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Documents, Data, and Code. The NCX Methodology For Improved Forest Management (IFM) Through Short-Term Harvest Deferral.
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Public Comment: 130 (Daniel H. Hudnut) #130

Closed ncx-gitbot closed 1 year ago

ncx-gitbot commented 1 year ago

Commenter Organization: Wagner Forest Management, Ltd.

Commenter: Daniel H. Hudnut

2021 Deferred Harvest Methodology Section: 11

Comment: "A baseline common practice harvest model should be applied to each individual half-hectate(or smaller unit) of each participating property." An acre is not an economical harvest unit, and the interplay of neighboring or nearby acres will influence whether a particular acre can be harvested. This spatial element appears to be wholly absent from the model, as does a cumulative consideration of whether the overall harvest predicted would actually meet market expectations for harvest volume and value, or yield positive stumpage returns following road building, etc.

Proposed Change: Explain how spatial considerations should be incorporated in some meaningful way (or discuss convincingly why they should not be).

ncx-gitbot commented 1 year ago

NCX response: Thank you for your comment. We are working to continually improve our modeling to include on property and across property dynamics.