Availability of fuelwood on private forest lands in northern lower Michigan

Thesis/Dissertation · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5695318

Parker, R G

The purpose of this dissertation is to determine the availability of fuelwood on private forest ownerships in the northern half of the Michigan Lower Peninsula. Because 61 percent of the northern Lower Peninsula's forests are privately owned, significant increases in use will have to depend in large part on the private forest resource. Information was gathered on size of forest ownerships, cover type, owner characteristics, owner objectives, past harvesting decisions, fuelwood use, willingness to sell fuelwood, acceptable price and harvesting techniques, non-price incentives to harvest, and reasons for not being willing to sell. Physical availability of biomass on 3,957,600 acres of private forest land was found to be between 8.5 and 10.3 million green tons annually. Thirty-five percent of the privately owned forest acres are available for fuelwood at present prices. Another 30 percent are available at higher prices. Sixteen percent of the forest acreas are not available now, but will become available later as owner reasons for not selling change over time. Nineteen percent of the forest area will never be available. It was concluded that availability of fuelwood on private holdings was adequate for present and projected fuelwood needs, unless non-fuelwood uses doubled at the same time.

• OSTI ID: 5695318
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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