Insights

Quantifying type of thinning: the d/D ratio
thinning
silviculture
timber harvest
FVS
A metric that provides an objective approach to understanding different types of thinning.
Jun 29, 2025

The type of thinning matters for future carbon stocks
FVS
growth and yield
thinning
silviculture
The type of thinning, (e.g., from below, throughout, or above the diameter distribution), plays an important role in future forest carbon stocks.
Jun 23, 2025

Predicting the black swan: extreme event models
modeling
extreme events
disturbance
Extreme value analyses can quantify the distribution of intense events that have a very low probability of occurrence.
May 30, 2025

Accounting for defect when quantifying tree-level biomass
biomass
carbon
defect
forest carbon
Field measurements that portray the defect of a tree can be used to dial in estimates of tree biomass and carbon.
May 28, 2025

Timber harvest trends in the northern US in the last 25 years
timber harvest
forest products
logging
Historical data quantify the decrease in harvest volume in the past three decades.
Apr 24, 2025

How much does adding regeneration change FVS predictions?
FVS
growth and yield
regeneration
calibration
Regeneration is not a component of many geographics variants of the FVS model, but including it can have a big impact on long-term predictions of forest carbon.
Apr 21, 2025

Determining expected wait times at mills for wood deliveries
regression
wait times
forest products
quantile regression
Reducing the wait times of wood deliveries is a priority for wood procurement managers and suppliers.
Feb 22, 2025

How well does the “quick and dirty” standard deviation approximation work?
statistics
analytics
data science
Gauging the performance of a simple approximation.
Jan 19, 2025

Github Copilot: user thoughts from six months in
code
analytics
programming
Adventures in using an AI-powered paired programming
Jan 15, 2025
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