scholarly journals Collection of Nontimber Forest Products from State Forests in the US South

2016 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory E. Frey ◽  
James L. Chamberlain
Keyword(s):  
Forest Products ◽  
Nontimber Forest Products ◽  
Us South ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals Consulting Forester Timber Sale Practices in the US South

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick M Grove ◽  
Joseph L Conrad ◽  
Thomas G Harris ◽  
Joseph Dahlen
Keyword(s):  
Forest Products ◽  
Forest Products Industry ◽  
Us South ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Lump Sum ◽  
Timber Sales ◽  
Consulting Firms ◽  
The Us ◽  
Timber Sale ◽  
Percent Response Rate

Abstract Private timber sale transactions are vital to the forest products industry in the US South. Consulting foresters often assist private landowners in administering timber sales, and their decisions and practices have a major impact on landowner compensation, satisfaction, and market efficiency. This study used a mixed-mode survey of consulting foresters in 11 southern states to examine contract terms, timber sale practices, and market conditions on private sales. Responses were received from 430 consultants, resulting in a 37 percent response rate. Final harvests are primarily offered to bidders, whereas thinnings are more likely to have timber prices negotiated. Pay-as-cut payment terms are typical for thinnings, but less common in the Mountains where lump sum is relatively more common. Well under 50 percent of firms from the Coastal Plain and Piedmont conduct presale inventories on thinnings, whereas nearly two-thirds of firms in the Mountains use inventories on these types of harvests. Fewer than 25 percent of responding foresters suggested that restrictive quotas reduced landowner revenue on pay-as-cut timber sales. Consulting firms reporting that sawtimber quotas were never a problem in their area reported at least two more sawtimber outlets than those concerned about restrictive mill quotas.

scholarly journals Improving Timber Trucking Performance by Reducing Variability of Log Truck Weights

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda K. Hamsley ◽  
W. Dale Greene ◽  
Jacek P. Siry ◽  
Brooks C. Mendell
Keyword(s):  
Confidence Level ◽  
Coefficient Of Variation ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
The Other ◽  
Us South ◽  
The Us ◽  
Variability Level ◽  
Gross Vehicle Weight ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Weight Data

Abstract We evaluated weight data from 79,760 truckloads delivered to 24 southern forest products mills to assess opportunities for improving trucking efficiency by reducing the variability of gross, tare, and net weights. We compared the mean gross vehicle weight (GVW) at each mill to the federal weight limit of 40 tons and to any mill overweight policy. A benchmark group of suppliers was identified at each mill as the five with the lowest coefficient of variation (CV) on their GVWs to compare with the other suppliers at each mill. All mills had mean GVWs significantly different from the federal limit at the 90% confidence level or stronger. A majority of loads delivered to each mill (77–100%) complied with mill GVW policies. At most mills, the benchmark group had higher mean GVWs and net weights, as well as lower GVW variability. Decreased GVW variability was associated with higher payloads. Mean tare weight and mean net weight exhibited an approximately 1:1 relationship at 15 mills. Benchmark groups at 14 mills had significantly larger payloads, and we project that they had 4–14% lower per-ton hauling costs than other suppliers at the mills. These results suggest that operating at the reduced variability level of the benchmark groups across the 221 million tons of roundwood annually consumed in the US South could result in a savings of $100 million annually.

Use of georeferenced data to study clustering in the primary wood products industry of the US South

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 2494-2504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco X. Aguilar ◽  
Robert K. Grala ◽  
Stephen M. Bratkovich
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Transportation Infrastructure ◽  
Primary Forest ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Us South ◽  
The Us ◽  
Wood Products Industry

Forest business clusters offer a unique opportunity to improve competitiveness of the forest products sector and stimulate economic development in rural areas. This study utilized georeferenced data on the location of primary wood products manufacturers in the US South to examine spatial clustering within this industry. Independent spatial analyses, F-hat and L-hat, and a χ2 statistic provided evidence of regional clustering. A count data model was used to determine location preference of primary wood-using mills and identify factors promoting industry clustering. It was determined that access to a labor pool, low cost of primary inputs, presence of related industries, adequate transportation infrastructure, and low land values positively influenced clustering among primary wood-using mills. A marginal analysis indicated that counties with adequate transportation infrastructure and presence of related industries were most likely to attract new primary forest products manufacturers. These two factors increased the predicted number of sawmills by 26.83% and 22.65%, respectively. Increases in prices of logs and energy can deter the spatial aggregation of wood-using mills. Results provide evidence that public investments in infrastructure can have an important role in attracting wood products industry firms.

Forest Products Industry Size and Economic Multipliers in the US South

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 372-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ram P. Dahal ◽  
James E. Henderson ◽  
Ian A. Munn
Keyword(s):  
Forest Products ◽  
Forest Products Industry ◽  
Us South ◽  
The Us

Evaluating Changes in Tax Contributions of the Forest Products Industry in the US South

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Ram P. Dahal ◽  
James E. Henderson ◽  
Ian A. Munn
Keyword(s):  
Forest Products ◽  
Forest Products Industry ◽  
Us South ◽  
The Us

Southern Looks? A History of African American Missionary Photography of Africa, 1890s–1930s

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 390-417
Author(s):  
ELISABETH ENGEL
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
Us South ◽  
New Negro ◽  
American Institution ◽  
African Methodist Episcopal Church ◽  
The Us ◽  
Methodist Episcopal Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
Visual Description

This article traces and analyzes the missionary photography of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the most important independent black American institution that began to operate in colonial South Africa at the onset of the politics of racial segregation in the 1890s. It argues that AME missionary photography presents a neglected archive, from which a history of black photographic encounters and a subaltern perspective on the dominant visual cultures of European imperialism and Christian missions in Africa can be retrieved. Focussing in particular on how AME missionaries deployed tropes of the culturally refined “New Negro” and the US South in their visual description of South Africa, this article demonstrates that photography was an important tool for black subjects to define their image beyond the representations of black inferiority that established visual traditions constructed.

Ranking economics departments in the US South

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin G. Mixon ◽  
Kamal P. Upadhyaya
Keyword(s):  
Us South ◽  
The Us

The future of musical theatre: An animation of a video call between collaborators, 30 September 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Brooke Fairfield ◽  
Krista Knight ◽  
Barry Brinegar
Keyword(s):  
Musical Theatre ◽  
First Century ◽  
Us South ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Justice Movements

In the first autumn of the COVID-19 pandemic, long-time theatre collaborators in two different cities in the US South discuss the future of an art form that has currently gone dark. Influenced by punk culture, twenty-first-century internet aesthetics, social justice movements and their pets, this decade-strong creative team reflects in a multimedia format on their past work and enumerates their priorities for the future of musical theatre: cheap, remote, inexperienced, local, radical and full of women and sexual/gender minorities.

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