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As proceeds of timber selling are typically not surveyed or measured in national forest inventories, simulated timber harvesting costs are compared with mean timber prices to serve as a proxy for economic timber availability. Consequently, the profitability of timber harvest operations can be interpreted as an economic restriction when evaluating Forest Available for Wood Supply (FAWS). However, timber harvesting productivity and cost models are rare and therefore only a few European countries are able to calculate potential timber harvesting costs for their NFI sample plots.
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Fischer, C., Stadelmann, G. (2019). Calculation of Potential Timber Harvesting Costs (HeProMo). In: Fischer, C., Traub, B. (eds) Swiss National Forest Inventory – Methods and Models of the Fourth Assessment. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19293-8_16
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