Forest resources of the United States, 1992

Powell, Douglas S.; Faulkner, Joanne L.; Darr, David R.; Zhu, Zhiliang; MacCleery, Douglas W.

doi:10.2737/rm-gtr-234

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“…It represents the potential of softwood products (including lumber) that can be produced from the state. The data for this variable are from Powell et al (1994) and Smith et al (2001). As the 2001 data for this variable are not available, we used the latest data available (1997) data in our analysis.…”

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From Senators to the President: Solve the lumber problem or else

Zhang

Laband

2005

Public Choice

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We use key events associated in the two decade-long U.S.–Canada softwood lumber trade dispute to present the dynamic relationship between U.S. Congress and the Administration in the formation of international trade policy. We find that the executive branch of the U.S. government responded quickly to several letters from a group of U.S. Senators demanding a solution to the “lumber problem.” A roll call analysis is used to identify factors influencing Senators’ willingness to sign these letters and pressure the President on behalf of the U.S. lumber industry. The results show that the economic importance of the lumber industry in a Senator’s home state is positively correlated with signatory on these letters and that the presence of a large housing industry in a state makes a Senator less likely to sign these letters. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005U.S.–Canada softwood lumber dispute, lumber industry, special interest theory, public choice, logrolling,

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From Senators to the President: Solve the lumber problem or else

Zhang

Laband

2005

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“…Processes considered during use are decomposition, replacement of structures, and recovery and recycling of disposed paper and wood into new products. The data come from Oregon and Washington, which have produced approximately 20% of the forest products in the United States for the last half century (Powell et al, 1993).…”

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Modeling carbon stores in Oregon and Washington forest products: 1900?1992

Harmon

Ferrell

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Climatic Change

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A new model, FORPROD, for estimating the carbon stored in forest products, considers both the manufacture of the raw logs into products and the fate of the products during use and disposal. Data for historical patterns of harvest, manufacturing efficiencies, and product use and disposal were used for estimating the accumulation of carbon in Oregon and Washington forest products from 1900 to 1992. Pools examined were long-and short-term structures, paper supplies, mulch, open dumps, and landfills. The analysis indicated that of the 1,692 Tg of carbon harvested during the selected period, only 396 Tg, or 23%, is currently stored. Long-term structures and landfills contain the largest fraction of that store, holding 74% and 20%, respectively. Landfills currently have the highest rates of accumulation, but total landfill stores are relatively low because they have been used only in the last 40 years. Most carbon release has occurred during manufacturing, 45% to 60% lost to the atmosphere, depending upon the year. Sensitivity analyses of the effects of recycling, landfill decomposition, and replacement rates of long-term structures indicate that changing these parameters by a factor of two changes the estimated fraction of total carbon stored less than 2%.

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“…Since the age structure and growth rates of forest populations are known or can be inventoried (Powell et al, 1993), it may be possible to assess the timing and level of susceptibility of forest populations to dieback, now and over the next century. To date, this may not have been feasible either because of the lack of the essential inforination on forest dieback, a less than adequate understanding of key causal linkages, or the lack of conviction that prediction was possible.…”

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“…The history of forest use, of management practices, and of subsequent regeneration of tree population cohorts could be reconstructed to determine what influence land use has had on the synchronization and timing of dieback episodes. Empirical data on forest maturation could be examined, for example through the use of tree diameter and age structure in forest inventory assessments (Powell et al, 1993). The objective would be to test the hypothesis that forest dieback is preconditioned by lk)rest maturity and occurs infrequently in young populations.…”

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Principal forest dieback episodes in Northern Hardwoods: Development of numeric indices of areal extent and severity

Auclair

Eglinton

1997

Water Air Soil Pollut

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Abstract. The incidence of forest dieback in the Northern Hardwoods biome of Canada and the United States was determined for period from 1910 to 1990. Information from annual forest service pathology inventories in the two countries and other published literature was coded to estimate yearly the severity and areal extent of dieback on white/yellow birch and sugar maple flom 1910 to 1990. Principal dieback episodes occurred as distinct waves coincident with maturation of the forest population in each of six regions. These episodes endured an average of 11 years. It is hypothesized that, once forest populations are mature, they are susceptible to extreme stresses such as freezing and drought which serve to synchronize the onset and subsidence of major dieback episodes.

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Forest resources of the United States, 1992

Cited by 68 publications

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From Senators to the President: Solve the lumber problem or else

From Senators to the President: Solve the lumber problem or else

Modeling carbon stores in Oregon and Washington forest products: 1900?1992

Principal forest dieback episodes in Northern Hardwoods: Development of numeric indices of areal extent and severity

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