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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uncertainty in forest road hydrologic modeling and catchment scale assessment offorest road sediment yield

Creator:: Surfleet, Christopher G.
Abstract:: The goal of this study was to advance methods for assessment of forest road hydrologic response and sediment yield at a catchment scale. This research looked at the effect of soil depth estimation on the Distributive Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM), assessed the uncertainty and accuracy of hydrologic modeling of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ............................................................................................. 13 Determining the Best Technique for Estimating Soil Depths for Claire Creek ............. 15

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

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

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

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

Wildfire risk management : strategic interaction and spatial interdependence

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

Drivers and Impacts of a Recent Annual Grass Invasion: Ventenata dubia and Fire in the Inland Northwest

Creator:: Tortorelli, Claire M.
Abstract:: Biological invasions threaten native biodiversity, alter ecosystem function, and are a major cause of economic losses across the planet. The most impactful invaders alter disturbance regimes and initiate state shifts to outside the historical range of variability of the ecosystem. Concern for ecological and economic losses has prompted a rapid...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Claire M

From Microbes to Megafauna: The Ecology of Gut Microbiomes in Wild Herbivores

Creator:: Couch, Claire E.
Abstract:: All mammals host communities of commensal microbes in and on their bodies. Recent technological advances, combined with experimental studies in laboratory animals, are beginning to reveal the ubiquitous links between the gut microbiome and host disease, metabolism, immunity, and numerous other host functions. A new challenge of microbiome research is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Claire

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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.

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

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

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

Uncertainty in forest road hydrologic modeling and catchment scale assessment offorest road sediment yield

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

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

Wildfire risk management : strategic interaction and spatial interdependence

Drivers and Impacts of a Recent Annual Grass Invasion: Ventenata dubia and Fire in the Inland Northwest

From Microbes to Megafauna: The Ecology of Gut Microbiomes in Wild Herbivores

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