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Recent Consultancies by Blue Ox Forestry

  • Development of RILSIM, a software package to facilitate rapid financial analysis of reduced-impact logging. Click here for details on this free download for Windows-based computers.
  • Preparation of a book on log tracking technology (World Bank).
  • Evaluation of projects to promote reduced-impact logging (ITTO).
  • Comparative analysis of harvesting intensity and the production of forest residues in developing countries (FAO).
  • Environmental impact assessment of oil drilling on privately owned forest lands in in Argentina; expert witness in a lawsuit to recover damages from the oil company (eventually settled out of court to the advantage of the forest owners).
  • Assist the Center for International Forestry Research to develop a two-year research budget and the corresponding program of research (CIFOR).
  • Evaluation of a draft Code of Forest Practice for China (ILO and FAO).
  • Examination of logging operations in the Congo Basin to advise on revised practices needed to conform to sustainable-management guidelines (USAID and USDA Forest Service).
  • Preparation of sustainable forest management policies and prodedures for a timber company in the Republic of Congo, to assist the company in its efforts to become certified.
  • Review of a revised timber concession management program for Cambodia (World Bank).
  • Computer programming work for the Forest Engineering Department, Oregon State University: Spreadsheet software for development and analysis of timber harvesting budgets.
  • Technical editing, design, and layout for publication of five Forest Harvesting Case Studies (FAO).
Forest road in Gabon, Central Africa

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