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- Title
How promptly nonindustrial private forest landowners regenerate their lands after harvest: a duration analysis.
- Authors
Munn, Ian A.; Changyou Sun; Hussain, Anwar; Xing Sun
- Abstract
Understanding factors that influence how promptly landowners regenerate their timberlands after harvest, if at all, is critical to developing policies to improve forest productivity. Mississippi forest landowners with over 100 acres (1 acre = 0.404 ha) of forestland were surveyed in 2006 to collect harvest and regeneration data from 1996 to 2006. This study investigated the length of the time interval between harvest and reforestation. Nonparametric duration analysis was used to examine how long nonindustrial private forest landowners waited to reforest after harvesting. Parametric duration analysis was used to examine factors that influenced the length of this period. The mean time elapsed from harvest to regeneration was 11 months for landowners that regenerated their lands. The instantaneous probability of regeneration reached its highest value in the 16th month after harvest and, thereafter, decreased steadily until the 28th month, after which the probability of regeneration was essentially nil. Interest in timber production, employing a consultant, and ownerships that were predominantly pine forest types were factors associated with substantially shorter reforestation times. Lower stumpage prices and higher reforestation costs were associated with substantially longer reforestation times.
- Subjects
PRIVATE forests; REFORESTATION; PLANT population regeneration; FORESTS &; forestry; REGENERATION (Botany); LANDOWNERS
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2008, Vol 38, Issue 8, p2109
- ISSN
0045-5067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/X08-058