Applegate River Watershed Forest Simulation Project

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John Sessions
Professor
Department of Forest Engineering
College of Forestry
Oregon State University
Registered Professional Civil Engineer: Washington and Colorado

BS, 1966 University of California, Los Angeles
MSCE, 1968 California State University
MS, 1971 University of Washington
PhD, 1979 Oregon State University

Research interests: transportation planning, forest planning, forest engineering.

Current programs: developing techniques for transportation planning, tactical forest planning.

Courses:

Engineering Computations
Forest Planning
Logging Mechanics
Logging Vehicle Performance
Forest Transportation
Combinatorial Optimization in Forest Planning
International Forestry
Economics of Private Forestry

Selected recent publications:

Sessions, J. 1991. Solving for habitat connections as a Steiner network problem. Forest Science 38(1):203-207.
Sessions, J. and R. Heinrich. 1993. Tropical Forestry Handbook, Harvesting and Roads chapters. Springer Verlag. pp 1269-1423.
Sessions, J., S. Crim, and K.N. Johnson. 1994. Geographic information systems and decision models in forest management planning. IN:Remote Sensing and GIS in Ecosystem Management. Island Press, pp. 63-76.
Brown, C. and J. Sessions. 1996. A maximum load path solution for the standing skyline. Forest Science 42(2):220-227.
Bettinger, P, J. Sessions, and K. Boston. 1997. Using TABU search to schedule timber harvests subject to spatial wildlife goals for big game. Ecological Modelling 94(1997)111-123 .

Selected recent theses:

Boston, Kevin. 1996. Using TABU search to solve tactical forest planning problems with spatial wildlife habitat goals and constraints.
Xu, Shenglin. 1996. Preliminary road planning using ARC GRID.