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ANNOTATION: The Biomass Site Assessment Tool (BioSAT) model is used to identify the top 20 locations for 13 southern U.S. states. The trucking cost model of BioSAT is used with Timber Mart South 2009 (http://www.tmart-south.com/tmart/index.html) price…
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Means
ANNOTATION: BIOPAK is a software package that contains a plant measurement library of over 1,100 documented equations that estimate plant components, e.g. leaf mass, leaf area, stem wood mass, bark mass, fuel size classes. BIOPAK can choose equations from…
Type: Tool
ANNOTATION: The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management undertook a series of CROP pilot projects as a means of addressing the growing fuel load problem within major forest systems and the realized potential for fostering catastrophic wildfires…
Type: Project
Fried, Barbour, Fight
ANNOTATION: FIA BioSum is a concept-based methodology that generates cost estimates, identifies opportunities and evaluates the effectiveness of fuel treatments in region-wide forested landscapes. The BioSum modeling framework incorporates a…
Type: Tool
ANNOTATION: FoRTS is a spreadsheet based calculator designed to help compare alternative methods of moving biomass from the forest to a wood-using facility. It will estimate loading and hauling costs for different combinations of equipment, evaluate the…
Type: Tool
ANNOTATION: FRCS is a spreadsheet application useful for estimating the cost of forest operations undertaken to reduce forest fuel loads by cutting and removing trees for solid wood products or chips. It can also be used to estimate the cost of collecting…
Type: Tool
ANNOTATION: The HCR is engineering and financial analysis software used to evaluate stand-level financial thresholds for harvesting small diameter ponderosa pine in the Southwest United States. The HCR can help contractors and planners to identify costs…
Type: Tool
LANDFIRE, Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools, is a shared program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior, providing landscape scale geo-…
Type: Project
Ashton, McDonell, Barnes, Langholtz
ANNOTATION: This Guide is designed for use by Resource Conservation & Development and Extension professionals throughout the U.S. It also contains handouts and other resources to assist in educating respective audience. The Woody Biomass Desk Guide…
Type: Tool
ANNOTATION: This website contains information, programs and forms used in implementing forest health maintenance, restoration, and improvement projects on the 19 national forests in Oregon and Washington. The website houses many executable programs…
Type: Website
ANNOTATION: Located here are tables of heat of combustion (Btu/ovendry pound) of stems and branches of 6-inch trees from 22 hardwood species growing on southern pine sites. Heat value, or heat of combustion, which is defined as the total amount of heat…
Type: Tool
ANNOTATION: The Forest Operations Research Unit at the Southern Research Station has been studying biomass-related topics since 1977. This CD aids the reader by organizing these publications in one easy-to-use CD. Included on the CD are an executive…
Type: Website
ANNOTATION: This is an Excel spreadsheet that converts wood moisture contents from either dry basis to wet basis or wet basis to dry basis. The moisture content of biomass affects the gross weight of the material that is being handled. Green material will…
Type: Tool
ANNOTATION: The Woody Biomass Utilization Team is an interdisciplinary team that promotes and facilitates the planning and delivery of an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to the recovery and utilization of woody biomass from ecological restoration…
Type: Website
Fiedler, Piao, Robertson, Sweet
ANNOTATION: WEBOFIRE links stand inventory data and visualizations with the Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE; http://www.fs.fed.us/fmsc/fvs/description/ffe-fvs.shtml) and the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS; http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/fccs…
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