Natural Resource Assessment and Analysis

Staff/Personnel

John G. Hof, Ph.D.
Research Forester

jhof@fs.fed.us
(970) 295-5977 -- Fax: (970) 295-5959

John Hof has been a Research Forester (Economist/Management Scientist) with the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins since 1981. Before that, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida. His BS is in Recreation Resources from Colorado State University, his MA is in Economics from the University of New Mexico, and his PhD. is in Forest Economics from Colorado State University.

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Research Interests

• Economics of joint production
• Multilevel optimization
• Management of risk and uncertainty
• Analysis of forest and rangeland condition hotspots
• Spatial optimization
• Combining economic and ecological theory

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Educational Background

B.S. conferred: March, 1974, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Department: Recreation Resources, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Major: Outdoor Recreation

M.A. conferred: July, 1976, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM, Department: Economics, College of Arts and Sciences, Major: Economics
Master's Thesis: An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Oil and Natural Gas Price Decontrol on the State of New Mexico

Ph.D. conferred: May, 1979, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Department: Forest and Wood Sciences, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Major: Forest Economics and Management Science
Doctoral Dissertation: Projection and Valuation of Outdoor Recreation Use of Forest Lands.

Academic Honors:

• B.S. conferred with "High Distinction"
• WICHE sponsorship of undergraduate work
• Omicron Delta Epsilon, Honorary Economics Society, University of New Mexico chapter
• Xi Sigma Pi, Honorary Forestry Society, Colorado State University chapter
• Phi Kappa Phi, Honorary Society, Colorado State University chapter

Recent Awards:

"Eminent Scientific Contribution Award” for 2002, Rocky Mountain Research Station

USDA Certificate of Merit “In Appreciation for your Outstanding Contribution to the Leadership Team and Station as Acting Assistant Director for Research January-May, 2001” awarded May 29, 2001.

Certificate of Appreciation. “In Recognition of Outstanding Service to the Society of American Foresters as Forest Science Associate Editor for Operations Research, 1998-2001" awarded April, 2001.

USDA Certificate of Merit for "Contributions to the Development of the 2000 Renewable Resources Planning Act Assessment, Including the Resource Interactions Component ” awarded November 29, 2000.

USDA Certificate of Merit “For Your Extra Effort in serving as Acting Project Leader for RWU-4852” awarded May 18, 1998.

Selected Publications

Books

Hof, J. and M. Bevers. 2002. Spatial Optimization in Ecological Applications. Columbia University Press, New York, 257 p.

Hof, J. and M. Bevers. 1998. Spatial Optimization for Managed Ecosystems. Columbia University Press, New York, 258 p.

Hof, J. 1993. Coactive Forest Management. Academic Press, San Diego, 189 p.

Refereed Journal Articles

Hof, J. and P. Omi. 2003. Scheduling removals for fuel management.USDA Forest Service proceedings RMRS-P-29.

Hof , J., M. Bevers, D. W. Uresk and G. L. Schenbeck. 2002. Optimizing habitat location for black-tailed prairie dogs in southwestern South Dakota . Ecological Modelling 147:11-21.

Hof, J. and M. Bevers. 2001. A spatial linear program for optimally scheduling forest management to meet stormflow objectives. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 37(3):571-584.

Hof, J. and M. Bevers. 2000. Direct spatial optimization in natural resource management: Four linear programming examples. Annals of Operations Research 95:67-81.

Hof, J. and M. Bevers. 2000. Optimizing forest stand management with natural regeneration and single-tree choice variables. Forest Science 46(2):168-175.

Hof, J., P.N. Omi, M. Bevers, and R.D. Laven. 2000. A timing-oriented approach to spatial allocation of fire management effort. Forest Science 46(3):442-451.

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Hof , J. and M. Bevers. 2000. Optimal timber harvest scheduling with spatially defined sediment objectives. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30:1494-1500.

Hof , J. and M. Bevers. 2000. Linear approaches to spatial optimization. In: Society of American Foresters Seventh Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources, Bellaire, MI, May 28-31, 1997, pp. 14-21.

Hof, J., C. Flather, T. Baltic, and S. Davies. 1999. Projections of forest and rangeland condition indicators for a national assessment. Environmental Management 24(3):383-398.

Hof , J., C. H. Sieg and M. Bevers. 1999. Spatial and temporal optimization in habitat placement for a threatened plant: the case of the western prairie fringed orchid. Ecological Modelling 115:61-76.

