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Using Optimization for Improved Forest Asset Valuation

Optimization modeling offers a holistic approach to asset valuation that’s efficient, repeatable, and effective whether you’re evaluating an existing property or a potential land acquisition.

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Improving the Accuracy of Annual Harvest Planning: Idaho Department of Lands

A templated approach for creating custom harvest models improved annual harvest planning efficiency, and provided downstream benefits for Idaho Department of Lands when updating models post-implementation.

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Wood Basket Analysis Helps Forest Companies Adapt to Changing Dynamics

Navigating the complexities of wood supply modeling, and why optimization techniques like wood basket analysis are more important than ever to adapt and thrive within today’s changing economy.

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Woodstock optimization studio by Remsoft. Prescriptive analytics for forest management planning.

Three Sources of Infeasibility in Your Woodstock Model Explained

Learn about three common causes of infeasibilities in your Woodstock optimization model and how to address them.

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Forestry workers in a timber yard. Forest operations and wood supply activities.

Why You Should Review Your Model Periodically

Analytics models are widely employed in business and run the gamut of applications from data mining and classification models to predictive and prescriptive models. For optimal performance, learn when you should review your model and why it’s important.

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Why You Should Choose Your Discount Rate Wisely

Discounting costs and revenues often drive the objective function of forest growth and yield modeling. In this post we look at why discounting is important, and how to choose your discount rate wisely.

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Optimizing Prescribed Burns to Reduce the Impact of Future Wildfires

Using the optimization potential of Remsoft Woodstock, the Australian Capital Territory Parks and Conservation Service (ACT PCS) developed improved prescribed burn programs for their 10-year Regional Fire Management Plan.

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Forest Harvest and Road Planning - Remsoft

The Optimum Road Network: Striking the Balance between Investment and Transportation Costs

By optimizing your forest and road assets within the same model, you can easily weigh the benefits of reducing transportation costs – and increasing the net value of your wood – against the capital cost of investing in road infrastructure.

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Climate Policy, Not Just Climate Change, Will Influence Future Forest Management

With a changing climate comes the need for changing forest management strategies. Researchers at University College Dublin are exploring what climate change means for future forest management.

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Northern Spotted Owl in Mount Rainier habitat. Wildlife conservation in forest management planning.

Managing Public and Commercial Interests: Washington State DNR Increases Spotted Owl Habitat and Net Present Value

Using GIS and optimization analytics, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources was able to earn more money in the short term and create a more suitable northern spotted owl habitat in the long term.

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Shared Intelligence Improves Forest Planning: Top ideas from Remsoft’s Australasia User Group Conference

As more technologies are adopted across the industry, connectivity is becoming increasingly important. Improved transparency and collaboration in the forest planning process are helping to increase efficiency and accuracy.

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Forest landscape in Latvia with tall conifers. Sustainable forestry management in the Baltic region.

Multi-level Forest Operations Planning and Optimization Saves Millions

Latvia’s State Forests, a European forest association, modeled their entire, complex supply chain to gain deeper financial insight and information that allowed them to make more informed and better contract negotiations.

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Coillte forest landscape in Ireland. Remsoft client using optimization for timber supply.

Connecting Boardroom Strategy to Forest Floor Reality

Coillte introduced collaborative technology to their field foresters to demonstrate the feasibility of their strategic model results. They operationalized scheduling for a large and scattered land base by creating a spatially coherent, tactical-level harvest plan from their long-term schedule.

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Increasing Productivity and Efficiency in Managing Complex Forest Resources

Supporting every aspect of timberland ownership, F&W Forestry Services used Remsoft technology to manage over two million acres in six countries, running optimization across ownerships in the United States, Brazil, Uruguay, and other areas of the world.

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