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Decomposition of Forest Products Buried in Landfills
Key Takeaways
- More lignified materials exhibit less anaerobic degradation in landfills.
- No significant degradation was observed in wood samples, with the exception of oriented strand board (OSB) and Red Oak.
- The carbon conversion of wood under landfill conditions is well below the recommended assumption in the 2006 IPCC Guidance.
- Aggregated by Sloane Ortel
- Original publication year: 2013
- Authors: Xiaoming Wang, Jennifer M. Padgett, John S. Powell, Morton A. Barlaz
- Original Publication: Waste Management
Wood Biodegradation in Laboratory-Scale Landfills
Key Takeaways:
- There was a significant difference in methane generation between hardwood and softwood species, even though cellulose concentrations were similar.
- This may be because lignin polymers in hardwood species have lower structural integrity and are typically more easily degraded in chemical processes than softwood lignin.
- Hardwoods contain both syringyl and guaiacl lignin units, while softwoods contain only guaiacyl lignin.
- Aggregated by Sloane Ortel
- Original publication year: 2011
- Authors: Xiaoming Wang, Jennifer M. Padgett, Florentino B. De la Cruz, Morton Barlaz
- Original Publication: Environmental Science & Technology
Understanding the Utilization of Woody Biomass Through the Perspectives of Southwest United States Forest Service Land Managers: A Qualitative Study
Key Takeaways:
- Land managers expressed anxiety about accelerating the pace and scale of forest restoration, with one respondent noting “honestly, we are on borrowed time.”
- The primary objectives noted by respondents were to reduce hazard fuels (60% of respondents) and protect/promote habitat for wildlife (50% of respondents).
- Respondents expressed that “if a market were available to take woody biomass material, they would. almost always use it.”
- Aggregated by Serge Bushman
- Original publication year: 2022
- Authors: Mary-Ellen Rayna
- Original Publication: University of Montana Graduate Student Theses
Wood Waste Utilization Assessment for the Greater Taos, New Mexico Region
Key Takeaways:
- 27,876 bone dry tonnes (BDT) of biomass was economically available within 50 miles of Taos, NM, at a delivered cost of between $36.25-51.25/BDT
- The authors estimate that forest restoration activities generate 6 BDT of woody biomass per acre treated for pinyon-juniper forests, and an average of 8.5 BDT per acre treated for mixed conifer and ponderosa pine.
- Treating 15-20,000 acres of woodlands would generate 120,000 BDT of woody biomass. There are 3,026,412 acres of woodlands in the survey area, implying a total of 18.2 Million BDT available within 50 acres of Taos, NM.
- Aggregated by Sloane Ortel
- Original publication year: 2017
- Authors: TSS Consultants
- Original Publication: TSS Consultants/The Nature Conservancy
Sustainable Wood Procurement: What the Literature Tells Us
Key Takeaways:
- The cost of forest fuel reduction treatments ranged from $620/acre to $1,627/acre.
- Using a cut-to-length logging system to harvest biomass in Arizona produced costs that were nearly 11 times those for sawlog harvests.
- Integrating biomass harvesting with logging operations led to costs that were 35% lower per tonne of woody biomass.
- Aggregated by Sloane Ortel
- Original publication year: 2012
- Authors: Amanda H. Lang, Brooks C. Mendell
- Original Publication: Journal of Forestry
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals From Forest Land, Woodlands, and Urban Trees in the United States, 1990-2018
Key Takeaways:
- Forest land, harvested wood products, and urban trees collectively represent the largest carbon sink in the United States, offsetting more than 11% of national GHG emissions.
- Roughly 2.7 billion metric tonnes of dead wood are estimated to be present in forests.
- Forested lands in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming are among the few that do not sequester C02 on a net basis.
- Aggregated by Sloane Ortel
- Original publication year: 2020
- Authors: Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, James Smith, Stephen M. Ogle, J.W. Coulston, T.C. Wirth
- Original Publication: USDA Forest Service
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Sloane Ortelwood storageLandfillsmrvClimate SciencewastewoodBiomass BurialDo Wood Vaults Really Work?Decomposition
Decomposition of Forest Products Buried in Landfills
The objective of this study was to investigate the decomposition of selected wood and paper products in landfills. The decomposition of these products under anaerobic
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Sloane OrtelMethanemrvBiomass BurialwastewoodDo Wood Vaults Really Work?DecompositionLandfills
Wood Biodegradation in Laboratory-Scale Landfills
The objective of this research was to characterize the anaerobic biodegradability of major wood products in municipal waste by measuring methane yields, decay rates, the
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Serge Bushmanbiomass utilizationForest RestorationLimits to scalePrescribed FireIs Forest Fuel Reduction a Sustainable Source of Biomass?fuel treatment availability
Understanding the Utilization of Woody Biomass Through the Perspectives of Southwest United States Forest Service Land Managers: A Qualitative Study
Dry ponderosa pine/mixed conifer stands in the Southwestern United States create an overabundance of woody biomass during restoration and fuel treatments. It has been the
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Sloane Ortellog haulingwood storagelogging operationsfuel reduction treatmentsLimits to scaleIs Forest Fuel Reduction a Sustainable Source of Biomass?forest harvestingforestry supply chainwood procurement
Sustainable Wood Procurement: What the Literature Tells Us
Wood procurement teams in the forest products industry must simultaneously meet the raw material cost, quality, and volume requirements of their firms while accounting for
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Sloane Ortelforest inventory and analysiscarbon poolswastewoodLimits to scaleBiomass availabilityclimate changeIs Forest Fuel Reduction a Sustainable Source of Biomass?
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals From Forest Land, Woodlands, and Urban Trees in the United States, 1990-2018
As a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United States has been reporting an economy-wide Inventory of greenhouse gas
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Sloane OrtelCarbon fluxboreal foreststropical forestsClimate ScienceLimits to scaleBiomass availabilityCarbon AccountingCarbon stock
A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests
The terrestrial carbon sink has been large in recent decades, but its size and location remain uncertain. Using forest inventory data and long-term ecosystem carbon
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Sloane OrtelLimits to scaleBiomass availability
The Updated Billion-Ton Resource Assesment
This paper summarizes the results of an update to a resource assessment, published in 2005, commonly referred to as the Billion-Ton Study (BTS). The updated
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Sloane OrtelPrescribed FireWestern United StatesIs Forest Fuel Reduction a Sustainable Source of Biomass?WildfiresFuels ReductionFire EcologyFuel TreatmentThinning
Basic Principles of Forest Fuel Reduction Treatments
"Not every forest is at risk of uncharacteristically severe wildfire, but drier forests are in need of active management to mitigate fire hazard. We summarize
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