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Determining optimal timber harvest and fuel treatment on a fire-threatened landscape using approximate dynamic programming

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Lauer, Christopher Joseph

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Forest management in the face of fire risk is a challenging problem because fire spreads across a landscape and because its occurrence is unpredictable. Additionally, management must be adjusted over time as unpredictable fire events are realized. Land managers have some control over the vegetation conditions that facilitate fire spread,...

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driving these trends (Schmidt et. al. 2002, Donovan and Brown 2007). Figure 1.1 Fire suppression costs
The effects of increased supply and emerging technologies in the forest products industry on rural communities in the northwest U.S.

Creator:

Crandall, Mindy S.

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The development of a market for currently non-merchantable forest material, such as harvest residues of tops and limbs of trees or small diameter trees, has been suggested as a possible win-win solution that could: (i) provide a financial incentive to help motivate treatments to reduce wildfire risk or restore forest...

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challenged on scientific grounds, but proven remarkably slow to change (Donovan and Brown 2007; Egan 2009
Wildfire risk management : strategic interaction and spatial interdependence

Creator:

Busby, Gwenlyn M.

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In this dissertation, I examine how the spatial configuration of forest ownership influences the risk-mitigating behavior of public and private forestland owners over time. I determine whether or not the predicted equilibrium outcomes are socially optimal and, if not, whether the introduction of regulation, liability, or private insurance would lead...

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