You plant once and harvest once a decade, so the returns are locked in by the small silvicultural calls made in between. A point of extra survival, a season of weed control, a millimetre of daily height: tracked over ten years, those are the levers that decide the crop.
The share of planted seedlings that establish and hold through to canopy closure, the foundation every later metric is built on.
Living stems standing per hectare at clearfall, how much of the planted density carried a merchantable stem to the mill.
Dominant top height by age, blue gum's headline growth trait, and the earliest read on site quality.
How evenly diameter is spread across the stand, a tight distribution means fewer suppressed stems and a cleaner harvest.
Total standing volume divided by stand age, the single number the whole rotation is planned around, and the one that sets the harvest date.
Merchantable stem volume accumulated per hectare, the raw stock the harvest converts into green tonnes.
Cross-sectional stem area per hectare, the density gauge that tells you whether the stand is fully using the site or crowding itself.
Where current annual growth falls back through the running average, mean increment culminates, the biologically optimal moment to clearfall.
How harvest volume splits across log grades, sawlog, pulpwood and residue. In a short-rotation pulp crop the premium sawlog fraction is small, and it sets the ceiling on long-term carbon storage.
Crown lost to Mycosphaerella and Teratosphaeria leaf blight, blue gum's chief growth thief, worst in the wet establishment years.
Standing crop lost to wildfire each year across the estate, the tail risk that a decade of growth is exposed to right up to harvest.
Young seedlings browsed by kangaroos and wallabies in the first summer, controllable, and cheap to fix compared with a replant.
The stall in stem growth through the hot, dry Mediterranean summer, deep-soil moisture is what carries the crop across it.
Everything it costs to put a green metric tonne on the mill weighbridge, your breakeven, independent of the export chip price.
The blended price your green tonnes actually earn at the mill or chip terminal, margin per tonne starts against your breakeven.
Rotation margin spread back across the years it took to grow, the annualised figure that lets forestry stand next to any other land use.
The discount rate at which the rotation's discounted costs and revenue break even, how forestry is judged against every other investment.
Carbon dioxide locked into standing biomass and roots over the rotation, a co-product the crop banks every year it grows.
Where the carbon in the harvested wood ends up, locked into long-lived timber, or in pulp and paper that releases it within a few years. Grade decides the split.
Wood volume grown per megalitre of rainfall used, the true measure of productivity in a catchment where every tree draws on the water balance.
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