Systems Analysis in Forest Resources: Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium, held September 27–30, 2000, Snowmass Village, Colorado, U.S.A.

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Characterizing Historical Variability in Boreal Forest Fire Frequency: Implications for Fire and Forest Management....Pages 3-14
Comparing Potential Fuel Treatment Trade-Off Models....Pages 15-25
Supply Chain Modeling of Forest Fuel....Pages 27-33
Combining Simulation and Optimization for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Fuel Treatments for Four Different Fuel Conditions at Landscape Scales....Pages 35-46
Determining Forest Fuel Treatment Levels for the Bitterroot Front Using VDDT....Pages 47-59
Spatial Point Pattern Analysis of Lightning-Caused Forest Fires in the Boreal Forest Region of Ontario....Pages 61-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Simulating a Smokejumper Service Delivery System....Pages 71-79
An Approach to Optimizing Helicopter Logging Operations....Pages 81-86
Annual Harvest Planning Integrated with Crew Assignment and Transportation Planning....Pages 87-89
An Application of Combinatorial Optimization Heuristics to Timber Sale Scheduling Considering Distance Dependent Costs and Equipment Balancing Requirements....Pages 91-103
An Investigation of the Influence of Digital Elevation Model Inaccuracies on Terrain-Based Delineation of Drainage Networks....Pages 105-107
NETWORK 2000, a Program for Optimizing Large Fixed and Variable Cost Transportation Problems....Pages 109-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Cooperative Forest Planning Using Criteria, Indicators and Systems Analysis....Pages 123-125
Techniques for Assessing Relative Values for Multiple Objective Management on Private Forests....Pages 127-134
Structure-Based Management for the State of Oregon: An Application of Combinatorial Optimization Heuristics for Large-Scale Landscape Analysis....Pages 135-144
Applying TELSA to Assess Alternative Management Scenarios....Pages 145-154
A Decision Support System for Forest Ecosystem Management in Portugal....Pages 155-163
Linking Temporal-Optimization and Spatial-Simulation Models for Forest Planning....Pages 165-173
Improving Habitat for Species at Risk While Maintaining Timber Supply: The Umpqua Land Exchange Project....Pages 175-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
An Ecological Approach to Developing a Decision Support System for Forest Planning....Pages 185-205
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Assessing Forest-Management Strategies Through the Lens of Biodiversity: A Practical Case from Central-West Alberta....Pages 207-224
Sustaining Wildlife Populations in Productively Managed Forests....Pages 225-242
Designing Compact and Contiguous Reserve Networks under a Budget Constraint....Pages 243-247
Eight Heuristic Planning Techniques Applied to Three Increasingly Difficult Wildlife Planning Problems: A Summary....Pages 249-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Optimal Financial Management of the Yellow-Poplar/Oak Covertype in the Central Appalachians....Pages 261-268
Comparison of Heuristics for Spatially Constrained Natural Resource Management Problems....Pages 269-277
An Adjacency-Modeling Problem Based on Constructing Harvesting Areas....Pages 279-289
Estimating and Mapping Five Forest Attributes with Satellite Ancillary Data....Pages 291-304
General Equilibrium Analysis of Impacts of NAFTA and WTO on U.S. Forest Products Industries....Pages 305-314
Co-Integration of Timber and Financial Markets — Implications for Portfolio Selection....Pages 315-316
Estimating Wood Utilization Accounts and Input-Output Relations from International Forest Product Statistics....Pages 317-326
Back Matter....Pages 327-327