consulting reports
Major Consulting Reports (Public clients)
Clearcutting as a Management Tool in Maine Forests. Maine Department of Conservation. 1988. (Reprinted in 1993.)
Reports to Northern Forest Lands Study. USDA Forest Service. Case studies, regional real estate market, and overview. 1989. Overview published as App. D of Northern Forest Lands Study.
Assessment of Adequacy of Supply and Analysis of Long-Term Timber Sale Areas Elimination. Tongass National Forest. Report to USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region. 299 pp. + app. Dec. 1991.
AFC Forest Resources Research Committee. Forestry Research for the 1990's: Industry's suggested priorities. Author and editor on behalf of industry committee. 1993. 40 pp.
Irland Group, Timber Demand Scenarios for Tongass National Forest, 1991-2010. Report to Alaska Region, USDA Forest Service 1992. 73 pp. + app.
Irland Group, Economic Impact of Forest Resources in Northern New England and New York. Report to Northeastern Forest Alliance. 65 pp. + app. Later issued as separate state booklets by NEFA.
Irland and Popkin, Assessment of Pricemaking Forces in the U.S. Softwood Lumber Markets. Report to AFPA, Washington, D.C. 2 vols. April 1993.
Irland Group, Condition and Outlook for Maine's Spruce-Fir Forest. Augusta: Maine Pulp and Paper Association. Feb. 24, 1996. 30 pp.
Pan Atlantic Consultants and The Irland Group, Maine logging industry and the bonded labor program: an economic analysis. Report to Maine Dept. of Labor. Nov. 9, 1999, 254 pp. http://www.state.me.us/doc/mfs/pubs.htm
Jon Goldstein, L. Irland, J. A. Senick, and E. W. Bassett. 2005. The inter-generational supply of loggers under conditions of declining economic well-being. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society. 44(2): 331-340. (Paper from data in PAC study cited above).
Irland and Cline, Role of northeastern forests and wood products in carbon sequestration. Report to Northeast Regional Biomass Program/CONEG. 1998. Washington, DC. On web at http://www.nrbp.org.
Irland Group, Wood flows in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, 1997 with recommended monitoring system. Report to NEFA, Inc., Concord, NH. 77 pp. On web at http://www.nefainfo.org/publications/woodflows97.exe
Irland Group, Forestry operations and water quality in the Northeastern States... Report to NCASI, Tech. Bull. 820. 2001. 109 pp.
Irland and Rice, Hardwood log exports from selected northeastern states to Canada. Report to USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Marketing Lab, Princeton, WV. March 23, 2001, 108 pp. Processed.
Irland Group. Forest industry and landownership in the northern forest: economic forces and outlook. Report to Open Space Institute. June 30, 1999, 65 pp. Processed.
Irland Group. Review of availability and accuracy of information about forests. Report to Minnesota Forest Resources Council. April 10, 2001, 160 pp.
Irland Group with Seneca Economics and Main Street Economics. Forest production, industry and retention assessment. Final Report to Maryland Agro-Ecology Center, Wye, Maryland. MCAE Pub. 2004-1. February 2004.
Irland (contributing author). Timber, fuel, and fiber. In: R. Neil Sampson. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Chapter 10.
Assessment of the impact of changing forest landownership in northern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine on biodiversity. We are subcontractors to the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences on this project. For this work, we are developing a large database of transactions in the region, and assisting in determining how these ownership changes are affecting land management practices. For the report, Changing Timberland Ownership in the Northern Forest and its implications for biodiversity, see http://www.manometmaine.org