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

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Hof, J., S. Davies, and T. Baltic. 1998. Production functions for large-scale forest and range condition indicators. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 32(4): 295-308.

Hof, J. 1998. Optimizing spatial and dynamic population-based control strategies for invading forest pests. Natural Resource Modeling 11(3): 197-216.

Hof, J., M. Bevers, and B. Kent. 1997. An optimization approach to area-based forest pest management over time and space. Forest Science 43(1): 121-128.

Bevers, M., J. Hof, D. Uresk, and G. Schenbeck. 1997. Spatial optimization of prairie dog colonies for black-footed ferret recovery. Operations Research 45(4): 495-507.

Hof, J. and M.G. Raphael. 1997. Optimization of habitat placement: A case study of the northern spotted owl in the olympic peninsula. Ecological Applications 7(4): 1160-1169.

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Hof, J. and C. Flather. 1996. Accounting for connectivity and spatial correlation in the optimal placement of wildlife habitat. Ecological Modelling 88:143-155.

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

Bevers, M., J. Hof, B. Kent, and M. G. Raphael. 1996. Sustainable forest management for optimizing multispecies wildlife habitat: A coastal Douglas-fir example. Natural Resource Modeling 9(1):1-23.

Bevers, M., J. Hof, and C. Troendle. 1996. Spatially optimizing forest management schedules to meet stormflow constraints. Water Resources Bulletin 32(5):1007-1015.

Hof, J., M. Bevers, and J. Pickens. 1995. Pragmatic approaches to optimization with random yield coefficients. Forest Science 41(3): 501-512.

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Hof, J., M. Bevers, L. Joyce, and B. Kent. 1994. An integer programming approach for spatially and temporally optimizing wildlife populations. Forest Science 40(1):177-191.

Hof, J. 1994. Book Review of "Forestry and the Environment: Economic Perspectives." Forest Ecology and Management 67:355-356.

Hof, J. G. and M. G. Raphael. 1993. Some mathematical programming approaches for optimizing timber age class distributions to meet multi-species wildlife population objectives. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23:828-834.

Hof, J. G. and D. Rideout. 1993. A probabilistic approach to joint cost allocation in public projects. Public Finance Quarterly 21(4):399-414.

Hof, J. G. and L. A. Joyce. 1993. A mixed integer linear programming approach for spatially optimizing wildlife and timber in managed forest ecosystems. Forest Science 39(4):816-834.

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Hof, J. G. and D. A. King. 1992. Recreational demand by tourists for saltwater beach days: Comment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 22:281-291.

Hof, J. G., B. M. Kent, and J. B. Pickens. 1992. Chance constraints and chance maximization with random yield coefficients in renewable resource optimization. Forest Science 38(2):305-323.

Hof, J. G. and L. A. Joyce. 1992. Spatial Optimization for Wildlife and Timber in Managed Forest Ecosystems. Forest Science 38(3):489-508.

Mendelsohn, R., J. Hof, G. Peterson, and R. Johnson. 1992. Measuring recreation values with multiple destination trips. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74(4):926-933.

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Hof, J., B. Kent, and T. Baltic. 1992. An iterative multilevel approach to natural resource optimization: a test case. Natural Resource Modeling 6(1):1-22.

Hof, J. and T. Baltic. 1991. A Multilevel Analysis of Production Capabilities of the National Forest System (Summary). OR/MS Today, June, p. 59.

Pickens, J. B. and J. G. Hof. 1991. Fuzzy aspects of forestry harvest scheduling models. International Journal for Fuzzy Sets and Systems 44:469-470.

Pickens, J. B. and J. G. Hof. 1991. Fuzzy goal programming in forestry: an application with special solution problems. International Journal for Fuzzy Sets and Systems 39:239-246.

Hof, J. and T. Baltic. 1991. A multilevel analysis of production capabilities on the National Forest System. Operations Research 39(4):543-552.

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Pickens, J. B., J. G. Hof, and B. M. Kent. 1991. Use of chance-constrained programming to account for stochastic variation in the A-matrix of large-scale linear programs: A forestry application. Annals of Operations Research 31:511-526.

Hof, J. G. and J. B. Pickens. 1991. Chance-constrained and chance-maximizing mathematical programs in renewable resource management. Forest Science 37(1):308-325.

