Location: Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada
134 road segments
Updated October, 2012 by E. W. Richards. Contact [email protected]
Note: Timber volumes were artificially assigned and
may not represent the actual stand characteristics.
Data files:
All data is in the workbook ShulkellData.xlsx. Individual sheets are also available as text
files.
1. ShulkellStandData.txt
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Fields: Stand #,Area (acres),Ageclass,Site
Index, Road Link Required,Current Volume (cubic feet/Acre),Current
Volume (cubic metres/hectare),
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Stand # corresponds to GIS polygon id
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Ageclasses are 5-years
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Site index predicts volume growth (refer to maidata)
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Road Link required is a near access road that must be built before the
stand can be harvested , and corresponds to the GIS
line id.
2. Shulkell.roads.txt
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Fields: Road Link Number, Start Node, Endnode,
Length (m)
3. Shulkell.maidata.txt
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Data based on Nova Scotia yield data for softwoods, calculated from
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Fields: Index, land class, Ageclass of Max
Mai, Mean annual increment (cu ft/acre/yr) at each ageclass 1 - 22.
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Note: mean annual increments calculated for these stands and for this
region, simplified to assume all stands are softwood stands
4. Shulkell.VolumeProjected.txt
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1. Data is stand volume in cubic feet.
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2. All stands assumed to be 100% stocked.
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3. Ageclasses are five year periods.
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4. Data calculated by �Rachel St. John�
5. Shulkell.adj.txt
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This file contains the adjacent stand list for the forest. The first
entry in each line is the number of adjacencies, followed by the stand number,
followed by the list of adjacent stands.
GIS Data
FOREST.*, Mainroads.*, Roadlink.*
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These are ArcView GIS shapefiles - the project
file, the stands, the existing main roads, and the potential road segments that
could be constructed.
