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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,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Claire A. Montgomery Forest management in the face of fire risk is a challenging

Creator:: Crandall, Mindy S.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Claire A. Montgomery

Creator:: Harrison, Jane L.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: :_____________________________________________ Claire A. Montgomery This study seeks to explore the relationship between social

Creator:: Calkin, David E.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Timber Harvest Value Using Simulated Annealing Abstract approved: Claire A. Montgo An integrated model

Creator:: Nalle, Darek J.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Claire A r~mery "'-~"' Alteration of natural areas in attempts to support increasing human

Creator:: Busby, Gwenlyn M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Heidi J. Albers Claire A. Montgomery In this dissertation, I examine how the

Creator:: Konoshima, Masashi
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Claire A. Montgomery Jeffrey L. Arthur This paper presents a framework for analyzing efficient spatial

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