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Research
Topics of Interest
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Cut-to-Length
Harvesting – Economics and possibilities
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Energywood
– Could this be a highly marketable product in the future?
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Possibility
of using pre-commercial thinning in overstocked stands for forest fuel
reduction
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Small
in-woods chippers used with Cut-to-Length harvesting systems
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The
cost and productivity of purpose built small-scale harvesting equipment
for extracting non-merchantable stems over a range of stand and terrain
conditions
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Alternative
products produced from non-merchantable material, such as energy chips
or other engineered products
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The
expansion of suitable bio-energy processing facilities
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The
amount of merchantable material that must be removed to offset the
costs of a fuel reduction treatment
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New
harvesting and extracting technologies (i.e. purpose built harvesting
heads, and composite residue logs from slash bundling techniques)
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Site
productivity and soil impacts during and following a fuel reduction
harvest
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Decision
support models for landowners and contractors, public and private, to
aid in choosing an appropriate fuel reduction treatment and harvesting
system along with costs and productivity
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