Annual Monitoring of US Timber Production: Rationale and Design

Understanding roundwood production in the United States at fine spatial and temporal scales is needed to support a range of analyses for decision making. Currently, estimates of county-level roundwood production are available at various time intervals for different regions of the country and for dif...

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Published in:Forest science 2018-09, Vol.64 (5), p.533-543
Main Authors: Coulston, John W, Westfall, James A, Wear, David N, Edgar, Christopher B, Prisley, Steven P, Treiman, Thomas B, Abt, Robert C, Smith, W Brad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agriculture
Censuses
Climate change
Decision analysis
Decision making
Design
Emerging markets
Estimates
Flexibility
Forest products
forests
Harvest
Inventory
markets
Monitoring
probability
Random sampling
Remote sensing
Research centers
roundwood
Sampling
Sampling designs
Statistical sampling
Sustainability
Timber
timber production
United States
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Summary:Understanding roundwood production in the United States at fine spatial and temporal scales is needed to support a range of analyses for decision making. Currently, estimates of county-level roundwood production are available at various time intervals for different regions of the country and for different products. Here we present our reasoning for moving to an annual timber products monitoring program and further present a comparison of sample designs to facilitate an annual program without increased effort. We found that both probability proportional to size and stratified simple random sampling designs were viable options, but the stratified simple random sampling design provided more flexibility. This flexibility was deemed important to target emerging markets and to enable sampling with certainty of specific firms. Our results lay the foundations for moving to an annual timber products output monitoring design in support of market, sustainability, and policy analyses as well as projections.
ISSN:0015-749X
1938-3738
1938-3738
DOI:10.1093/forsci/fxy010