The economic feasibility of commercial thinning in second growth forests on the British Columbia coast

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The economic feasibility of commercial thinning in second growth forests on the British Columbia coast Dehouwer, Jonathan

Abstract

This report is a detailed analysis of commercial thinning in second growth forests on the British Columbia coast. It provides insight into the possibility of a coastal forest products company, Western Forest Products, located in Gold River, British Columbia, to implement a commercial thinning treatment. Data from existing stands was inputted into TIPSY 4.2 to run a series of scenarios to attempt to clarify economic viability based on a series of input variables. It was found that given the inputted variables, commercial thinning is at this time not economically viable. Although, there is potential for future uses of a commercial thinning program, and is briefly evaluated throughout the report. The details in the methods section of this report would help allow someone who is interested in running TIPSY to further analyze this topic to easily set up comparable runs with their own input variables.

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Title	The economic feasibility of commercial thinning in second growth forests on the British Columbia coast
Creator	Dehouwer, Jonathan
Date Issued	2012
Description	This report is a detailed analysis of commercial thinning in second growth forests on the British Columbia coast. It provides insight into the possibility of a coastal forest products company, Western Forest Products, located in Gold River, British Columbia, to implement a commercial thinning treatment. Data from existing stands was inputted into TIPSY 4.2 to run a series of scenarios to attempt to clarify economic viability based on a series of input variables. It was found that given the inputted variables, commercial thinning is at this time not economically viable. Although, there is potential for future uses of a commercial thinning program, and is briefly evaluated throughout the report. The details in the methods section of this report would help allow someone who is interested in running TIPSY to further analyze this topic to easily set up comparable runs with their own input variables.
Subject	Commercial thinning; TIPSY; Ground-based; Legislation; Western Forest Products; Second growth; Thinning
Genre	Graduating Project
Type	Text
Language	eng
Series	University of British Columbia. FRST 497
Date Available	2012-07-17
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0075550
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42732
Affiliation	Forestry, Faculty of
Campus	UBCV
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Undergraduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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