Forest income and value
Compare returns from forest management.
Compare the financial case for inventory-led decisions, forest-health management and wind-damage recovery.
Inventory → treatment choice → future timber value
Compare thinning options and future timber value.
Inventory helps a forester compare stands and plan a thinning. Better tree selection can improve the value left growing for the final harvest.
Use volume and species layers to plan field assessment, then have a forester select trees for thinning.
Illustrative area, not a mapped holding. Scale the study result only to acres suited to the same treatment.
Optional, additional to costs already in the study. Enter a current evaluation or data quote. Unentered costs remain unknown.
Additional discounted return
$2,500
Published difference: $25.00 per treated acre
Net present value at a 5% discount rate, before additional evaluation costs. This is a rotation-level difference, not annual cash income.
- Marked thinning, NPV
- $94,100
- Operator-selected thinning, NPV
- $91,600
- Additional value
- $2,500
- Additional evaluation costs
- Not entered
The study difference leaves $25.00 per treated acre for additional costs before the incremental benefit is exhausted.
Review the opportunity on your land ↗A north Florida study of three pine stands reports NPV of $941/acre for marked thinning and $916/acre for operator selection, a $25 difference. The calculator scales that published comparison; it does not claim remote sensing caused the gain.
Research example, not a measured Linda customer outcome. Keep the study’s forest type, treatment, prices and discount rate in view. Data identifies where to investigate; the management action produces the return.
These are separate comparisons with different time horizons. Do not add them into a total ROI or count the same trees twice.