Past Research

Trapper Peak - Bitterroot National Forest

Timber Management
- Stumpage appraisal models and comparisons
- Stumpage rate adjustment
- TSPAS--timber sale planning and design software
- Unsold timber sales and salability
- Nontimber resources in timber sales
- Below cost timber sales
- Timber sales and ecosystem management
- Timber management costs
- Timber supply and harvest prediction
- TSPIRS--timber sale accounting
- Timber sale costs
- Sealed and oral bidding
- Nonindustrial forest owners
- CHEAPO II--a PROGNOSIS extension

Analytical Tools and Applications
- Number scales--use and abuse
- Proxy sets and regression analysis
- Apportioning joint costs
- Heuristic algorithms for discrete optimization
- Developing adjacency constraint formulations
- Addressing habitat elk in landscape models
- INVEST V--project analysis software
- IRAS--landscape analysis software
- Comparing analytical tools
- Analytical methods and tools
- Shift-share analysis and recreation trends
- Accounting transfers and wilderness use
- Nonmarket valuation
- Delphi to estimate relationships


Regional Development
- Economic impact analysis methods
- Accuracy of economic impact analysis
- Economic impacts of Yellowstone fires
- Special forest products industry
- Using IMPLAN for economic development
- Displaced forest industry workers
- Economic indicator maps
- PILT--payments in-lieu of taxes
- Revenue sharing
- Tax equivalency on federal lands
- Community attitudes and values
- Economic diversity
- Regional economic profiles

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