Mechanization in Short Rotation, Intensive Culture (SRIC) Forestry

Proceedings of the IEA/BA Task IX, Activity 1
International Conference
Mobile, Alabama USA
March 1-3, 1994

Edited by
Bryce J. Stokes and Timothy P. McDonald
U.S.D.A. Forest Service
DeVall Drive
Auburn University, Alabama 36849

Hosted by
Scott Paper Company

Sponsored by
IEA/BA Task IX, Activity 1
Electric Power Research Institute
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
Southern Forest Engineering Center
Auburn University
Southern Forest Experiment Station
U.S.D.A. Forest Service
Southeastern Regional Biomass Energy Program

Demonstration Sponsored by
Morbark Industries

Foreward
Session I (Moderator - Jim Decosmo): Industrial short rotation intensive culture operations,Thomas H. Morgan, Jr; Harvesting costs and utilization of hardwood plantations, Timothy P. McDonald and Bryce J. Stokes; Short rotation forestry in loblolly pine, Alan P. Bruce; Utilization of cottonwood plantations, C. Jeffrey Portwood; Stand Establishment and Culture of Hybrid Poplars, Charles E. Kaiser, Donald E. Rice, and Kirk R. Wallace; Development of a flail harvester for small diameter brush and coppiced trees to produce energy/chemical feedstock, Robert A. McLauchlan, Andrew Conkey, Greg Scherer, Peter Felker, and Stan Brown; Mechanization of short rotation intensive-culture wood crops, William B. Stuart; Growing Eucalyptus for Pulp and Energy, James A. Rydelius
Session II (Moderator - Sam Foster): Management of irrigated hybrid poplar plantations in the Pacific Northwest, Charles A. Wierman; Mechanization potential for industrial-scale fiber and energy plantations, Bruce Hartsough and Randall Richter; Establishing and tending poplar plantations in the North-Central U.S., Dan Netzer and Ed Ward Hansen; Silvicultural techniques for short rotation Eucalyptus plantations in Brazil, Ken McNabb; The effects of whole tree harvesting on fuel quality and coppicing ability of SRIC willow crops, Juha Nurmi and Jyrki Hytönen; Utilization of short rotation forestry from an effluent disposal scheme, Hamish T. Lowe, Ralph E.H. Sims, and Jim A. Cooper
Session III (Moderator - Joseph Saucier): Developing sustainable integrated biomass systems, Jane H. Turnbull; Current status and future directions for the U.S. Department of Energy's short rotation woody crop research, G. A. Tuskan, M.E. Downing, and L.L. Wright; Update of short rotation intensive culture in Canada, Marie-Louise Tardif; Mechanisation of short rotation intensive culture forestry (in the UK), Damian Culshaw
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File posted on March 5, 1996; Date Modified: February 24, 1999

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