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Forest fund estimate

Economic evaluation of forest funds

Infrastructure planning for reclamation of forest funds

Economic evaluation of forest funds

Availability of forest resources provides a condition for organization of the most different wood harvesting and processing productions facilities, and availability and actuality of information on forest funds allows to decide upon both urgent and perspective business tasks with maximal efficiency.

This work purposes to estimating timber cutting expediencyof given forest reserves, transport accessibility of the forest funds and their economical attractiveness, basing upon species & qualitative composition of the forest reserves in changeable conditions (the changing environment of forest products markets, change of forest fund characteristics etc.).

The sense of this work lies in a possibility to obtain actual information upon a given forestal sector both entrusted or rented, its taxation characteristic, dynamics, an economical (cadastre) estimate, a trade or assortment structure. These are the data upon which one could base a plan for a business with long-term profitability.

To prepare an economical estimate, the following principles are taken into account:

speed;
use of up-to-date knowledge and technologies;
basing on widely spread and common-used data (including forest management and statistics data);
providing of acceptable authenticity of the results received;
adaptation of the process of estimation to forest management practices.

The result of these works is the definition of territorially optimized forest raw materials in the structure of commercial forests and also determination of economically accessible forest resources at the big territories on the framework of elaboration of regional programs of forest sector development. An estimate could be implemented at any moment and is enough for strategic planning of forestry development.