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Claire A. Montgomery

Professor

BA, 1976, Portland State University
BS, 1984, Oregon State University
MF, 1986, University of Washington
PhD, 1990, University of Washington
Current Curriculum Vitae

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Research Interests:

natural resource and forest economics

Current programs:

economics of biodiversity, forest land use trade-offs, economics of wildland fire

Current projects:
  • Community considerations in prioritizing forest fire fuel treatments

  • Letting fires burn: an analysis of the opportunity cost of fire suppression

  • Computational sustainability: computational methods for a sustainable environment, economy, and society

  • Extensions of RPA timber assessment modeling

  • Interaction of private and public forest fire risk management decisions

Courses:

  • FOR 331 - Forest Resources Economics II

  • AREc/Econ 512, Microeconomic Theory I

  • FOR 534 - Economics of the Forest Resource

Graduate Students: Jane Harrison (PhD), Rachel Houtman (MS), Mindy Crandall(PhD), Aaaron Gagnon (PhD)

Recent Graduate Students:

  • Gwen Busby (PhD), 2008, "Interaction of private and public forest fire risk management decisions"
  • Masashi Konoshima (PhD), 2006, "Spatially explicit intertemporal forest management decision under risk of fire."
  • Christian Langpap (PhD), 2002, "Modeling private nonindustrial forest landowners and conservation incentives."
  • Darek Nalle (PhD), 2001, "Optimizing spatial and temporal aspects of nature reserve design under economic and ecological objectives."
  • David Calkin (PhD), 2001, "Land management with ecological and economic objectives: Developing a production possibility set of wildlife species persistence and timber harvest value using simulated annealing."
  • Mark Lichtenstein (MS), 2001, "Tradeoffs associated with managing forested landscapes for timber and biodiversity: A case study in the Oregon Coast Range."
  • Neal Shunk (MS), 2000, "Choosing efficient land allocations and forest management regimes for biodiversity."
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