Forest Management Research

Best Management Practices for Hazardous Fuels Management in Loblolly Pine Forests

This BMP guide is intended to serve as a general overview of hazardous fuels in loblolly pine forests as well as a reference guide on different fuel reduction treatments. The primary intended audience is land managers and private landowners who either have a fuel problem or may be finding it to be increasingly difficult to prescribe burn their lands with increasing development of rural areas. While the guide will discuss prescribed burning, it will also address possible fire alternatives in a context of the infrastructure or smoke limitations that made prescribed fire unfeasible. In other words, it is assumed that prescribed fire is the preferred option and secondary options are intended as either permanent substitutes or one-time operations to allow future burning. Read more.

Forest landscape planning in Coastal Oregon

Natural resource management policies have historically been evaluated and implemented without using simulations of potential forest landscape condition over time. Forest-based resource policies have traditionally been based on stand-level analyses of individual land ownerships...read more.