There’s more to harvesting than green timber and sawlogs: Engineering forest operations for 21st-century forest management

Andrea Watts; Nathaniel Anderson; Woodam (Woody) Chung; John S. Hogland; Robert Keefe; Ryer Becker; John Twitchell

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There’s more to harvesting than green timber and sawlogs: Engineering forest operations for 21st-century forest management

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Authors:

Andrea Watts, Nathaniel Anderson, Woodam (Woody) Chung, John S. Hogland, Robert Keefe, Ryer Becker, John Twitchell

Year:

2022

Type:

Science Bulletins and Newsletters

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Science You Can Use Bulletin, Issue 53. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 11 p.

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Abstract

For most of the 20th century, a primary objective of forest operations on federal public lands was supplying green timber to the forest products industry for manufacturing lumber and other forest products. Harvest operations and supply chain logistics were designed to handle this green timber with methods that maximized both efficiency and productivity with an eye on revenues.

Keywords

Science You Can Use, SYCU, harvesting, green timber, sawlogs, forest management

Citation

Watts, Andrea; Anderson, Nathaniel (Nate); Chung, Woodam (Woody); Hogland, John; Keefe, Robert; Becker, Ryer; Twitchell, John. 2022. There’s more to harvesting than green timber and sawlogs: Engineering forest operations for 21st-century forest management. Science You Can Use Bulletin, Issue 53. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 11 p.