Develop Structural Round Timber (SRT) Extraction Methods
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Develop Structural Round Timber (SRT) Extraction Methods
- Address Climate Change and Extreme Event Effects, Impacts and Vulnerabilities
- Avoid Emissions via Land Management and Policies
- Develop, Collect and Analyze Data at a Variety of Spatial Scales to Inform Priority Projects/Actions
- Document and Share the Sustainable Economic Benefits of Working Landscapes and Natural Areas
- Ensure that Disadvantaged and Underrepresented Communities Benefit from Initiatives
- Prioritize Plans, Projects and Actions that Result in Long Term Sustainability of Jobs & Revenues
- Promote Local Energy Independence, Water/ Energy Use Efficiency and Infrastructure Enhancements
- Protect and Enhance Forest Based Carbon
- Respect Local Autonomy and Local Knowledge in NCRP Planning and Implementation
NCRP RFFC Technical Assistance (DOC)
Deferred/Unfunded
This project, which develops Structural Round Timber (SRT) extraction techniques and legalities, will contribute vital supply understanding to the feasibility study of our current business plan. The FRG-PAD Business Plan is being written as part of the OPR Woody Feedstock grant awarded to FRG through NCRP last year and is due at the end of 2024. To this end, we seek expertise to better inform us in developing the processes needed for bringing SRT out of the forest. Forest treatment areas will include THPs, pre-commercial thinning, forest-fire prevention exemptions, and grant-funded forest heath project locations at Usal Forest.
2024
2024
2025
9/8/2025
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General Information
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This proposal aims to develop ways to extract Structural Round Timber (SRT). Our NCRP grant funded OPR woody feedstock feasibility study needs cost projections for legal SRT extraction. Standard cable logging methods damage logs, are not appropriate for 1”-6” poles and the legalities of selling thinned logs is confusing. Hazardous forest fuel load reduction needs are dire. SRT requires little processing and has high load capacity, granting a high value per unit weight. Our project includes process design, field testing, cost predictions, and legality exploration. We will develop, test and determine costs for low impact cable logging, bundled load cable logging, and log hauling possibilities for 1”-14” logs. Legal harvesting costs and pathways that allow what is harvested to be sold will also be defined and compared. SRT extraction and value added processing can augment RFFI’s forest health work and workflow, create local jobs and bring a superior building material to market.
Solutions
Capacity - Data and Planning, Capacity - Technical Assistance, Fire Resilient Forests - Forest Biomass Residuals
Spatial Information
Tribal Region
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Project Size (Acres)
40
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| Local and/or Political Support | 3rd District (Mendocino): Supervisor John Haschak |
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Project Benefit Performance Measures
Expected Project Benefit Performance Measures
| Capacity Enhancement - # of projects | 1 count | |
| Capacity Enhancement - Type(s) of CE | Type: Technical Assistance | 1 |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | 0.1 | |
| Technical Assistance - Type(s) of TA | Type of Technical Assistance: Plan development/Project Design | 1 |
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Project Types
Project Types
We need a Forester and a Timber Operator to help us define and cost out no-mar log extraction techniques and legalities.
This project will focus on the removal of undervalued forest biomass from timber harvest plans and expedite the removal of poles from the forest restoration projects. It will help to develop a market for structural round timbers that returns profits back into restoration efforts.
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