Report Outline
Executive Summary
Section 1: Introduction (Kai)
Chapter 1: Defining the Problem
Project Objective
- Transportation and harvest plan
- Restoring habitat/maintaining 55% dispersal habitat
- Discuss conflicting goals/dilemma
Design Constraints
Address following questions:
- What part of the harvest plan do these things constrain?
- How do they affect setting design and road location?
- Topography
- Slope Stability
- HCP (dispersal habitat)
- Riparian buffers i.e. yarding requirements across streams
- Social (is this section necessary?)
- Regulations used (HCP, FPA, WDFW, LCF)
- Ground systems cannot be used on slopes >30%
- No space to build landings
- Roads that have swing yarders cannot exceed 12%
Chapter 2: Planning the Project (Kai, description
of planning process listing the following sections, 1 page)
Gathering Information
Resource Assessment
Design Activities
Design Results
Section 2: Gathering Information
Chapter 3: Data
Address Questions:
- Where did data come from? (Weikko)
- GIS
- DEM (describe scale of DEM used 1:4800)
- DNR coverages (what coverages were used, include a table describing the use of each coverage)
Section 3: Resource Assessment
Chapter 4: Watershed Analysis (FE 423) (Kai,
site characteristics)
Chapter 5: Slope Stability
Chapter 6: Timber Resources (Abby)
Table of data input into PLANS
- Tailholds
- Payload
- Vol/acre
- Trees/acre
Current habitat conditions
Chapter 7: Timber Market (Jim)
Include current market conditions like log and product values; mill location and potential buyers
Chapter 8: Equipment Capabilities (Jim)
Discuss 5 systems
- Helicopter
- Ground systems
- Swing yarder
- Thinning systems
- 70ft Tower
Questions that should be answered for each system:
What is the total cost? (labor, rigging lines, equipment, etc)
What areas will they be used in?
Production estimates
Section 4: Design Activities (description of process, no results or specifics are put into this section, no more than a page on each category)
Chapter 9: Road and Setting Design
Pre-Field
- Landing location
- Road pegging
- Input into PLANS
- Digitizing
Post-Field
- Redrawing roads
- Re-digitizing
Chapter 10: Growth modeling (Abby)
Section 5: Design Results
Chapter 11: Road System
Show map of entire planning area
Discuss general road system
- Naming convention
- Areas that can and can’t be accessed by roads
- General overview of road system (i.e. statistics)
- Road Recon Reports
Chapter 12: Setting and Harvest Systems
Setting maps
AYD
payloads
Chapter 13: Silviculture (Abby)
Future stand conditions (i.e. growth rates)
How wil future stand conditions affect current setting design?
- Which areas should be thinned, clear cut, etc.
- The big question: what are the silvicultural steps that need to be taken to restore 55% dispersal habitat?
Chapter 14: Harvest Scheduling (Luke)
Section 6: Conclusion
Recommendation
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