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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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Economic Benefit from Allowing Wildfires to Burn in Federal East-Side Cascade Forests

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Gagnon, Aaron R.

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In this thesis I examine the question: can allowing a wildfire to burn this year result in a net positive economic gain? To answer this question I created 2,500 multiple sets of paired scenarios (called a fire of interest) which consist of ignitions, vegetation growth, and timber harvest over the...

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The effects of increased supply and emerging technologies in the forest products industry on rural communities in the northwest U.S.

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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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The impact of social capital on well-being in rural communities

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Harrison, Jane L.

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This study seeks to explore the relationship between social capital and well-being in the rural Western United States. Mixed methods were employed to understand the concepts from multiple angles, using both profile and process indicators. An econometric approach used profile indicators and relied on data from 414 counties in the...

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Land management with ecological and economic objectives : developing a production possibility set of wildlife species persistence and timber harvest value using simulated annealing

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Calkin, David E.

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An integrated model combining a wildlife population simulation model, and timber harvest and growth models was developed to explore the tradeoffs between the likelihood of persistence of a wildlife species and timber harvest values on a landscape in the Central Oregon Cascades. Simulated annealing, a heuristic optimization technique, was used...

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Tradeoffs associated with managing forested landscapes for multiple-uses

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Lichtenstein, Mark E.

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This study focuses on the tradeoffs that exist for managing forested landscapes for biodiversity and timber production. Tradeoff evaluation is important to natural resource managers so they can understand the benefits and costs of alternative management prescriptions. The study examines three watersheds in the Oregon Coast Range and 166 terrestrial...

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Masters Thesis
Optimizing spatial and temporal aspects of nature reserve design under economic and ecological objectives

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Nalle, Darek J.

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Alteration of natural areas in attempts to support increasing human populations has been a crucial yet less publicized contributor to the fall of many of the world's greatest civilizations, since healthy ecosystems can help maintain stable societies and economies. Given this unhappy fact and the ancient relationship between people and...

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Choosing efficient land allocations and forest management regimes for biodiversity

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Shunk, Neal J.

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Increasing rates of species imperilment and the loss of biological diversity in naturally functioning ecosystems can be directly linked to accelerated urban development and the conversion of natural habitats to satisfy the needs of man. In combating this loss of biodiversity, scientists and policy makers alike recognize the relevance of...

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Masters Thesis
Wildfire risk management : strategic interaction and spatial interdependence

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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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Spatially explicit inter-temporal forest management decision under the risk of fire

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Konoshima, Masashi

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This paper presents a framework for analyzing efficient spatial allocation of forest management efforts - fuel treatment and harvest - under the risk of fire. The framework integrates a fire behavior model and a spatially-explicit stochastic dynamic optimization model. I investigate the effects of spatial interaction across plots during forest...

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Academic Affiliation

Forest Resources4
Forest Engineering Resources and Management3
Applied Economics2
Economics1

Advisor

Montgomery, Claire A.10
Arthur, Jeffrey L.2
Albers, Heidi J.1

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Current results range from 2001 to 2018

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Sessions, John3
Wu, Junjie3
Arthur, Jeff2
Bailey, John D.2
Adams, Darius1
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Busby, Gwenlyn M.1
Calkin, David E.1
Crandall, Mindy S.1
Gagnon, Aaron R.1
Harrison, Jane L.1
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Current results range from 2000 to 2017

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2010-20194
2000-20096

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Forest Resources6
Applied Economics2
Economics1
Sustainable Forest Management1

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Doctoral7
Master's3

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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)7
Master of Science (M.S.)3

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application/pdf1

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English [eng][remove]10

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All rights reserved7

Non-Academic Affiliation

Oregon State University. Graduate School10

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No8

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Dissertation7
Masters Thesis3

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In Copyright7
Copyright Not Evaluated3

Subject

Biodiversity -- Oregon -- Benton County1
Community development -- Washington (State)1
Fire management -- Economic aspects -- Oregon -- Deschutes National Forest1
Fire management -- Mathematical models1
Forest biomass -- Economic aspects -- Northwest, Pacific1
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