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Unit 7 - Cost Factors in Harvesting Woody Biomass
Introduction
Harvesting, transportation, and delivery costs for woody biomass vary due to tract size, tree species, volumes removed, distance to the wood-using/storage facility, terrain, road condition, and other considerations.  Within the southern United States, there is tremendous variation in all of these factors, thus timber harvesting, transportation, and delivery systems must be designed to meet constraints at the local level.  This unit provides a brief explanation of factors effecting costs for harvesting, transporting, and delivering woody biomass.

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