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Biomass Economic and Financial Models and Tools

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Web Pages BIOPAK
Description: ANNOTATION: BIOPAK is a software package that contains a plant measurement library of over 1,100 documented equations that estimate plant components, e.g. leaf mass, leaf area, stem wood mass, bark mass, fuel size classes. BIOPAK can choose equations...
Web Pages Coordinated Resource Offering Protocol (CROP)
Description: ANNOTATION: The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management undertook a series of CROP pilot projects as a means of addressing the growing fuel load problem within major forest systems and the realized potential for fostering catastrophic...
Web Pages FIA BioSum
Description: ANNOTATION: FIA BioSum is a concept-based methodology that generates cost estimates, identifies opportunities and evaluates the effectiveness of fuel treatments in region-wide forested landscapes. The BioSum modeling framework incorporates a...
Web Pages Forest Residue Trucking Simulator (FoRTS)
Description: ANNOTATION: FoRTS is a spreadsheet based calculator designed to help compare alternative methods of moving biomass from the forest to a wood-using facility. It will estimate loading and hauling costs for different combinations of equipment, evaluate...
Web Pages Fuel Reduction Cost Simulator (FRCS)
Description: ANNOTATION: FRCS is a spreadsheet application useful for estimating the cost of forest operations undertaken to reduce forest fuel loads by cutting and removing trees for solid wood products or chips. It can also be used to estimate the cost of...
Web Pages Harvest Cost-Revenue Estimator (HCR)
Description: ANNOTATION: The HCR is engineering and financial analysis software used to evaluate stand-level financial thresholds for harvesting small diameter ponderosa pine in the Southwest United States. The HCR can help contractors and planners to identify...
Web Pages LANDFIRE
Description: ANNOTATION: LANDFIRE is an ongoing research project and database that contains geospatial data products that describe existing vegetation composition and structure, potential vegetation, surface and canopy fuel characteristics, historical fire...
Web Pages National Association of Conservation Districts Woody Biomass Utilization Desk Guide
Description: ANNOTATION: This Guide is designed for use by Resource Conservation & Development and Extension professionals throughout the U.S. It also contains handouts and other resources to assist in educating respective audience. The Woody Biomass Desk Guide...
Web Pages USDA Forest Service Region 6 Forest Products Web Page Logging Systems & Economic Programs
Description: ANNOTATION: This website contains information, programs and forms used in implementing forest health maintenance, restoration, and improvement projects on the 19 national forests in Oregon and Washington. The website houses many executable programs...
Web Pages USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station Biomass Heat Values by Tree Species
Description: ANNOTATION: Located here are tables of heat of combustion (Btu/ovendry pound) of stems and branches of 6-inch trees from 22 hardwood species growing on southern pine sites. Heat value, or heat of combustion, which is defined as the total amount of...
Web Pages USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station Biomass Publications from the Forest Operations Research Unit: A Synthesis
Description: ANNOTATION: The Forest Operations Research Unit at the Southern Research Station has been studying biomass-related topics since 1977. This CD aids the reader by organizing these publications in one easy-to-use CD. Included on the CD are an executive...
Web Pages USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station Moisture Content Converter
Description: ANNOTATION: This is an Excel spreadsheet that converts wood moisture contents from either dry basis to wet basis or wet basis to dry basis. The moisture content of biomass affects the gross weight of the material that is being handled. Green material...
Web Pages USDA Forest Service Woody Biomass Utilization Website
Description: ANNOTATION: The Woody Biomass Utilization Team is an interdisciplinary team that promotes and facilitates the planning and delivery of an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to the recovery and utilization of woody biomass from ecological...
Web Pages WEBOFIRE
Description: ANNOTATION: WEBOFIRE links stand inventory data and visualizations with the Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE; http://www.fs.fed.us/fmsc/fvs/description/ffe-fvs.shtml) and the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS; http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/f...