This report of the Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) for 2019 presents the findings of a 100% sample of pulpmills that used roundwood or wood residues from the 13 Southern States. Of the 76 mills surveyed, 59 responded. For the 17 mills that did not respond, previous survey data and other sources of...

Woodworkers have used spalted wood (wood decayed and coloured by fungi) for marquetry and intarsia for over 500 years. However despite the long history and ubiquitous nature of the material, the use has never been 'mainstream,' and little is known about the people who use it and how they value the...

This paper focuses on designing a methodological workflow to fill a knowledge gap for determining the cost of capital for commercial forestry projects. Upon reviewing the literature, a method to determine the cost of capital for profit-oriented forestry seems to be lacking. Accordingly, we selected ...

As the largest consumer of petroleum and second highest producer of greenhouse gas emissions, the United States currently is a leading country in bioenergy production driven by a series of policies. One such public program that directly subsidizes biomass feedstock growers is the Biomass Crop...

It is generally understood that sorting logs based on grade generates maximum value for all stakeholders. However, the benefits of sorting logs may depend on the location of a timber sale and distances to manufacturing mills. The objective is to quantify the potential value of log sorting through...

High risk-adjusted returns, low correlation with financial asset classes and inflation hedging are investment characteristics that make forests a desirable investment opportunity. To examine returns on forestry investments (from 2011 to 2020), we focused solely on 48 forest companies (across the...

Harvested wood products (HWPs) in-use, disposed to landfill, and the charcoal created by biomass fuel burning substantially store carbon and potentially mitigate the greenhouse gas effect. To quantify the HWPs carbon storage, we developed a carbon accounting framework, which has the ability to...

Every year, restoration programs in Southern Oregon and Northern California produce large amounts of low-value ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa (PP) lumber. This material has a limited market in the United States. Engineered wood products, such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam, are...

There has been a significant increase in the use of wood pellets for energy in the past decade due in large part to their climate mitigation potential. Because of this, the demand for wood pellets is largely driven by policy, as well as socioeconomic development, making projections of future wood...

A wood-based prepreg was formed using vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) and a low-viscosity thermoplastic resin. Wood strands were assembled to make a porous mat for resin injection. The resin filled most of the cavities inside the wood cells resulting in a void volume fraction of 7%....