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Claire A. Montgomery
Professor
Department of Forest Resources
205 Peavy Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-5703
(541) 737-5533


Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Full Curriculum Vitae (pdf)


Education:
BA, 1976, Portland State University
BS, 1984, Oregon State University
MF, 1986, University of Washington
PhD, 1990, University of Washington

Research interests: natural resource and forest economics, econometrics

Current programs: economics of biodiversity; forest land use trade-offs; residential housing demand

Current projects:

  • Extensions of RPA timber assessment modeling
  • Interaction of private and public forest fire risk management decisions
  • Changing Housing Density in the Rural Midwest
  • Modeling Compatibility of Timber, Biodiversity, and Old Forest Structure with Fire Risk
  • Achieving Sustainable Forestry: Incentives or regulations?
  • Integrating Detailed Economic and Biological Information into Large-Scale Conservation Planning in the Willamette River Basin of Oregon

Courses:

FOR 331, Forest Resource Economics II
AREc/Econ 512, Microeconomic Theory I
FOR 534, Economics of the Forest Resource

Current graduate students: Gwen Busby (PhD)

Recent graduate students:

  • 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."

Dept. of Forest Resources, Oregon State University,
280 Peavy Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331.
phone: 541-737-4951 | fax: 541-737-3049
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