High-Value Forest Management
Plantation forests (or working forests) are managed in a limited area to meet increasing demand for timber products. They are characterized by fast growth, short rotation, rapid nutrient cycling and depletion, and high nutrient and biomass output per unit of time and area. How to establish plantation forests, and manage them in a sustainable manner is the important issues that we have dealt with for the past decades. We can help our clients to maximize the yield and profits of timber products per unit of area, and achieve sustainable management of plantation forest.
In recent years, much attention has been paid to high-value forests that produce bioenergy and biofuel, or sequestrate large amount of carbon for carbon trade under Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) category in Kyoto Protocol. We can help our clients design high-value plantation forests for the following purposes:
To generate forest biomass (pellets, chips, lignin, processing plant wastes, etc.) to produce electricity, steam and heat by planting genetically modified species such as hybrid poplar, hybrid willow, hybrid aspen, switchgrass, and hemp.
To produce forest biomass that can be transformed to liquid or gaseous fuel (biodiesel, bioethanol, biogas, bio-oil, biohydrogen) through gasification, transesterification, or biological treatment.
To produce large amount of carbon credits from carbon sequestration in a plantation forest (generally called carbon forest) where photosynthesis and biomass production are maximized by optimizing growing factors for vegetation.
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Technologies for treating and using biosolids for land reclamation and plant growth
Computer-based decision support tools for biosolids recycling/fertilization in forests I. the Whistler study