Hof, J. G. and B. M. Kent. 1990. Nonlinear programming approaches to multistand timber harvest scheduling. Forest Science 36(4):894-907.

Hof, J. G. and T. J. Baltic. 1990. Cost effectiveness from regional optimization in the USDA Forest Service. Forest Science 36(4):939-954.

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Hof, J., D. Rideout, and D. Binkley. 1990. Carbon fixation in trees as a microoptimization process: An example of combining ecology and economics. Ecological Economics 2:243-256.

Hof, J. G. and Richard C. Field. 1989. True separable costs versus accounting-based separable costs in multiple use forestry. Forest Science 35(1):263-270.

Hof, J. and D. Rideout. 1989. Limitations of the with and without principle in benefit cost analysis. Public Finance Quarterly 17(2):216-226.

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Hof, J. G., K. S. Robinson, D. R. Betters. 1988. Optimization with expected values of random yield coefficients in renewable resource linear programs. Forest Science 34(3):634-646.

Hof, J. G. and J. B. Pickens. 1987. A pragmatic multilevel approach to large-scale renewable resource optimization: a test case. Natural Resource Modeling 1(2):245-264.

Rideout, D. and J. G. Hof. 1987. Cost sharing in multiple use forestry: a game theoretic approach. Forest Science, 33(1): 81-88.

Rideout, D. and J. G. Hof. 1987. Allocating joint costs in applied forestry. Western Journal of Applied Forestry, 2(2):45-48.

Hof, J. G. and D. H. Rosenthal. 1987. Valuing the opportunity cost of travel time in recreation demand models: an application to aggregate data. Journal of Leisure Research 19(2):174-188.

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Hof, J. G. and R. C. Field. 1987. On the possibility of using joint cost allocation in forest management decision making. Forest Science 33(4):1033-1046.

Hof, J. G. and J. B. Loomis. 1986. A note on marginal valuation of underpriced facilities. Public Finance Quarterly 14(4): 2489-498.

Hof, J. G., R. K. Marose, and D. A. King. 1986. Potential pitfalls in renewable resource decision making that utilizes convex combinations of discrete alternatives. Western Journal of Agricultural Economics 10(2):391-400.

Rideout, D. and J. G. Hof. 1986. A re-evaluation of the site burden concept when forest land value is maximized. Forest Science 32(2):511-516.

Hof, J. G., J. B. Pickens, and E. T. Bartlett. 1986. A MAXMIN approach to nondeclining yield timber harvest scheduling problems. Forest Science 32(3):653-666.

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King, D. A. and J. G. Hof. 1985. Experiential commodity definition in recreation travel cost models. Forest Science 31(2):519-529.

Hof, J. G., R. D. Lee, A. A. Dyer, and B. M. Kent. 1985. An analysis of joint costs in a managed forest ecosystem. Journal of Environ-mental Economics and Management 12(4):338-352.

Hof, J. G. and H. F. Kaiser. 1983. "Long-term outdoor recreation participation projections for public land management agencies," Journal of Leisure Research 15(1):1-14.

Hof, J. G. 1983. "Comparing management alternatives with low and high energy input levels for Florida slash pine plantations." Forest Science 29(1):78-84.

Dyer, A. A., J. G. Hof, J. W. Kelly, G. S. Alward, and S. A. Crim. 1983. Implications of goal programming in forest resource allocation: a reply. Forest Science 29(4):837-840.

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Hof, J. G. and D. A. King. 1983. On the necessity of simultaneous recreation demand equation estimation: reply. Land Economics 59(4):459-460.

Hof, J. G. and J. B. Loomis. 1983. A recreation optimization model based on the travel cost method. Western Journal of Agricultural Economics 8(1):76-85.

Hof, J. G. and D. A. King. 1982. "On the necessity of simultaneous recreation demand equation estimation." Land Economics 58(4):547-552.

Dyer, A. A. and J. G., Hof. January 1980. "Recreation benefits and applied benefit-cost analysis: a rejoinder," Journal of Forestry, 78:25.

Dyer, A. A.; J. G. Hof, J. W. Kelly, S. A. Crim, and G. S. Alward. 1979. "Implications of goal programming in forest resource allocation," Forest Science, 25:535-543.

Dyer, A. A. and J. G. Hof. March 1979. "Comment on benefit-cost analysis for appraisal of recreation alternative," Journal of Forestry, 77:147-148.

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Professional Affiliations

• Society of American Foresters
• International Association for Landscape Ecology

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