Claire A. Montgomery

Professor

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

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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 Resources Economics II

• AREc/Econ 512, Microeconomic Theory I

• FOR 534 - Economics of the Forest Resource

Graduate Students: Jane Harrison (PhD), Rachel Houtman (MS)

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."