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Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources

Dr.Mike Clutter

Dr. Mike Clutter

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Contact Information

  • Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
  • Athens, Georgia
  • Room:4-529
  • Phone:706.542.5448
  • Fax:706.542.8356
  • Mobile:706.540.4570
  • mclutter@warnell.uga.edu

Education

BSFR Mississippi State University 1981

MFR University of Georgia 1983

PHD University of Georgia 1991

Area of Specialization

Forest Finance; Forest Products Industry Structure; Capital Budgeting in the Forest Products Industry

Courses Taught

Forestry

  • FORS 4710 / 6710 Quantitative Methods in Forest Resources Management
  • FORS 4730 Senior Project in Forest Resources
  • FORS 5930 Communications for Natural Resource Managers
  • FORS 7630 Intensive Forest Management
  • FORS 7780 Forest Finance, Accounting and Taxation
  • FORS 7790 Forest Finance Decision-Making
  • FORS 7900 Forest Operations Management

Finance (in the Terry College of Business)

  • FINA 3000 Introduction to Corporate Finance
  • FINA 4200 Theory of Corporate Finance
  • FINA 4210 Applied Corporate Finance
  • FINA 7100 Corporate Finance (MBA)

Research Interests

The Changing Landscape of Private Timberland Ownership in the South. The impacts of changing forest industry structure on timberland ownership and objectives

The Use of Capital Budgeting techniques by Timber and Timberland investors

The Application of Growth and Yield Techniques to Coarse Scale Inventory Projection: An application to the Sub-Region Timber Supply Model (SRTS)

Recent Publications

Clutter, M. L. and D. M. Hyink. 1991. Establishing Cause - Effect Relationships Using Forest Survey Data - Discussion. Forest Science 37(6): 1497-1512.

Borders, B. E., W. D. Greene, and M. L. Clutter. 1991. Variable bedding, planting, harvesting, and transportation costs impact optimal economic management regimes. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry. 15(1): 38-43.

Lynch, T. B. and M. L. Clutter. 1998. A System of Equations for Prediction of Plywood Veneer Total Yield and Yield by Grade for Loblolly Pine Plywood Bolts. Forest Products Journal 48(5): 80-88.

Lynch, T. B. and M. L. Clutter. 1999. Predicting Loblolly Pine Plywood Bolt Grade with a Multinomial Logit Model. Forest Products Journal 49(5): 56-61.

Green, E. J. and M. L. Clutter. 2001 Using auxiliary information to estimate stand-tables. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 30: 1 – 8.

Green, E. J. and M. L. Clutter, 2002. Estimating tree diameter class frequencies. Ecological Modeling. 147: 1 – 9.

J. L. Smith, M. L. Clutter, and B. Keefer. 2003. The Future of Digital Remote Sensing. Forest Science. 49(3) 455 – 458.

Ciesewski, C. J., M. Zasada, R. Lowe, B. E. Borders, M. L. Clutter, and R. F. Daniels. 2003. Long-term sustainability analysis of fiber supply in Georgia. Forest Ecology and Management. 187(2-3): 345 - 359

Kellndorfer J. M., J. Vona, M. L. Clutter, and M. Dobson. 2003. Toward precisions forestry: plot-level parameter retrieval for slash pine plantations with JPL AIRSAR. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 41(7): 1571-1583.

Rose, C. E. Jr., M. L. Clutter, B. D. Shiver, D. B. Hall, and B. E. Borders. 2004. A generalized methodology for developing whole-stand survival models. Forest Science 50(5) 686 – 695.

Ulmer J., W. D. Greene, M. L. Clutter, and J. Mayo. 2004. Consistency ratings for assessing the impact of variations in mill demand on logging crew production and cost. Forest Products Journal 54(7/8): 57-63.

Hall, D. B., and M. L. Clutter. 2004. Nonlinear mixed effects models for forest growth and yield prediction. Biometrics 60-1: 16 – 24.

Kellndorfer, J., W. Walker, L. Pierce, M.C. Dobson, J. Fites, C. Hunsaker, J. Vona, and M. L. Clutter. 2004. Vegetation height estimation from shuttle radar topography mission and national elevation datasets. Remote Sensing of the Environment. 2004(3) 972 – 996.

Conradie, I., W. D. Greene, and M. L. Clutter. 2004. The impact of a mill policy to discourage overweight log trucks. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 28(2): 132 – 136.

Borders, B. E., B. D. Shiver, and M. L. Clutter. 2005. Timber inventory of large acreages using stratified two-stage list sampling. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry. 29(3): 152 – 157.

