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MB&G assists clients with strategic, tactical and operational issues, such as managing timberland, balancing short- and long-term harvest objectives, determining the best way to meet financial objectives, and ensuring that today’s management does not block tomorrow’s opportunities. We use a variety of analytical techniques, ranging from simulation to optimization to heuristics to help timberland owners and managers prepare both short- and long- term management plans. Much of our forest planning work is for private clients and is confidential.
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Idaho Department of Lands |
Provided a set of planning software tools that begin with basic inventory data and result in a long-term timber harvest scheduling model used to establish short- and long-term management goals. |
Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation |
Built a long-term forest management model that recognizes timber and revenue objectives, as well as commitments to fish, wildlife, watershed and other values. The model was used to make a Sustained Yield Calculation and to evaluate alternatives for a statewide HCP. |
Private Timberland Owner |
Developed on-going, five-year business plans reflecting the client's short- and long-term management objectives while recognizing physical, biological, and management constraints. The plans use economic objectives to establish silvicultural practices and harvest rates. |
Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) |
Developed general timber yield tables, stand structure projections, and GIS data needed to build ODF's Harvest and Habitat model. Assisted ODF in displaying and interpreting growth and scheduling outputs. |
US Forest Service |
Provide planning analysis to Interdisciplinary Teams with responsibilities for revising the National Forest Management Act (NFMA) forest plans across the country. Our role is to build planning models that the Interdisciplinary Teams use to generate and evaluate forest plan alternatives. |
Private Clients |
Developed spatially constrained five-year and long-term harvest schedule for mid-sized private timberlands owners in Western Oregon. Modeling specifically schedules individual harvest units for 100 years, while recognizing green-up requirements of adjacent stands. Analysis optimized present net worth by selecting from a variety of silvicultural options.
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| Private Client in Maine |
Conducted extensive review of model input data, processes and procedures to validate sustained-yield calculations for 800,000 acre landbase under certification audits. |
| US Forest Service |
Developed a harvest scheduling model and red-cockaded woodpecker habitat model to assess the impacts of alternative forest management strategies on production of timber and provision of woodpecker habitat over time. The habitat model analyzed and mapped the development of colony sites and forage habitat for the endangered woodpecker and was used to validate future management direction for the 180,000 acre property. |
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