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Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability to Utilize Small-Diameter Timber Within USDA Forest Service, Region Two (Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota)

Managing forests to reduce fire hazard and restore ecosystem function has increased the need for accurate information on timber-milling capacity and the capability of mills to process trees of various sizes. Implementing treatments to restore desired ecological conditions can require removing both larger, more valuable trees, as well as smaller trees with limited value and markets. Quantification of current milling capacity and elucidation of the sizes and types of materials that existing mills are capable of using are key components of financial analyses of timber sales, fire hazard reduction treatments, and ecosystem restoration programs.

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability of Mills to Utilize Timber By Diameter Size Class in the Black Hills National Forest Timber-Processing Area (March 2024)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability of Mills to Utilize Timber by Diameter Size Class within the Shoshone National Forests Timber-Processing Area (September 2021)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability of Mills to Utilize Timber by Diameter Size within the Bighorn National Forests Timber-Processing Area (June 2021)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability of Mills to Utilize Timber by Diameter Size within the Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests Timber-Processing Area (December 2020)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability within the San Juan National Forests Timber-Processing Area (August 2020)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity, and Capability within the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region Timber-Processing Area (Journal of Forestry, March 2020)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability Within The White River National Forest Timber-Processing Area (Jan. 2020)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability Within The Pike-San Isabel National Forest Timber-Processing Area (Sep. 2019)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability Within The USDA Forest Service Region 2 Timber-Processing Area (Spring 2019)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability By Diameter Size in the Black Hills National Forest Timber-Processing Area (Winter 2018)

• Timber Use, Processing Capacity and Capability By Diameter Size Class in the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests Timber-Processing Area (Winter 2018)

• RioGrande National Forest Timber-Processing Area (August 2017)

• Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest Timber-Processing Area (August 2017)

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