Department of Forestry Forest Economics and Resource Management (FERM) Lab

Online Tools and Data

• ForCAST: Forest Carbon Assessment and Statutory Tracker

• Forest Carbon Calculator Tool 

• Woodshed maps for the Lake States Wood Product Industry

• Wildfire Probabilities and Mortality

Technical Reports

• Forest Products Industries’ Economic Contributions for Northeastern and Midwestern States  (March 2026): [Total 22 reports]
• Estimating the Environmental Impacts using Life Cycle Analysis of Wood-Based Thermal Energy Generation in Maryland. (December 2025)
• Estimating The Economic Impacts of Wood-Based Thermal Energy Generation in Maryland. (December 2025)
• Challenges in adopting Blockchain technology for forest product traceability. (October 2025)
• A Life Cycle Analysis of the Sawmilling Process of the Thompson Appalachian Hardwood Facility in Tennessee. (September 2025)
• Economic Contributions of Wood-based Biomass Power Generation Industries in the Northeast, Midwest, Virginia, Georgia, and California (September 2025): [Total 26 reports]
• Economic Feasibility of Mass Timber Manufacturing in Wisconsin: Assessing Feedstock, Cost Efficiency, and Economic Impacts (August 2025)
• Comparing State-Reported Stumpage Price Data in Michigan and neighboring States. (September 2024)
• Economic Tradeoffs in Timber Products Under Various Carbon Management Strategies for Maryland. (August 2024): Click here to access a peer-reviewed article in Forest Policy and Economics (2026)
• Economic Tradeoffs in Timber Products Under Various Carbon Management Strategies for Pennsylvania. (August 2024): Click here to access a peer-reviewed article in Forest Policy and Economics (2026)
• Feedstock availability for the Filer City power plant and its economic impact on the state. (May 2023): Click here to access a peer-reviewed article in Renewable Energy for expanded analysis (2025)

• Feedstock availability and economic contributions of a mass timber manufacturing plant in Michigan. (August 2022): Click here to access a peer-reviewed article in Forest Policy and Economics for expanded analysis (2024)