BLM timber sale program data tracks planning through completion for western Oregon districts. Associated attributes include sale status, contractual references, environmental analysis, cutting methods, yarding methods, harvest volume, and green tree retention. The dataset is provided by the organization SCIOPS via NASA's Earthdata platform.
Use Cases
- Analyze relationships between cutting_methods, yarding_methods, and harvest_volume to optimize logging operations.
- Track sale_status over time to monitor program completion rates and bottlenecks.
- Assess environmental impact by correlating environmental_analysis references with green_tree_retention metrics.
- Model timber supply from public lands using harvest_volume and contractual attributes.
Strengths
- Covers the full timber sale lifecycle from planning to completion.
- Includes multiple operational dimensions: contractual, environmental, and harvest methods.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column count, and temporal coverage are unknown.
- Geographic coverage is limited to western Oregon districts, not statewide.
Provenance
- Source
- NASA Earthdata platform, originating from organization SCIOPS.
- Collection Method
- Administrative tracking for the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) timber sale program.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Western Oregon districts.