Timber Management: A Quantitative Approach / Edition 1

by Jerome L. Clutter

Overview

Textbook for two-semester undergraduate and graduate level courses in forest management. Discusses quantitative tools for effective timber enterprise management including computer processing, mathematical and statistical models, and financial criteria optimization. Presents thorough mathematical and statistical treatment of mensuration with unique coverage of volume equations, site index, and growth and yield. Contains updated report of timber taxation, risk evaluation, and inflation. Provides specific mensurational models from current forestry literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780894647475
Publisher:	Krieger Publishing Company
Publication date:	07/01/1992
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

GROWTH AND YIELD PREDICTION.

Estimating the Volumes and Weights of Individual Trees.

Evaluating Site Quality.

Growing Stock and Stand Density.

Predicting Growth and Yield.

FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF TIMBER MANAGEMENT.

Forest Finance.

Taxes and Risk in the Evaluation of Forest Investments.

TIMBER MANAGEMENT PLANNING.

Timber Management - Some Introductory Comments.

Stand-Level Management Planning.

Forest-Level Management Planning: Basic Concepts.

Forest-Level Management Planning: Current Techniques.

Appendices.

Index.