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The Ecologically
Sustainable Production of Forest Resources (ESP) team
is an interdisciplinary group that conducts research on the
technical characteristics
of forest products and the analysis, design, and implementation
of forest management activities. We consider the costs associated
with implementing treatments as well as the potential revenue
and social benefits derived from forest products. We conduct
analyses of how different types of management activities,
including wildland fuel prescriptions, alter forest structure
in the Western United States and what this means in terms
of sustaining different ecological, economic, and social
functions through time.
Team Members:
- Dennis Dykstra, Research Forest Products Technologist
- Geanne Hill, Data Entry Technician
- Susan Stevens Hummel, Research Forester
- Eini Lowell, Research Forest Products Technologist
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- Evaluate the influence of stand treatments on the quality
and quantity of forest products.
- Determine the feasibility of financing ecosystem restoration
activities through removal of forest products.
- Characterize the forest resources at different geographic
scales.
- Provide information and technology to aid resource managers
in understanding impacts of forest management on an array
of forest products.
- Improve understanding of changing timber characteristics,
processing technology, product standards, or measurement systems
on product recovery of western tree species.
- Improve understanding of changing timber characteristics,
processing technology, product standards, or measurement
systems on product recovery of Western tree species.
- Examine
how social functions affect the ways that communities
and local businesses engage
with the forest to affect their socioeconomic well-being.
- Better understand societal values related to ecological
functions and wood products.
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