Forest thinnings for integrated lumber and paper production

Junyong Zhu; Charles Scott; Roland L. Gleisner; Doreen Mann; David W. Vahey; Dennis Dykstra; G.H. Quinn; L.L. Edwards

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Forest thinnings for integrated lumber and paper production

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Authors:

Junyong Zhu, Charles Scott, Roland L. Gleisner, Doreen Mann, David W. Vahey, Dennis Dykstra, G.H. Quinn, L.L. Edwards

Year:

2007

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Forest Products Laboratory

Source:

Forest products journal. Vol. 57, no. 11 (Nov. 2007): p. 8-13

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Abstract

Integrated lumber and paper productions using forest thinning materials from U.S. national forests can significantly reduce the cost of prescriptive thinning operations. Many of the trees removed during forest thinnings are in small-diameter classes (diameter at breast height

Keywords

Forest thinning, Lumber, testing, pulping, wood density, tracheary cells, lodgepole pine, pulpwood, wood fibers, tracheids, small-diameter timber, small timbers, utilization, suppressed growth, thinnings, pulp and paper processes, thermomechanical pulping, smallwood

Citation

Zhu, J.Y.; Scott, C.T.; Gleisner, R.; Mann, D.; Vahey, D.W.; Dykstra, D.P.; Quinn, G.H.; Edwards, L.L. 2007. Forest thinnings for integrated lumber and paper production. Forest products journal. Vol. 57, no. 11 (Nov. 2007) : p. 8-13