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Integrated Harvest Scheduling for Non-Timber Objectives in Forest Management

This lecture covers advanced strategies in harvest scheduling using linear programming, focusing on integrating non-timber objectives such as wildlife habitat creation and stream-side management zones. Key elements include establishing minimum age classes for forest stands, setting aside wildlife openings, and balancing age-class distributions over a 40-year planning horizon. The model emphasizes financial costs and revenues of forest management activities, tailored to promote sustainable forestry while fulfilling ecological requirements. Examples illustrate how to modify constraints and target areas efficiently for optimal forest health and wildlife support.

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Integrated Harvest Scheduling for Non-Timber Objectives in Forest Management

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  1. Modeling Non-Timber Objectives in Harvest Scheduling with Linear Programming Lecture 4 (4/9/2014)

  2. Extended rotations: a minimum of 1,500ac will be required from each Site I and II to be older than 40 and 30 yrs, respectively; • Wildlife openings: set aside 500ac of wildlife openings – clearcut these in pd. 1 and maintain them for browse and forage; • Stream-side management zones: no harvests allowed in 8% of the forest (4% in each site class)

  3. Balancing the Age-class Distribution

  4. Harvest scheduling prescriptions with up to two possible harvests within a 40-year planning horizon and a minimum rotation of 20 yrs

  5. Extended Rotations Initial age-class distribution

  6. Modifying the Average Ending Age Constraint

  7. Modifying the Average Ending Age Constraint (continued)

  8. Implementing Wildlife Openings • Forest management activity scheduling model; • Creating 500 acres of wildlife browse habitat; • The openings are cleared in Pd. 1 and will be maintained over time by planting browse species at a cost of $10/ac/yr

  9. Defining the wildlife opening variables: Wsa= the number of acres from site class s, initial age class a assigned to be cleared in pd. 1 and maintained as wildlife openings for the remainder of the planning horizon • Modifying the Area Constraints Note: wildlife openings as the ninth prescription

  10. 3. Specifying the target area for wildlife openings

  11. Modifying the objective function (accounting for the costs and revenues that are associated with the new activities)

  12. 5. The objective function coefficients

  13. Example Objective Function Coefficient Calculation Economic data Yield

  14. Modifying the harvest accounting constraints • Average ending age constraints The wildlife opening variables should be excluded from these constraints

  15. Implementing Stream-side Management Zones (SMZs) • It is assumed that the area assigned to SMZs has already been calculated, and • 8% of each analysis area will be reserved for SMZs.

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