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Book Timber Harvesting By Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowners In Western Oregon

Download or read book Timber Harvesting By Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowners In Western Oregon written by D. A. Cleaves and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Management of Non industrial Private Forest Lands

Download or read book Management of Non industrial Private Forest Lands written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oregon State University researchers conducted a survey in 1994 of non-industrial private forest (NIPF) landowners in western Oregon and western Washington. Private forests provide valuable ecological services, such as fish and wildlife habitat, and are also partially filling the gap created by recent reductions in federal timber harvest in the region. The purpose of the study was to assess demographic characteristics, timber management practices, harvest decisions, attitudes toward government regulation, and the use of government assistance by NIPF landowners in western Oregon and western Washington. NIPF owners are a very heterogenous class with diverse objectives, ranging from timber production to the enjoyment of owning "green space". Most of the owners surveyed had harvested timber from their land and had used a variety of methods, including clearcuts (28%) and thinnings and other partial cuts (60%). A majority (68%) said they would alter the amount and timing of their harvest if it were necessary to maintain a healthy ecosystem. However, most owners would not be willing to give up their right to harvest timber altogether, even if offered a tax incentive. Many of the results differed between owners of large acreages and owners of small acreages.

Book Timber Harvesting and Marketing Practices on NIPF Lands in Western Oregon

Download or read book Timber Harvesting and Marketing Practices on NIPF Lands in Western Oregon written by Max Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred and fifty-four nonindustrial private forest landowners in western Oregon were surveyed to develop baseline information about harvesting practices and to examine the influence of marketing procedures on delivered log prices. Most respondents harvested to meet income or silvicultural objectives. Harvests on ownerships less than 50 acres in size accounted for over one third of the harvest volume. The majority of harvests were partial cuts; salvage harvests comprised about 20 percent of the sales. Most respondents managed their own sales or relied on the logger or timber buyer. Consultants managed only six percent of the sales. Respondents who left the sale details to the logger were significantly less satisfied with the sale results and earned lower prices than other landowners. A regression analysis was performed to evaluate the relationships between sale procedures and the delivered log price. The model indicated that sale to export buyers and the number of buyers contacted were positively associated with sale price; payment of the logger on a percentage basis, lack of familiarity with price levels and trends, and buyer-initiated sales were negatively associated with the sales price. Analysis of the relationships between ownership characteristics and sale procedures indicated that experienced landowners with larger holdings were better timber marketers by normative standards.

Book Projections of Timber Harvest in Western Oregon and Washington by County Owner Forest Type and Age Class

Download or read book Projections of Timber Harvest in Western Oregon and Washington by County Owner Forest Type and Age Class written by Xiaoping Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific Northwest forest resource is highly dynamic. Expected changes over the next 50 years will greatly challenge some current perceptions of resource managers and various stakeholders. This report describes the current and expected future timberland conditions of western Oregon and Washington and presents the results at the county level. About 50 percent of the timber removals in this region will come from 10 west-side counties, and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) will remain the major species removed. Forest industry will account for 50 percent of the total harvest in the Pacific Northwest West. Some inferences about the attributes of future timber and its utilization will be drawn from the projections at the county level over the next half century.

Book Private Forestry in Western Oregon

Download or read book Private Forestry in Western Oregon written by Gary Lettman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forestry Program for Oregon

Download or read book Forestry Program for Oregon written by Oregon State Board of Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Timber Harvest Projections for Private Land in Western Oregon

Download or read book Timber Harvest Projections for Private Land in Western Oregon written by Darius Mainard Adams and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this analysis, volume-flow and market-based models of the western Oregon timber sector are developed. The volume-flow model finds the maximum, long-term, even-flow level of cut for each ownership (industry and non-industrial private forest). The market model simulates the interaction of log demand and timber owner supply to find the market balancing harvest quantity and log price. In both models, owner decisions on the intensity of timber management (silviculture) are made within the models consistent with owner objectives (volume or wealth maximization). Model projections suggest that western Oregon forest industry owners could sustain cut at recent (1995-1999) levels, stemming the 40-yr declining trend in their harvest. Nonindustrial private forest owners could raise harvests to near historical peak levels. These harvests could be maintained over the next five decades with no reduction in the growing stock inventory. Management would continue to shift toward the more intensive forms on both ownerships. The average age of the inventory would decline over the projection. Simulated riparian protection policies lower harvest roughly in proportion to the land base reduction and raise log prices. A policy to increase the minimum age of clearcut harvests would lead to large near-term reductions in industrial harvest but less marked reductions on NIPF lands. Prices would rise sharply in the near term. Over the longer term, the policy would act to expand inventory, raising harvest, and to depress prices.

Book Understanding Key Issues of Sustainable Wood Production in the Pacific Northwest

Download or read book Understanding Key Issues of Sustainable Wood Production in the Pacific Northwest written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers involved with the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station Sustainable Wood Production Initiative have outlined some of the barriers and opportunities for sustainable wood production in the region. Sustainable wood production is defined as the capacity of forests to produce wood, products, and services on a long-term basis and in the context of human activity and use. The collective findings of these papers suggest that in the future, the regions wood supply will primarily come from private land, and the barriers and opportunities related to sustainable wood production will have more to do with future markets, harvest potential, land use changes, and sustainable forestry options than with traditional sustained yield outputs. Private lands in the PNW should be able to sustain recent historical harvest levels over the next 50 years, but regional changes in sawmilling capacity and uncertain market conditions may affect wood production in the region. Public perceptions of forestry, land use changes, and alternative forestry options are also discussed. These papers present preliminary findings and proposals for future work designed to help us understand the key issues related to sustainable wood production.

