Timber Harvesting in Coos County

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Analysis of Timber Supply and Harvesting in the
North Country
Matt Tansey Department of Resources and Economic
Development Division of Forests and Lands
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Sources of Data

• Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA)
• New data coming in summer 2008
• Report of Cut
• Geographic Data
• Needs to be developed

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FIA

• Considers Northern 3 Counties a Unit
• Northern Unit acts like 3 regions
• WMNF High volume hardwood, low harvest
• South smaller lots, more white pine
• North larger lots, more hardwood, industrial

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FIA

• Growing stock on Timberland in North Unit
• Avg. Ann Net Growth 75,944,000 cu ft
• Avg. Ann removals 71,607,000 cu ft
• Growth to Harvest ratio 1.11
• Stocking 21.6 Cds/ac
• Growth Rate .38 cords/acre/year

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Report of Cut

• Some of the best data around
• Accurate Enforced by law
• Many different species
• Collected at the town and parcel level
• 2006 data coming soon

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Report of Cut
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Report of Cut
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Report of Cut

• Average Harvest about 350,000 Cds
• Hardwood is 57 of Harvest
• Lowgrade wood is 71 of Harvest

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Report of Cut
Important because of its size, can be 10 to 30
of County Harvest
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Report of Cut
Somewhat the inverse of the County trend
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Report of Cut
400 increase in 2004
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Report of Cut
About a 300 increase in 1 years
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Analyze the Landbase

• Add some flavor to the landscape
• Where is the easy wood?
• Accessibility and operability?
• Growth potential
• Social or political ownerships

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30 Meter Digital Elevation Model
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Areas of state or federal land that are not
designated for Timber Harvesting
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GRANIT 2001 Land Cover Assessment
Developed Transportation Open
water Disturbed Agriculture Krumholz Alpine N
on Forested Wetland
Then Add Soils data Wetlands Riparian buffers
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A Possible Timberbase Map
Current Timberbase map has more areas off limits
to harvesting Ie Bunnel, parts of Umbagog NWR
CT Lakes Wildlife Preserve
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Thanks
Questions?