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If land has been assigned indefinitely to timber production, the age at which trees should be clearcut and the land replanted must be determined. This is an optimal replacement problem, similar to that encountered in livestock management. However, just as in the production of livestock for meat, there may be other management decisions taken between replacement decisions which affect final biomass at replacement. In the case of livestock production the decisions are usually feed input decisions, whereas in the case of timber production the decisions are output decisions on partial harvesting before clearcutting.
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Kennedy, J.O.S. (1986). Forestry Management. In: Dynamic Programming. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4191-5_9
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