Book Management Marketing and Harvesting of Oregon s Forests

Download or read book Management Marketing and Harvesting of Oregon s Forests written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forest Harvest Patterns on Private Land in Western Oregon from 1972 to 2002

Download or read book Forest Harvest Patterns on Private Land in Western Oregon from 1972 to 2002 written by Lisa R. VanNatta and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project examined the harvest patterns found on private forestland in western Oregon (46000 1cm2) between 1972 and 2002. The research addressed hypotheses concerning the behaviors of different classes of owners as defined by total amount of forestland owned. Existing forest stand disturbance data and ownership data were combined using GIS and the Fragstats program to determine the numbers of harvest patches and percentage of harvest in 250 individual forested parcels ranging from 40 to 110000 km2, for each of seven 3 to 6 year time intervals in the study period. Trends over time and spatial patterns of harvest by owner were assessed using maps and graphs. Private industrial forest owners as a group harvested at more rapid rate and created more patches than private non-industrial forest owners in western Oregon over the period 1972-2002. Private industrial owners did not differ in the numbers of patches created or the rates of harvest over the entire study period of 1972 to 2002, but small private industrial owners (less than 10,000 hectares), harvested at a significantly more rapid rate than other private industrial classes during the 1988 to 1991 time period. The number of patches created from 1972 to 2002 was significantly positively related to the area of the parcel but not related to the percentage of the parcel that was harvested from 1972 to 2002. Forest harvest rates increased when timber prices increased in the late 1980s, but did not respond to even higher timber prices in the early 1990s. Controlling for forest owner type and size, forest harvest on private lands was significantly lower and fewer patches were created in the Klamath Mountains province compared to the Oregon Coast Range and the western Cascades. Parcels in the margin of the Willamette Valley were 1.58 times more likely than other portions of western Oregon to have been harvested at rates exceeding 10% per year over some portion of the study period. These results generally indicate that private industrial owners have a range of behaviors that are partially explained by owner objectives (industrial vs. non-industrial) and size of landholdings. Based on these findings, predictions about future landscape patterns should take into account differences in objectives within the private industrial class of landowners. In particular, in western Oregon small private forest owners were quite sensitive to timber prices and uncertainty in public forest management policy in the late 1980s, whereas other private industry owners maintained fairly steady rates of harvest, and most private non-industrial owners refrained from harvest, over the 1972-2002 period.

Book Comparison of Timber Tax Options Available to Western Oregon Small Nonindustrial Private Forest Land Owners

Download or read book Comparison of Timber Tax Options Available to Western Oregon Small Nonindustrial Private Forest Land Owners written by T. Lincoln Cannon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most forests and timber in Western Oregon are taxed under the Western Oregon Forest Land and Severance Tax (WOST), a system which is accepted as one that promotes "correct" economic rotation lengths. This study was motivated by the observation that an optional tax with the same stated purpose - the Western Oregon Small Tract Optional Tax (WOSTOT) - continued to coexist for the benefit of small nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) land owners. Inferring that some small NIPF land owners must be receiving beneficial tax treatment under WOSTOT, the study sets out to examine and compare the tax effects of WOST and WOSTOT on forest management, productivity, land-uses, and tax burdens on a variety of different sites under different sets of assumptions. The specific objectives of the study are fourfold. First, compare WOSTOT and WOST in terms of their common objective of fostering timber production. Second, compare the equitability of the two tax systems. Third, compare the neutrality of the two tax systems with respect to land use? Fourth, identify which NIPF landowners are likely to use WOSTOT rather than WOST, and why? First, a historical review of timber taxes in Western Oregon is conducted to provide some perspective and understanding regarding the existing NIPF timber tax systems. Next, the forest taxation literature is examined for insights into how others have dealt with similar questions. A methodology utilizing the Stand Optimization System (SOS), a dynamic programming optimization model, is used to examine if and how timber taxes affect: (1) timber production, including the timing and intensity of thinnings and final harvest rotation age, as well as merchantable mean annual increment (MAI); and (2) Soil Expectation Values (SEV5) and site burdens. The results of the simulations show that there are no timber production or land-use impacts attributable to either timber tax system. It was found, however, that the two tax systems were not always equitable, i.e., certain NIPF landowners were likely to find WOSTOT provided preferential tax treatment (higher SEVs) when compared to WOST. Taxpayers most likely to benefit under the WOSTOT system included those; (1) in high WOST land tax zones, (2) with lower site lands, and (3) with low discount rates. NIPF land ownerships are examined by county and tax type to determine if the simulation results help explain actual behavior of tax-paying NIPF land owners. Current NIPF ownership patterns tended to be consistent with the model results. It appears that WOSTOT is most used in those counties with highest WOST land values. Finally, other WOST and WOSTOT related issues are discussed, first from the perspective of NIPF land owners, and then from a public policy perspective.

Book Legacy and Promise

Download or read book Legacy and Promise written by John H. Beuter and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: