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Cam, Emmanuelle; Nichols, James D.; Sauer, John R.; Hines, James E.; Flather, Curtis H. 2000. Relative species richness and community completeness: Birds and urbanization in the mid-Atlantic states. Ecological Applications. 10(4): 11961210.

Cam, Emmanuelle; Sauer, John R.; Nichols, James D.; Hines, James E.; Flather, Curtis H. 2000. Geographic analysis of species richness and community attributes of forest birds from survey data in the mid-Atlantic integrated assessment region. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 63(l): 81-94.

Cook, Rosamonde R.; Flather, Curtis H.; Wilson, Kenneth R. 2000. Faunal characteristics of the Southern Rocky Mountains of New Mexico: Implications for biodiversity analysis and assessment. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-58. Fort Collins, CO: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station: 55 p.

Loftus, Andrew J.; Flather, Curtis H. 2000. Fish and other aquatic resource trends in the United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-53. Fort Collins, CO: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station: 50 p.

Mitchell, J. E.; Louda, S. M.; Gillam, B. 1999. Background and synopsis: Symposium on the great plains grasslands at the millennium. Great Plains Research. 9(2): 211-222.

Shields, Deborah; Solar, Slavko. 1999. Applying indicators of sustainability to surface mining of construction aggregates. In: Fuchs, P. E. K.; Smith, M. R.; Arthur, M. J., eds. Proceedings of the 2nd Europe conference on mineral planning; 1999 October 04-07; Harrogate, United Kingdom. Nottingham, United Kingdom: The Institute of Quarrying: 279-291.

Solar, Slavko; Shields, Deborah J. 2000. The need for geology in sustainable development policies. In: lst International professional geology conference; 2000 July 10-12; Alicante, Spain. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: European Geologist: 134138.

Flather, Curtis H.; Sieg, Carolyn Hull. 2000. Applicability of Montreal process criterion I - Conservation of biological diversity - to rangeland sustainability. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. 7(2): 81-96.

Sieg, Carolyn Hull; Flather, Curtis H.; McCanny, Stephen. 1999. Recent biodiversity patterns in the Great Plains: Implications for restoration and management. Great Plains Research. 9(2): 277-313.

Bevers, M.; Flather, C. H. 1999. The distribution and abundance of populations limited at multiple spatial scales. Journal of Animal Ecology. 68(5): 976-987.

Bevers, Michael.; Flather, Curtis H. 1999. Numerically exploring habitat fragmentation effects on populations using cell-based coupled map lattices. Theoretical Population Biology. 55: 61-76.

Bevers, Michael.; Hof, John. 1999. Spatially optimizing wildlife habitat edge effects in forest management linear and mixed-integer programs. Forest Science. 45(2): 249-258.

Hof, John G.; Davies, S.; Baltic, T. 1999. Production functions for large-scale forest and range condition indicators. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 32(4): 295-308.

Hof, John G.; Flather, Curtis H.; Baltic, Tony J.; Davies, Stephen. 1999. National projections of forest and rangeland condition indicators: A technical documents supporting the 1999 USDA Forest Service RPA Assessment. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR442. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 57.

Shields, Deborah Joan. 1999. Book review of forest politics by David Humphreys. In: Resources Policy, Vol. 24, No. 2. 133-138.

Hof, John G.; Sieg, Carolyn Hull; Bevers, Carolyn Hull. 1999. Spatial and temporal optimization in habitat placement for a threatened plant: The case of the Western Prairie Fringed Orchid. Ecological Modelling. 115(1999): 61-75.

Spring, Daniel A. 1999. Optimal management of mountain ash forest for timber harvesting and wildlife conservation. A final research report prepared for:Environmental Australia, Environment Forest Taskforce, Project Number FN52, June 1999.

Shields, D. J. 1998. Nonrenewable resources in economic, social, and environmental austainability. Nonrenewable Resources. 7(4): 251-261.

Shields, D. J. 1998. Sustainability for nonrenewable resources: Alternative perspectives. Nonrenewable Resources. 7(4): 249-250.

Hof, John; Bevers, Michael. 1998. Spatial optimization for managed ecosystems. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 258 p.

Bevers, M. 1997. The need for spatial optimization in modeling and capability: A black-footed ferret case example. In: Diverse forests, abundant opportunities, and evolving realities: Proceedings of the 1996 Society of American Foresters Convention; 1996 November 09-13; Albuquerque, NM. Bethesda, MD: Society of American Foresters; SAP Publication 97-03. 332-337.

Bevers, Michael; Hof, John; Uresk, Daniel W.; Schenbeck, Gregory L. 1997. Spatial optimization of prairie dog colonies for black-footed ferret recovery. Operations Research. 45(4): 495-507.

Patton-Mallory, Marcia; Cramer, Steven M.; Smith, Frederick; Pellicane, Patrick W. 1997. Nonlinear material models for analysis of bolted wood connections. Journal of Structural Engineering. 123(8): 1063-1070.

Patton-Mallory, Marcia; Pellicane, Patrick J.; Smith, Frederick W. 1997. Modeling bolted connections in wood: Review. Journal of Structural Engineering. 123(8): 1054-1062.

Shields, D.J.; Kent, B.M.; Martin, W.E.; Wise, H.A. 1997. Incorporating stakeholder objectives in the forest planning process: In: Diverse forests, abundant opportunity, and evolving realities: Proceedings of the 1996 Society of American Foresters Convention; 1996 November 09-13; Albuquerque, NM. Bethesda, MD: Society of American Foresters; SAF Publication 97-03: 366-371.

Shields, Deborah J. 1997. An axiomatic approach to the problem of ecfuity in natural resource management. Colorado State University: Ph.D. Dissertation. 255 p.

Hof, John; Bevers, Michael; Kent, Brian. 1997. An optimization approach to area-based forest pest management over time and space. Forest Science. 43(i): 121-128.

Moore, David J.; Shields, Deborah J.; Tilton, John E. 1997. Economic growth and the demand for construction. In: McCarl, Henry N., ed. Proceedings of the Mineral Economics and Management Society Fifth Annual MEMS Professional Meeting. Birmingham, AL: Mineral Economics and Management Society: 73-85.

Shields, D.; Martin, W.; Tolwinski, B., Kent B. 1996. Application of social choice theory to U.S.D.A. Forest Service decision making. Journal of Policy Modeling. 18(6): 603-621.

Shields, D.; Todd, S.; Brown, D. 1996. Determining match probabilities between two mineral location databases using logistic regression. In: Proceedings of the 1996 GIS/LIS; 1996 November 19-12; Denver, CO. Bethesda, MD: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS): 421-434.

Shields, D.; Winter, S.; Alward, G.; Hartung, K. 1996. The energy and minerals industries in national, regional, and state economics. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-95. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory: 82 p.

Moore, David J.; Tilton, John E.; Shields, Deborah J. 1996. Economic growth and the demand for construction materials. Resources Policy. 22(3): 197-205.

Shields, Deborah J.; Brown, Douglas D.; Brown, Thomas C. 1995. Distribution of abandoned and inactive mines on National Forest System lands. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-260. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station: 195 p.

Baltic, Tony. 1996. Technology and the evolution of land ethics. In: Driver, B.L.; Dustin, Daniel; Baltic, Tony; Elsner, Gary; Peterson, George, comps., eds. Nature and the human spirit: Toward an expanded land management ethic. State College, PA/USA: Venture Publishing, Inc.: 263-278.

Driver, B.L.; Dustin, Daniel; Baltic, Tony; Elsner, Gary; Peterson, G.L. comps. eds... 1996. Nature and the human spirit: Toward an expanded land. State College, PA/USA: Venture Publishing, Inc. 488.

Hof, John; Bevers, Michael; Pickens, James. 1996. Chance-constrained optimization with spatially autocorrelated forest yields. Forest Science. 42 (1): 118-123.

Bevers, Michael. 1995. Mathematical programming methods for sustainable optimization of mobile renewable natural resources. Fort Collins, CO/USA: Colorado State University. 94. Ph.D. dissertation.

Bevers, Michael; Hof, John; Kent, Brian; Raphael, Martin G. 1995. Sustainable forest management for optimizing multispecies wildlife habitat: A coastal Douglas-Fir example. Natural Resource Modeling. 9 (1): 1-23.

Bevers, Michael; Kent, Brian. 1995. Forest regulation under deterministic equilibrium dynamics. In: Sessions, John; Brodie, J. Douglas, eds. Management systems for a global economy with global resource concerns: Proceedings of the 1994 Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources; 6-9 September 1994; Pacific Grove, CA/USA. Corvallis, OR/USA: College of Forestry, Oregon State University: 134-137.

Kent, Brian M.; Bevers, Michael; Sleavin, Katherine E.; Merzenich, James P.; Heiner, Jill; Turner, Matt. 1995. Operations guide for Forplan on microcomputers (release 14.2). Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-235. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 88 p.
(Additional author: Hall, Sarah B.)

Shields, Deborah J. 1995. Energy and minerals in the Southwest. In: Current regional issues: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah. Fort Worth, TX: Dryden Press: 43-48.

Shields, Deborah J. 1995. Petroleum production in the Southwest during the 1980's. In: Current regional issues: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah. Fort Worth, TX: Dryden Press: 49-56.

Shields, Deborah J.; Brown, Douglas D.; Brown, Thomas C. 1995. Distribution of abandoned and inactive mines on national forest system lands. In: Gen. Tech. Rep. R.Ni-260. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station: 195 p.

Hof, John; Bevers, Michael; Pickens, James. 1995. Pragmatic approaches to optimization with random yield coefficients. Forest Science. 41 (3): 501-512.

Shields, Deborah J.; Kent, Brian M.; Alward, Gregory S.; Gonzalez, Carlos. 1994. Economic, social, and ecological indices for natural resource sustainability evaluation. In: Making sustainability operational: Fourth Mexico/U.S. Symposium: Proceedings of the symposium.; 1993 April 19-23; Santa Fe, NM. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-240. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station: 14-20.

Shields, Deborah J.; Kent, Brian M.; Alward, Gregory S.; Gonzalez, Carlos. 1994. Modelling joint rural economy-ecosystem sustainability. In: Elbrond, Jorgen; Tang, Xiaoli, eds. Proceedings of the APCOM XXIV International Symposium on the Application of Computers and Operations Research in the Minerals Industries; 1993 October 31-November 3; Montreal, Quebec/Canada. Montreal, Quebec/Canada: Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum: 54-63.

Driver, B.L.; Kent, Brian; Hof, John G. 1994. A planning and analysis process for including social and biophysical considerations in sustainable ecosystem management. In: Covington, W. Wallace; DeBano, Leonard F., tech. coords. Sustainable ecological systems: implementing an ecological approach to land management.; 1993 July 12-15; Flagstaff, AZ. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-247. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station: 281-291.

Hof, John; Bevers, Michael; Joyce, Linda; Kent, Brian. 1994. An integer programming approach for spatially and temporally optimizing wildlife populations. Forest Science. 40 (1): 177-191.

Bevers, Michael; Kent, Brian. 1993. Land management planning analysis on the national forests: Evolving problems require changing techniques. In: Foresters together: Meeting tomorrow's challenges: Proceedings of the 1993 Society of American Foresters National Convention; 1993 November 7-10; Indianapolis, IN/USA. 94-01. Bethesda, MD/USA: Society of American Foresters: 327-332

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