Current
Research Interests
Forest transportation planning, forest road design and management
systems and supply chain management for the primary forest industry
Current Programs
Develop techniques to plan, schedule, and monitor the primary
forest products supply chain.
Recent Graduate Students
- Karina Bohle
- Andrea Bord
- Jeff Hamann
Courses
FE 415/515 Forest Road Engineering
FE 416/516 Forest Road System Management
FE 450/550 Operations Design I
FE 451/551 Operations Design II
Selected Recent Publications
Boston, K. 2008. The role of planted forests in sustainable development with an emphasis on the situation in Colombia. Forum on Public Policy. 3:(4):277-283.
2. Boston, K., M. Pyles, and A. Bord. 2008 Compaction of forest roads in Northwestern Oregon – Room for improvement. International Journal of Forest Engineering. 19:24-28.
3. Bettinger, P., and K. Boston. 2008. Habitat and commodity production trade-offs in coastal Oregon. Socio-economic planning sciences. 42:112-128.
4. Hartter, J. and K. Boston. 2008. Consuming fuel and fueling consumption: Modeling human caloric demands and fuelwood use. Small Scale Forestry. 7:(1):1-15.
5. Hartter, J. and K. Boston. 2007. An integrated approach to modeling resource utilization for rural communities in developing countries. Journal of Environmental Management. 85 :( 1):78-92.
6. Thompson, M., K. Boston, J. Arthur, and J. Sessions. 2007. Intelligent deployment of forest road graders. International Journal of Forest Engineering. 18:(2):15-23.
7. Bettinger, P., K. Boston, Y-H. Kim and J. Zhu. 2007. Landscape-level optimization using tabu search and stand density-related forest management prescriptions. European Journal of Operational Research.176: 1265-1282.
8. Boston, K. and J. Sessions. 2006. Development of a spatial harvest scheduling system to promote the conservation between indigenous and exotic forests. International Forestry Review. 8 :( 3):297-306.
9. Boston, K. and P. Bettinger. 2006. An economic and landscape evaluation of the green-up rules for California, Oregon, and Washington (USA). Forest Policy & Economics. 8:251-266.
10. Sessions, J. and K. Boston. 2006. Optimization of road spacing for shovel logging. International Journal of Forest Engineering. 17 :( 1):67-75.
11. Marshall, H., G.E. Murphy, K. Boston. 2006. Evaluation of the economic impacts
of length and diameter measurement error on mechanical processors and harvesters
operating in pine stands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:1661-1673.
12. Marshall, H.D., G.E. Murphy, K. Boston. 2006. Three mathematical
models for bucking-to-order. Silva Fennica 40(1): 127-142.
13. Sessions, J., K. Boston, R. Thoreson, and K. Mills. 2006.
Optimal policies for managing aggregate resources on temporary
forest roads. Western Journal of Applied Forestry. 21 :(
4):207-216.
14. Akay, A., K. Boston, and J. Sessions. 2005. The evolution
of computer-aided road design systems, Journal of Forest
Engineering. 16 :( 2):73-79.
15. Sessions, J., K. Boston, R. Hill., and R. Steward.
2005. Log sorting location decisions under uncertainty. Forest
Products
Journal. 55: (12):53-57.
16. Boston, K. and Murphy. 2003 Value recovery from two mechanized
log-making operations in the southeastern United States.
Southern Journal of Applied Forestry. 27:(4):259-265(5).
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