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ANNOTATION: These case studies show that all aspects of woody biomass removals, from markets to mechanization, are evolving. This report identifies the building blocks for successful biomass projects-including public involvement, partnerships with…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evans
ANNOTATION: Woody biomass-usually logging slash, tops and limbs, or trees that cannot be sold as timber-is the lowest valued material removed from the forest and presents economic and logistical challenges. This report brings together 45 case studies of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergman, Zerbe
ANNOTATION: This paper explains and describes the concepts of wood energy on a residential, commercial, and industrial scale in the United States so that the Forest Service can help meet the demands of communities involved in the forest-products industry…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arriagada, Cubbage, Abt, Huggett
The costs for harvesting timber for forest fire fuel reduction purposes were estimated for 12 states in the West. The Fuel Reduction Cost Simulator (FRCS) was used to estimate the costs for forest thinning with six harvesting methods, based on…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hurteau, Koch, Hungate
ANNOTATION: This paper looks into the carbon sequestering abilities of forests and finds that policies currently in place promote avoidable carbon releases and discourage actions that would actually increase long-term carbon storage. When stand-replacing…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Blackard, Finco, Helmer, Holden, Hoppus, Jacobs, Lister, Moisen, Nelson, Riemann, Ruefenacht, Salajanu, Weyermann, Winterberger, Brandeis, Czaplewski, McRoberts, Patterson, Tycio
Annotation: This paper presents a spatially explicit dataset of aboveground live forest biomass made from ground measured inventory plots for the conterminous U.S., Alaska and Puerto Rico. The plot data are from the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mitchell, Gallagher
ANNOTATION: This time and motion study determines the productivity and costs of an in-woods chipping operation to create biomass fuel from processing whole small-diameter trees. It was found that the cost of biomass chipping was comparable to other…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mitchell, Rummer
ANNOTATION: This project proposed removing small diameter stems and unmerchantable woody material from National Forest lands and delivering it to a coal-fired power plant in Alabama for energy conversion. The biomass fuel to be created in this project…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hunter, Shepperd, Lentile, Lundquist, Andreu, Butler, Smith
ANNOTATION: This paper presents recommendations for fuels treatments in ponderosa pine forests in the Southwest, Colorado Front Range, and Black Hills of South Dakota stemming from a synthesis of existing knowledge in the peer-reviewed literature and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: Forest Resources Association partnered with Langdale Industries of Valdosta, Georgia to evaluate the performance of a tree-length Southern pine operation that added a small Conehead 570 chipper to chip material otherwise left in the woods. Two…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: Forest Resources Association partnered with Langdale Industries of Valdosta, Georgia to evaluate the performance of a tree-length Southern pine operation that added a small Conehead 565 chipper to chip material otherwise left in the woods.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wynsma, Aubuchon, Len, Daugherty, Gee
ANNOTATION: This paper is intended to be a reference guide to local land managers regarding locating and collaborating with biomass stakeholders. Give suggestions on how to use current National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) planning tools to start up…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grushecky, Wang, McGill
ANNOTATION: The increased utilization of logging residues has received considerable attention as a potential source of renewable biomass and as a raw material for engineered and conventional wood products. We investigated the relationship between logging…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gan, Smith
ANNOTATION: This study evaluated the co-benefits associated with the utilization of logging residues for electricity production in East Texas, USA. The benefits evaluated included the value of CO2 emissions displaced due to substituting logging residues…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Atkins, Rummer, Dodson, Thomas, Horcher, Messerlie, Rawlings, Haston
ANNOTATION: This study looks into increasingly severe fire seasons over the last two decades that have led policymakers to recognize the need for thinning overgrown stands of trees. Thinning presents a financial challenge and the problem is that hazardous…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gibson
ANNOTATION: This paper looks into the Healthy Forests Initiative to find the economic impacts on the timber harvesting and processing industry in the White Mountain Region of Arizona. The study's goal was to have a factual and critical baseline which…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daugherty, Fried
ANNOTATION: This study looks into landscape-scale fuel treatments for forest fire hazard reduction that can potentially produce large quantities of material suitable for biomass energy production. The analytic framework FIA BioSum addresses this situation…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klepac, Rummer, Thompson
ANNOTATION: Time and motion derived production and costs are estimated for a CTL system while implementing fuel reduction treatments in two stands on the Coconino National Forest in Arizona. Product recovery and fire behavior within each stand were also…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loeffler, Calkin, Silverstein
ANNOTATION: This report studied the feasibility of using biomass for renewable energy production as an alternative to onsite burning. Due to the relatively low value of biomass, accurate estimates of volumes and costs of collection and transport are…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johansson, Liss, Gullberg, Bjorheden
ANNOTATION: This study shows that bundles (especially if dry) are cheaper to transport than fuel chips in road transport bins. The useful cargo space is the limiting factor for trucks when transporting dry material. Transport cost decreased until the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
