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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Timberland"”.
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Expectations of land value in rural and suburban regions
Timberland has become a new and emerging asset class among investors. Institutional investors have committed large amounts of capital through the private equity market. Timber real estate investment trusts (REITs) have also allowed smaller individual investors to participate in the ownership in …
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The impacts of federal-state death and gift taxes on private nonindustrial forest owners
… serious death tax problems. Increasing timberland values and demand for alternative land uses creates higher forest land and timber valuations. When coupled with federal and state death taxes, the estates of timber owners may experience a heavy financial burden. Many states have recently …
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Comparing linear programming and mixed integer programming formulations for forest planning on the Naval Surface Weapons Center, Dahlgren, Virginia
… maximized present net worth subject to a fixed timberland base, an ending inventory requirement, workload control restrictions, and harvest volume control restrictions. The linear programming-based models which incorporated spatial data analysis capabilities were solved using mixed-integer …
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The applications of autonomous systems to forestry management
Public and private timberland owners continually search for new, cost effective methods to monitor and nurture their timber stand investments. Common management tasks include monitoring tree growth and tree health, estimating timber value and preventing wildfire. Many of these tasks are both manual …
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Not All Biomass is Created Equal: An Assessment of Social and Biophysical Factors Constraining Wood Availability in Virginia
… 2017, 10 – 21 percent of total wood volume on timberland will be available for harvesting.
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The distribution and objectives of local forestry-related ordinances in the United States
… in areas containing relatively little timberland and low levels of forest activity. In addition, the common requirements of forest ordinances are not viewed as being overly burdensome by loggers and pulpwood operators. For these reasons, local forest laws may impose less of a burden …
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Silvicultural Methods for Improving Hardwood Management on Non-Industrial Private Forest land in Virginia
… NIPF landowners because the 350 million acres of timberland they own will play a large part in the future of the United States timber supply (Haynes 2002).
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Refinement of Automated Forest Area Estimation via Iterative Guided Spectral Class Rejection
… requirement of less than 3% per million acres timberland. There were no consistently significant filtering effects at the 95% level; however, the 3x3 majority filter significantly improved the accuracy of the most fragmented image and did not decrease the accuracy of the other images. Overall …
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Sediment Delivery Ratios and Areas of Forest Operational Features by Physiographic Groupings in the Southeastern U.S.
… wood products and represent 40% of all U.S. timberland, thus emphasizing the importance of Southeast in support of the United States' role as the world's largest timber producer. Producing such quantities of timber requires a substantial areas of forest harvest operations, which have the …
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Potential effects of technical assistance foresters on pine planting on non-industrial private forestland in the South
… ownerships include 75 percent of the commercial timberland in the South, and account for 64 percent of the timber volume harvested in the region annually. Long-term sustained yield of softwood timber volumes from NIPFs depends on successful reforestation of harvested pine stands and afforestation …
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SOCIAL VALUES FOR ATTRIBUTES AT RISK FROM WILDFIRE IN NORTHWEST MONTANA
… smoky days, $13.39 for a 1,000 acre reduction of timberland burned by wildfire, and $4.52 for a 1 percentage point reduction in the number of large (greater than 5,000 acres) fires that burn on the landscape. Responses to the questionnaire also revealed that 74.3% of respondents believe that it is …
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SOCIAL VALUES FOR ATTRIBUTES AT RISK FROM WILDFIRE IN NORTHWEST MONTANA
… smoky days, $13.39 for a 1,000 acre reduction of timberland burned by wildfire, and $4.52 for a 1 percentage point reduction in the number of large (greater than 5,000 acres) fires that burn on the landscape. Responses to the questionnaire also revealed that 74.3% of respondents believe that it is …
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Recreation Capital: Natural Resources, Amenity Development, and Outdoor Recreation in Bend, Oregon
… one firm, Brooks Scanlon, converted some of its timberlands to a golf resort, capitalizing on the recreational amenities offered by its former timberland and setting the standard for further amenity development in Central Oregon. Chapter five examines the political debate about how to manage land …
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The Impact of Federal and State Income Taxes on Forest Landowners: An Examination of Tax Liabilities and Tax Planning
Federal and state income tax laws pertaining to forest landowners are examined. Income tax liabilities are calculated for hypothetical forest landowners in two income brackets across the 41 states in the U.S. which impose a comprehensive income tax. The income tax liability is calculated to …