Forest utilization strategies to maximize value creation from British Columbia's forest resources

不列颠哥伦比亚省的林业部门迫切需要现代化和创新，以确保经济繁荣。因此，我研究的主要长期目标是通过最大化卑诗省每公顷收获的木材的价值来提高不列颠哥伦比亚省林业部门的竞争力和可持续性。这一目标将导致相同地区的更多产量，这将是解决纤维供应和竞争力挑战的重要一步。这一长期目标将得到两个短期目标的支持：i)利用下一代设备在卑诗省的环境和地理梯度上优化森林作业做法，特别是间伐；ii)开发评估森林生物量可用性、采伐技术和方法的新方法；目标i)确定适用于卑诗省的创新采伐技术和森林机械概念；ii)确定不同林分类型和条件下的生产力和成本；iii)调查其增加区域纤维供应和整体林分价值的能力；以及iv)开发决策支持模型，以确定在哪些当地条件下每个采伐系统最合适。目标二将由一名博士和一名理学硕士负责。博士将通过以下方式调查不同条件(林分类型、当地市场、经济)下收获残留物的积累：i)更新和验证不列颠哥伦比亚省不同地点和林分类型的BIOOS模型的准确性；ii)进一步开发收获残留物预测模型，以包括在不同经济和环境条件下收获的纤维类别(锯木、纸浆木材)；iii)使用地统计分析方法将收获残留物估计模型从林分水平扩展到景观水平；以及iv)绘制大面积上纤维类别(原木类别)的分布图。理科硕士。将：i)调查卑诗省生物质收获的创新性综合收获方法；ii)比较林业与工业的供应成本；以及iii)为卑诗省生物质的创新性综合收获系统的采用提供建议。以科学为基础的决策支持工具正在推动森林管理的转变和从有限的森林资源创造价值。这项研究将吸引大量利益相关者参与，包括承包商、森林管理者、林业行业和农业部。除了在期刊上传播学术成果外，还将通过技术指导、实地考察、实习和积极参加专业会议来传播成果。最后，由于劳动力短缺，林业部门也面临困难，这项拟议的研究将支持HQP的教育，使其在毕业后立即对该部门产生影响。

The forest sector in BC is in urgent need to modernization and innovation in order to ensure economic prosperity. Consequently the main long term objective of my research is to contribute to increase the competitiveness and sustainability of the forest sector in BC by maximising the value of wood extracted from each hectare harvested in BC.This objective would lead to more production from the same areas, which would be a major step towards addressing fibre supply and competitiveness challenges. This long-term objective will be supported by two short-term objectives: I)Optimising forest operations practices, specifically thinning, across environmental, and geographical gradients in BC using next generation equipment II)Developing novel methodologies to assess forest biomass availability, harvesting technology and methods Objective I, will be addressed by a Ph.D., which aims to i) identify innovative harvesting technologies and forest machine concepts suitable for BC, ii) determine their productivity and cost in different stand types and conditions, iii) investigate their ability to increasing regional fibre supply and overall stand value and iv) develop a decision support model to identify under which local conditions each harvesting system is the most appropriate. Objective II will be addressed by a Ph.D. and a M.Sc.. The Ph.D. will investigate the accumulation of harvest residues under varying conditions (stand types, local markets, economics) by i) updating and validating the accuracy of the  BiOS model for different site and stand types in BC, ii) further developing harvest residue prediction models to include categories of fibre harvested (sawlog, pulpwood) under varying economic and environmental conditions; iii) expanding harvest residue estimation models from stand level to landscape level estimations using geostatistical analysis approaches and iv) mapping distribution of fibre categories (log assortments) over large areas. A M.Sc. will i) investigate innovative integrated harvesting approaches for biomass harvesting in BC; ii) compare forest-to-industry supply costs; and iii) provide recommendations for uptake of innovative integrated harvesting systems for biomass in BC The research is directly helping to address challenges the forest sector is facing in BC. The science based decision support tools are contributing to a transformation in forest management and value creation from the limited forest resources. The research will engage a large number of stakeholders including contractors, forest managers, the forest industry and the ministry. In addition to the academic dissemination in journals results will also be communicated through tech guides, field visits, internships and active participation in professional conferences. Finally, the forest sector is also facing difficulties due to labor shortages and this proposed research will support the education of HQP that can have an immediate impact in the sector upon graduation.