Systems analysis in forest resources: proceedings of the eighth symposium, held September / edited by Greg J. Arthaud and Tara M. Barrett.

Includes bibliographical references.

Fire and fuels.- Characterizing Historical Variability in Boreal Forest Fire Frequency: Implications for Fire and Forest Management.- Comparing Potential Fuel Treatment Trade-Off Models.- Supply Chain Modeling of Forest Fuel.- Combining Simulation and Optimization for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Fuel Treatments for Four Different Fuel Conditions at Landscape Scales.- Determining Forest Fuel Treatment Levels for the Bitterroot Front using VDDT.- Spatial Point Pattern Analysis of Lightning-caused Forest Fires in the Boreal Forest Region of Ontario.- Networks and transportation.- Simulating a Smokejumper Service Delivery System.- An Approach to Optimizing Helicopter Logging Operations.- Annual Harvest Planning Integrated with Crew Assignment and Transportation Planning.- An Application of Combinatorial Optimization Heuristics to Timber Sale Scheduling Considering Distance Dependent Costs and Equipment Balancing Requirements.- An Investigation of the Influence of Digital Elevation Model Inaccuracies on Terrain-Based Delineation of Drainage Networks.- NETWORK 2000, a Program for Optimizing Large Fixed and Variable Cost Transportation Problems.- Forest and landscape planning.- Cooperative Forest Planning Using Criteria, Indicators and Systems Analysis.- Techniques for Assessing Relative Values for Multiple Objective Management on Private Forests.- Structure-Based Management for the State of Oregon: an Application of Combinatorial Optimization Heuristics for Large-Scale Landscape Analysis.- Applying TELSA to Assess Alternative Management Scenarios.- A Decision Support System for Forest Ecosystem Management in Portugal.- Linking Temporal-Optimization and Spatial-Simulation Models for Forest Planning.- Improving Habitat for Species at Risk While Maintaining Timber Supply: the Umpqua Land Exchange Project.- Ecological modelling, biodiversity and wildlife.- An Ecological Approach to Developing a Decision Support System for Forest Planning.- Assessing Forest-Management Strategies Through the Lens of Biodiversity: a Practical Case from Central-West Alberta.- Sustaining Wildlife Populations in Productively Managed Forests.- Designing Compact and Contiguous Reserve Networks Under a Budget Constraint.- Eight Heuristic Planning Techniques Applied to Three Increasingly Difficult Wildlife Planning Problems: a Summary.- Forest resource applications.- Optimal Financial Management of the Yellow-poplar/Oak Covertype in the Central Appalachians.- Comparison of Heuristics for Spatially Constrained Natural Resource Management Problems.- An Adjacency-Modeling Problem Based on Constructing Harvesting Areas.- Estimating and Mapping Five Forest Attributes with Satellite Ancillary Data.- General Equilibrium Analysis of Impacts of NAFTA and WTO on U.S. Forest Products Industries.- Co-integration of Timber and Financial Markets - Implications for Portfolio Selection.- Estimating Wood Utilization Accounts and Input-Output Relations from International Forest Product Statistics.