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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: 150 (Anonymous) #150

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ncx-gitbot commented 1 year ago

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Commenter: Anonymous

2021 Deferred Harvest Methodology Section: 11.2

Comment: Using Prestemon & Wear in this circumstance is highly inappropriate. It's a paper from 2000 based on pricing and volumes from the early 90s, and it assumes that any harvest is a clearcut. Pine plantations in the Southeast are currently on generation 5 or 6 of improved pines-so current volume are much higher- and there are so many new factors in price like the pellet market and new OSB plants. The authors never ask landowners what they think about the non-timber value of their forest, and the authors even say this is useful for the South. The authors also state that any harvest will be a clearcut, which is not the case outside of plantations. This paper shouldn't used for what it's being used for. There are a lot of newer articles about timber markets, volumes, and non-timber value of forests to landowners that are regional specific.

Proposed Change: Use more and different sources

ncx-gitbot commented 1 year ago

NCX response: Our baseline modeling used the Prestemon and Wear publication cited as a foundation, but extends the concepts of that work to other geographies to allow a range of harvesting probabilities (0 to 1) as well as removal rates.