"Timber residues are one potential feedstock that can contribute to meeting legal mandates for renewable electricity and liquid transportation fuels. Michigan's Upper Peninsula produces significant timber and could potentially supply timber residues as a bioenergy feedstock. Timberland ownership is concentrated in the hands of relatively few large firms and other entities. This thesis uses interviews with managers of the largest private and public timberland holdings in the Upper Peninsula to elicit how their managerial objectives affect managers' willingness to supply residues for chipping by loggers. A breakeven price analysis incorporating transport costs from commercial forest land generates a set of supply functions for timber residues within 100 road miles of two major pulp mills in the Central Upper Peninsula. Results from interviews indicate that residue supply will come from corporate, profit-driven firms, rather than from conservationist or publicly owned timberlands where amenity goals take precedence over timber residue supply. A breakeven price of
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