New York State Climate Impacts Assessment Chapter 05: Ecosystems

SS Hess, DA Burns, FG Boudinot, C Brown‐Lima… - 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The people of New York have long benefited from the state's diversity of
ecosystems, which range from coastal shorelines and wetlands to extensive forests and …

Fossil-fuel consumption and CO2eq emissions of cut-to-length industrial roundwood logging operations in Finland

K Kärhä, H Haavikko, H Kääriäinen, T Palander… - European Journal of …, 2023‏ - Springer
The aim of this study was to measure and model the fuel consumption of cut-to-length (CTL)
logging machinery in cutting and forwarding under Nordic harvesting conditions, and to …

Skid trail network visualizer: A computational tool to generate skid trails created by ground-based timber harvesting machines and facilitate soil disturbance monitoring

M Contreras, C Parra, C Cárdenas, C Hermosilla… - … and Electronics in …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
A computational tool was developed to reconstruct skid trail networks based on global
positioning receivers mounted on ground-based harvesting machines and estimate the …

Impact of chainsaw power on fuel and oil consumption

S Antonić, M Danilović, D Stojnić, S Dražić - Sustainability, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
This research was carried out in a selection stand of beech and fir, where logging was
performed with chainsaws of different powers. Two chainsaws of 3.9 kW were used for work …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon footprint of the predominant mechanized timber harvesting methods in the Northeastern US

A Alex, AR Kizha, AK George, S Bick, J Wang… - Cleaner and Circular …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Estimating carbon footprint of forest operations is essential to budget the environmental
impacts of the industry. The study objectives were to a) assess the carbon footprint of whole …

Timber harvesting economics in early commercial thinning and group selection prescriptions

A Alex, A Raj Kizha, AK George, LT Louis… - Croatian Journal of …, 2024‏ - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Forest management decisions that consider both short-and long-term objectives are
becoming more challenging and costly, due to market uncertainty, labor shortages, and the …

The discount rate differential required for harvesting-by-dice-rolling to outperform optimal rotation planning

JD Foppert - Forest Policy and Economics, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Although the cost of capital has enormous bearing on the financial performance of forestry
investment projects, the dynamics of this factor of production are under-theorized in modern …

When economically optimal is ecologically complicated: modeling tree-by-tree cutting decisions to maximize financial returns from northern hardwood stands

JD Foppert, NF Maker - Forestry: An International Journal of …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
This study challenges a long-standing and often uncontested assertion in the forestry
discourse that maximizing financial returns always requires ecologically simplified stands …

[HTML][HTML] Production economics and carbon footprint of an integrated timber harvesting operation in the Northeastern US

A Alex, AR Kizha, LT Louis, AK George - Energy Nexus, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Woody biomass has tremendous potential to reduce the reliance on non-renewable energy,
however, the high cost, uncertain harvesting carbon footprint, and policies may hinder it from …

Development of activity recognition models for mechanical fuel treatments using consumer-grade GNSS-RF devices and lidar

RM Becker, RF Keefe - Forestry: An International Journal of …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Mobile technologies are rapidly advancing the field of forest operations and providing
opportunities to quantify management tasks in new ways through increased digitalization …