Considerations for boreal mixedwood silviculture: A view from the dismal science

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 44-49

  Armstrong, Glen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bare land value; Boreal forest; Economics; Faustmann; Financial analysis; Land expectation value; Soil expectation value; Trembling aspen; White spruce

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HARVESTING; LOGGING (FORESTRY);

BARE LAND VALUE; BARE LANDS; BOREAL FORESTS; BOREAL MIXEDWOODS; FAUSTMANN; FINANCIAL ANALYSIS; LAND EXPECTATION VALUE; SOIL EXPECTATION VALUE; TREMBLING ASPEN; WHITE SPRUCE;

TIMBER;

BOREAL FOREST; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECOZONE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; MIXED FOREST; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; SILVICULTURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ECONOMICS; PICEA ENGELMANNII; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SOIL;

CANADA;

PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 84907273236     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc2014-009     Document Type: Article

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