Evaluating forest product potential as part of planning ecological restoration treatments on forested landscapes |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Director and Rangeland Extension Specialist, Sierra Foothills Research and Extension Center, University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, Browns Valley, CA 95918, USA.;2. Rangeland Ecologist USDA-NRCS Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center, Burns, OR 97720, USA.;3. Research Leader, USDA-NRCS Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center, Burns, OR 97720, USA.;1. Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, C2, Piso 5, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal;2. Departamento de Biologia e CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal;3. Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM), Valencia, Spain, Dep. Ecologia, Universidad de Alicante, Spain;4. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Amman, Jordan, Dipartimento di Agraria and Desertification Research Centre (NRD), University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy;5. Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l''analisi dell''economia agraria, Agrobiology and Pedology Research Centre, Firenze, Italy;6. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Forestry and Natural Environment, Laboratory of Range Science (236), 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece;7. Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, 193 Pantazidou str., 68200 Orestiada, Greece;8. Department of Environmental Engineering Technology, Palestine Polytechnic University, Palestine;9. Institut für Umweltplanung, Department of Environmental Planning, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Herrenhaeuser Strasse 2, 30419 Hannover, Germany;10. Department of Architecture and Landscape, University of Greenwich, Park Row London, SE10 9LS, United Kingdom;1. Fire Ecologist, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office, Portland, OR 97204, USA.;2. Plant and Fire Ecologist Emeritus, Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Station, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.;3. Restoration Ecologist, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.;4. Research Ecologist (retired), US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR 97204, USA.;5. Bioclimatologist (retired), US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. |
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| Abstract: | As landscape scale assessments and modeling become a more common method for evaluating alternatives in integrated resource management, new techniques are needed to display and evaluate outcomes for large numbers of stands over long periods. In this proof of concept, we evaluate the potential to provide financial support for silvicultural treatments by selling timber harvested during treatments designed to achieve non-timber objectives such as fire hazard reduction or wildlife habitat improvement. We introduce the concept of dimensionless indices to describe and compare physical accessibility, harvest and hauling costs, and potential revenue from wood products. These indices are combined into a composite utilization index that portrays the relative potential of each polygon for wood utilization and associated cost offsets from integrated resource management activities. To illustrate these concepts, we simulate vegetation dynamics, management interventions, and natural disturbances over a 100-year period and summarize results into both tabular outputs and maps for a 178,000 ha landscape with more than 50,000 stands. |
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