.642.6914&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Thank you very much,everyone! Indeed very helpful links and publications!
Dear Daniel Kraus,
The importance of this type of analysis is growing due to the increasingly frequent climatic cataclysms. The costs of this type of processes may vary considerably depending on the type of risk of climatic disasters, applied technology, economy, climate zone, raw material costs, market prices of specific wood species obtained from forested areas, rehabilitation costs degraded by civilization and after climatic disaster of forest area and afforestation determined tree species, etc. It is important to develop a universal model for estimating this kind of costs, ie to build a multi-factor model, taking into account various factors including changes in the type of risk of climate disasters, applied technology, economy, climate zone, raw material costs, market prices of specific species wood obtained from forested land, costs of reclamation degraded by civilization and after a climate disaster of forest area and afforestation with specific tree species, etc.
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