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Summary
Summary
Covers the regulation, harvest scheduling and planning techniques that are central to modern forest management. Traditional forest regulation is covered in detail, with assessments of such classical techniques as area and volume control as well as the neoclassical concepts of area-volume check and combined area and volume control. The sections on harvest scheduling examine mathematical programming models and solution techniques and their applications in scheduling problems; techniques using economic considerations, sloping demands and binary search are also discussed. There is a section on planning that includes a look at multiple objective techniques and FORPLAN, the USDA-Forest Service system for forest-wide planning. In addition, it contains useful information on linear programming methods and after- tax cashflow accounting.
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A forest management textbook that summarizes traditional forest management, reviews timber harvest scheduling, and details several computer-based planning techniques. The planning techniques include traditional approaches such as area control and more contemporary multiple objective approaches such as goal programming. The book is well referenced, and contains many figures and tables that display relevant computer output from case studies. The book is intended for senior and graduate-level forestry students with some background in algebra, calculus, forest management, and computer applications, and would also serve as a basic reference for practitioners working with timber harvest scheduling. -F. E. Boteler, State of North Carolina, Division of Parks & Recreation
Table of Contents
| Silvicultural Management Systems |
| Area Control |
| Area Control Mathematical Programming |
| Volume Control |
| Neoclassical Methods |
| Mathematical Programming: Model I |
| Mathematical Programming: Model II |
| Economic Considerations |
| Sloping Demand |
| Binary Search |
| Multiple Objective Programming |
| Forplan |
| Dynamic Programming |
| Appendices |
| Index |
