scholarly journals Profitability of the First Commercial Thinning, a Simulation Study in Northern Finland

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1389
Author(s):  
Anssi Ahtikoski ◽  
Juha Laitila ◽  
Anu Hilli ◽  
Marja-Leena Päätalo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Forest Owner ◽  
Energy Price ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Private Forest Owners ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Energy Wood ◽  
Private Forest Owner ◽  
Profitability Assessment ◽  
Whole Tree

Despite positive signals from increasing growing stock volumes and improved roundwood trade, first commercial thinnings (FCTs) tend to be a bottleneck in Finnish forest management and forestry. The reasons are many, but probably the most crucial would be the lack of simultaneous economic incentives for participating agents, i.e., private forest owners and forest machine contractors. This is due to poor stand characteristics in most FCT cases: low cutting removal with small average stem size. There are five predetermined management options: (1) Industrial wood thinning with only two timber assortments, pulpwood and saw logs, (2) Integrated procurement of industrial and energy wood, (3) Energy wood thinning solely consisting of delimbed stems, (4) Whole-tree energy wood thinning with an energy price of 3 € m−3 and (5) Whole-tree energy wood thinning with energy price of 8 € m−3, that were applied for six separate forest stands located in Northern Finland, and derived from a database representing stands with an urgent need for FCT. Then, a two-phase financial analysis consisting of stand-level optimization (private forest owners) and profitability assessment (contractor) was conducted in order to find out whether there would be simultaneous economic incentives for both participants of FCT. The stand-level optimization revealed the financially best management options for a private forest owner, and then, for a contractor, the profitability assessment exposed the profit (or loss) associated with the particular management option. In brief, our results demonstrated that conducting either an industrial wood thinning (1) or an integrated procurement (2) resulted in a positive economic incentive for both the private forest owner and the contractor in all six cases (stands). Further, applying energy wood thinning with delimbed stems (3) would even generate a financial loss for the contractor, given the roadside prices applied in this study

Private Forest Owner Typologies in Slovenia and Serbia: Targeting Private Forest Owner Groups for Policy Implementation

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh ◽  
Dragan Nonić ◽  
Predrag Glavonjić ◽  
Jelena Nedeljković ◽  
Mersudin Avdibegović ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Forest Owner ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Private Forest Owner

Interest in energy wood and energy crop production among Finnish non-industrial private forest owners

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 1251-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.-K. Rämö ◽  
E. Järvinen ◽  
T. Latvala ◽  
R. Toivonen ◽  
H. Silvennoinen
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Energy Crop ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Private Forest Owners ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
Energy Wood

scholarly journals Thoreau, Muir, and Jane Doe: Different Types of Private Forest Owners Need Different Kinds of Forest Management

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew O. Finley ◽  
David B. Kittredge
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Forest Owner ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Private Forest Owners ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
Forest Ownership ◽  
Segmentation Analysis

Abstract We present a three-phase segmentation analysis designed to highlight the heterogeneity of forest ownership values and attitudes toward government control, privacy, and environmental protection held by a sample of Massachusetts private forest owners. This case study explores private forest owner characteristics that are associated with enrollment into Massachusetts' Chapter 61 current-use forest property tax program, which requires a professionally prepared 10-year forest management plan. We suggest the key to increasing landowner participation in forest management programs is to (1) recognize this heterogeneity of the target population, and (2) tailor the program to meet segment specific needs and desires.

Waldbesitzertypisierungen und ihre Relevanz für die Holzmobilisierung | Classifications of forest owners and their relevance for timber mobilization

2008 ◽  
Vol 159 (12) ◽  
pp. 435-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Schaffner
Keyword(s):  
Service Industry ◽  
Forest Owner ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Private Forest Owners ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
The Future ◽  
Timber Mobilization ◽  
European Forest ◽  
Forestry Practice

Forestry science and practice are trying to reduce the diversity of private forest owners to a small number of descriptions of characteristics and comportments by creating categories of forest owners using a system based on combinations of these various characteristics. A comparison between various middle-European forest owner categories makes it clear that for the majority two main processes form the basis. The change in agrarian structures and the associated change from a tradition of owner management to a service industry alter the conditions which were previously valid for this division into categories. Analyses which explain the mechanisms behind observed effects in the newly developing service industry market and in its potential performance will gain in importance for forestry practice in the future.

scholarly journals European private forest owner typologies: A review of methods and use

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 21-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Ficko ◽  
Gun Lidestav ◽  
Áine Ní Dhubháin ◽  
Heimo Karppinen ◽  
Ivana Zivojinovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Owner ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Private Forest Owner

MESTA — NON-INDUSTRIAL PRIVATE FOREST OWNERS' DECISION-SUPPORT ENVIRONMENT FOR THE EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE FOREST PLANS OVER THE INTERNET

2005 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 601-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
KARRI PASANEN ◽  
MIKKO KURTTILA ◽  
JOUNI PYKÄlÄINEN ◽  
JYRKI KANGAS ◽  
PEKKA LESKINEN
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Forest Planning ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Forest Owner ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Private Forest Owners ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
Forest Plans

The supply of Internet-based forest planning services to non-industrial private forest owners has increased. At the core of these services there is usually the "paper forest plan" in browseable format. The options to update the stand-level data and to download, fill and send various forms related to stand treatments are further characteristics of these services. The real potential of web-based services has not yet, however, been fully exploited. In addition, changes in the structure of non-industrial private forest ownership call for new facilities to be included in these services. The aim of this article is to present some characteristics that could be included in Internet-based forest planning services. The Mesta decision support service is intended to be used independently by forest owners, who are interested in examining, over the Internet, the production possibilities of their forest holding and in comparing alternative forest plans with respect to different goals concerning the use of their forest holding. Mesta includes a facility enabling preliminary objective enquiries from the forest owner, the creation and presentation of alternative forest plans and multi-criteria comparisons of alternative forest plans. The comparison technique is so executed that forest owners' independent assessments are enabled over the Internet without necessitating personal guidance by forest planning consultants. The results of trial use involving eight North-Karelian forest owners were encouraging. However, the current version of Mesta has been developed for research purposes and its properties and user-friendliness need to be improved before it can be included as a component of commercial Internet-based forest planning services.

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