Rose, C. E. Jr., D. B. Hall, B. D. Shiver, M. L. Clutter, and B. E. Borders. 2006. A multilevel approach to individual tree survival prediction. Forest Science. 52(1) 31 – 43.

Selected Presentations

Clutter, M. L. 1990. Use of Forest Survey Data to Establish Cause - Effect Relationships. Presented at the Annual Association of Southern University Biometricians Conference, Blacksburg, VA, August 1990.

Clutter, M. L. 1992. Current and Future Forest Measurements Issues in Southern Industrial Forestry. Presented at the Twenty-fifth Annual Midwest Mensurationists Meeting, Mackinaw Island, Michigan, September 1992.

Clutter, M. L. 1992. Current and Future Forest Measurements Issues in Southern Industrial Forestry. Presented at the Technical Session of the Society of American Foresters. Richmond Virginia, October 1992.

Clutter, M. L. 1994. Opportunities to incorporate alternative sampling designs and data in FIA techniques. United States Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis Workshop. New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1994.

Clutter, M. L. 1995. Intensive Silviculture Opportunities in Southern Pine and Hardwood Plantation Management. University of Georgia Alumni College. Athens Georgia, December 1995.

Clutter, M. L. 1995. Defining stand adjacency in industrial forest resource planning. NCASI Symposium on Forest Resources Planning Issues. Mobile, Alabama, September 1995.

Clutter, M. L. 1996. Intensive Silviculture in Southern Pine Plantations - Growth Responses and Financial Performance. Southeastern Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting. Albany, Georgia, September 1996.

Clutter, M. L. 1997. Intensive Silviculture in Southern Pine Plantations - Is Four Cords per Acre per Year Possible. Presented at the University of Florida Annual Spring Symposium, Gainesville Florida, May 1997.

Clutter, M. L.. 1999. Corporate Entity Structure and It’s Impact on Forest Profitability – A Focus on The Timber Company. Keynote Panel Presentation and Discussion. Southern Forest Economics Annual Meeting. Biloxi, Mississippi, June 1999.

Clutter, M. L. 2001. Some comments on the use of ancillary information in estimating tree diameter class frequencies. Proceeding of the Midwest Mensurationists’ Meeting. University of MN Report #37. 157 pp.

Borders, B. E., M. Harrison, Y. Zhang, B. Shiver, M. L. Clutter, C. J. Cieszewski. Growth and yield models for second rotation loblolly pine plantations in the piedmont / upper coastal plain and the lower coastal plain of the southeastern United States. Plantation Management Research Cooperative Technical Report 2003 – 4. 48 p.

Siry, J., T. G. Harris, Robert Izlar, M. L. Clutter. Global competitiveness of Georgia’s pulp and paper industries. FY 2004 TIP3 Research Report. 10 pp.

Zasada, M., C. J. Cieszewski, R. Lowe, J. Zawadzki, M. L. Clutter and J. Siry. Usinf FIA and GIS data to estimate areas and volumes of potential stream management zones and road buffers. In McRoberts, R.E., G. Reams, P. Van Deusen, H. McWillaims, C. Cieszewski (Eds). 2004. Proceedings of the 4th annual FIA symposium. General Technical Report NC-252. St. Paul MN. USDA Forest Service.

Clutter, M.L. Changing private timberland ownership trends in the United States: Causes and impacts. Western Forest Economists’ Conference. May 1 – 3, 2004.

Clutter, M. L. Trends in Timberland Investing: A perspective on the asset class. International trends in alternative asset investing. IQPC Financial Advisors Conference Proceedings. October, 2005. p 127-133.

Clutter, M. L. and D. Newman. 2005. The Changing Landscape of Timberland Ownership. South Carolina Forests. November, 2005. pp 25 – 29.

Clutter, M. L. and J. Siry. Using Monte Carlo simulation to assess growth and yield methodology in the MP-SRTS Forest Inventory Projection Model. Southern Forest Analysis Consortium Proceedings. August 15, 2005.

Clutter, M.L. and J. Siry. A Hardwood Resource Assessment for Georgia. Global competitiveness of Georgia’s pulp and paper industries. FY 2005 TIP3 Research Report. 14 pp.

Clutter, M. L. Benchmarking Timberland Returns: How do we compare the asset class. IQPC Timberland Investing Conference. April 23-26, 2005

Clutter, M.L., R. C. Abt, and D. M. Adams. A projection of large sawtimber inventory and harvest in the Pacific Northwest and the U.S. South: Implications for lumber prices and markets. Western Forest Economists’ Conference. May 2-3, 2005

Clutter, M.L. Changing Landscape of Private Timberland Ownership in the South. Georgia Forestry Association Board Meeting. Macon, Georgia. June 2006.

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