A Forest Management Evaluation System for Small Private Forest Landowners

When small private forest landowners have a need to address jointly economic and sustainability objectives, efficiency in both respects becomes important given limitations on the land, budget, time, and other resources that are available. The suite of forest management options available to a landowner may be vast and complex, therefore a tool to assist and inform their potential management activities can be of value. The eYield model was developed as an application (app) to assess forest management options on many different computing devices, from cellphones to desktop computers. Within eYield, a person can define a management situation, specify prices and costs for potential management actions, and receive economic, commodity production, and biological (tree volume, tree density) outcomes associated with different forest management scenarios.