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A family in San Carlos, California, is facing an impossible decision: spend more than $40,000 to remove a nearly 500-year-old heritage white oak tree in their backyard or find new homeowners ...
Stumpage is the price a private firm pays for the right to harvest timber from a given land base. It is paid to the current owner of the land. Historically, the price was determined on a basis of the number of trees harvested, or "per stump". Currently it is dictated by more standard measurements such as cubic metres, board feet, or tons. To ...
In forestry rotation analysis, economically optimum rotation can be defined as “that age of rotation when the harvest of stumpage will generate the maximum revenue or economic yield”. In an economically optimum forest rotation analysis, the decision regarding optimum rotation age is undertake by calculating the maximum net present value.
The prices charged to harvest the timber (stumpage fee) are set administratively, rather than through the competitive marketplace, the norm in the United States. In the United States, softwood lumber lots are privately owned, and the owners form an effective political lobby .
California's oldest tree, a Palmer's oak thought to be 13,000 to 18,000 years old, may be threatened by a proposed development, environmentalists say.
The Oaks 2040 survey estimates that 750,000 acres (3,000 km 2) of California oak woodlands are seriously threatened by 2040 as a burgeoning state population makes ever more use of the wildland. [12] This comprehensive survey includes oak woodland maps and inventory data for the ten oak types found in California.
Quercus alba, the white oak, is one of the preeminent hardwoods of eastern and central North America. It is a long-lived oak , native to eastern and central North America and found from Minnesota , Ontario , Quebec , and southern Maine south as far as northern Florida and eastern Texas . [ 3 ]
Blue oak woodlands cover about 2,939,000 acres (11,890 km 2) of the state of California, and of this area about 79%, or 2,322,000 acres (9,400 km 2), shows no evidence of past cutting of trees. [ 3 ] In California's mediterranean climate oak woodlands exist between 60 and 700 meters in elevation.