Forestland Investment Analysis & Appraisals
Project: Merzenich Timber Appraisal
Client: The Nature Conservancy
Date: April – June 2010
Services Provided: IRM Completed a timber appraisal on a 900-acre ownership in Linn County, Oregon.
Project: Crazy Johnson Harvest Feasibility Study
Client: Columbia Land Trust
Date: June and December 2009
Services Provided: The possibilities for restoring old growth structure in coastal second growth forestland was examined in this project. The Crazy Johnson ownership contains some of the most productive Chum salmon spawning ground in Washington. Silvicultural prescriptions and a harvest design for mature red alder was developed in this area bound by highly sensitive riparian habitat, and steep and erosive and unstable slopes. The design involved small patch cut openings, road decommissioning, helicopter-yarding and planting of Western redcedar, Western hemlock and Sitka spruce.
Project: Farmer Appraisal
Client: Dan Farmer
Date: January – April 2008
Services Provided: IRM was hired by the Farmer family, of Philomath, Oregon, to conduct an appraisal of their 195-acres of timberland. After the property was mapped and delineated into stands of similar timber types, variable radius non-permanent plots were installed to take measurements on the standing timber. Because the appraisal was supposed to assess the value of the forest a year prior to the actual cruise, the diameters and heights of the trees were discounted one year through regressions by species and size. The results were utilized in setting up a family trust as well as guiding future management actions.
Project: Beaver Creek Grade Cruise
Client: Oregon State Parks and Recreation
Dates: March – May 2007
Services Provided: Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation hired Forest Restoration, Inc. to cruise and appraise a 323-acre ranch/forest for possible conservation easement. Eighty-three plots were installed. Some were grade cruise, regeneration stands were fixed-area plot cruised, and pastures were 100% cruised. Logs were graded based on the Columbia River Log Grading and Scaling Bureau’s standards, and sorts were determined by us based on local log markets. Young stands were grown into the future, and a dollar value was placed on each stand by pond value of sorts, minus logging , hauling, and administration costs, before taking the net present value of each stand
Project: Island Lake Appraisal
Client: Columbia Land Trust, Klickitat Washington
Date: April 2004
Services Provided: IRM completed a timberland appraisal on 221-acre parcel in Grays County, Washington. Integrated Resource Management created ortho-rectified photos, developed GIS layers of stand types, roads and resource buffers. A forest inventory was designed and completed using FPS. This complex appraisal had to assess the effect on timber values due to federal and state rules protecting endangered species and wetlands.
Project: Compton Property Appraisal
Client: Compton Family, Douglas County, OR
Date: February 2004
Services Provided: IRM completed a timberland appraisal on 102-acre parcel in Douglas County, Oregon. Integrated Resource Management developed GIS layers of stand types, roads and resource buffers, completed a grade cruise and produced an appraisal report.
Project: EENW Timber Cruise and Appraisal
Client: EENW Investment Inc. Portland, OR
Date: January 2001
Services Provided: Completed timberland appraisal on 3,000-acre parcel in Lincoln County, Oregon. Integrated Resource Management created ortho-rectified photos, developed GIS layers of stand types, roads and resource buffers. A forest inventory was designed and completed using FPS. Integrated Resource Management developed a harvest schedule programmed to maximize present net value in FPS to value timberland resources.
Project: Forest Appraisal for Bolte Tract
Client: Bolte Tract Philomath, OR
Date: November 2000
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management completed a timber cruise and timberland appraisal on 250-acre tract in Benton County, Oregon.
Project: Rocking C Ranch Timber Cruise and Appraisal Riparian Permanent Plots
Client: Rocking C Ranch, LLC Drain, OR
Date: October - November 2000
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management conducted a stumpage appraisal for a 7,000 acre private ownership south of Eugene, Oregon. This project involved stand typing, GIS, cruising, and appraisal services.
Project: Forest Appraisal for the Berg family forest
Client: Helen Berg Corvallis, OR
Date: April 2000
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management completed a timber cruise and timberland appraisal on 120 acre tract in Benton County, Oregon.
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