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

    Creator:
    Lauer, Christopher Joseph
    Abstract:
    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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    Dissertation
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    : ______________________________________________________ Claire A. Montgomery Forest management in the face of fire risk is a challenging

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

    Creator:
    Gagnon, Aaron R.
    Abstract:
    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...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Claire A. Montgomery In this thesis I examine the question: can allowing a wildfire to burn

  • Choosing efficient land allocations and forest management regimes for biodiversity

    Creator:
    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
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    Emmy-like acceptance, I will attempt to be brief. I would like to first thank Claire Montgomery for