Funded Research Projects: Sustainable Resource Management

The Sustainable Resource Management (SRM) interest group focuses on developing an integrated set of skills that concentrates on silvicultural principles and practices, business management and quantitative methods, and operations research. Field Trip at Young Plantation
 
Urban natural resources stewardship: Geospatial data assessment and management

Biofuel collection module development

Building a web-based interface to the Restoration Silviculture Initiative

Bureau of Land Management participation in the Stand Management Cooperative

Calibrating the windthrow triangle for riparian management in Western Washington

Carbon trading and the potential impact on the Tongass National Forest

Center for International Trade in Forest Products (2009-2010)

Completion of the Washington State Forestland Dataset and Family Forest Dataset

Developing a management plan for the Long Island Unit of the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge

Development of a LiDAR-driven forest inventory protocol

Discriminating metrics in high-volume forests: what is missing in stands with low WOGH1 scores?

Dynamic reserve selection: Modeling the land price feedback effect in strategic land retentions in Western Washington

Establishing usefulness of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) for silviculture modeling

Fire reduction and carbon offset decision support

Forest products trade between Japan and China and its effect on Alaska

Fusion of LiDAR and imagery for estimating canopy fuel metrics in Eastern Washington forests

Integrated dynamic modeling of ecosystem services, incentive-based policies, land-use decisions, and ecological outcomes

International shipping for Alaskan sawmills

Landscape Management System (LMS) for WA Department of Natural Resources

Landscape Management System (LMS): Computer software training for forest health and conservation

Report on threats to Western private forests

Riparian adaptive management: A symposium on testing assumptions with knowledge gained, identifying remaining uncertainties

River food web response to riparian zone management

Spatial analysis of recreational impacts in Mount Rainier National Park

Stand Management Cooperative

Sun tree identification in tree lists of mult-strata stands

Terrestrial LiDAR dynamic monitoring of leaf area index change in intensely managed forest types of the Pacific Northwest

The feasibility and expected performance of the ECOSEL auction mechanism to evaluate and sell forest ecosystem services

Utilization of Alaska logs and cants in China and Japan

Vegetation composition, succession, and understory diversity in managed ecosystems

WA Department of Health parcel database development, Phase II