This study utilized financial records of private logging firms to examine if returns to scale exist in the logging industry in the Eastern United States. A total of 658 observations of contractor's logging costs and production collected for fiscal years 1988-2007 from 12 states were used in the...

Documentation of Productivity and Efficiency Relationships for a Group of Southern Logging Contractors Michael J. Walter William B. Stuart, Chair (ABSTRACT) A case study examined contractor demographics, business characteristics, costs and production information from twenty-three tree-length...

The study examined contractor demographics, business and technological characteristics, costs, and production information for 15 independent logging firms in the Appalachians. Contractors represented nine states and were studied from 1995 to 1997. Each contractor's cost and production...

A group of 35 loggers located across the southeastern United States provided 192 logger years of productivity and cost information. Information, including logger demographics, business, and operational data, was also collected through an interview process with the participants. Indicators of...

Physiological process models, productivity studies, andwildlife abundance studies all require accuraterepresentations of tree crowns. In the past, geometricshapes or flexible mathematical equations approximatinggeometric shapes were used to represent crown profiles.Crown profile of loblolly pine...