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Timber management in a Time of Species Conservation

Roland H. Lamberson

Mathematics Department
Humboldt State University
Arcata, CA 95521

Kevin S. Mckelvey

U.S.D.A. Forest Service
Redwood Sciences Laboratory
1700 Bayview Drive, Arcata CA 95521

Abstract:

In this paper we propose a timber management scheme which mimics the patchy stand structure of fire climax forest and has the desirable characterisics of retaining stands of trees of very old ages. We go on to do a preliminary economic analysis and determine that if management is taking place under the restriction that a certain fraction of the forest must be of at least some given age then this approach may be far superior to standard single age rotation schemes.

Natural Resource Modeling Volume 8, Number 1, Winter 1994

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