Oregon State University

Montgomery, Claire

Professor
Office Location: 
Peavy 273
Phone: 
541-737-5533
Email Address: 
Curriculum Vitae: 
Education: 

PhD, 1990, Economics, University of Washington
MF, 1986, Forest Economics, University of Washington
BS, 1984, Forest Management, Oregon State University
BA, 1976, Fine Art, Portland State University

Current Programs: 

Economics of biodiversity,  forest land use trade-offs, economics of wildland fire 

Current Projects:
  • Cost-effective forest wildfire management: Incentives matter
  • Community considerations in prioritizing forest fire fuel treatments
  • Letting fires burn: an analysis of the opportunity cost of fire suppression
  • Computational sustainability: computational methods for a sustainable environment, economy, and society
  • Integrating ecological and social data to optimize economic decisions on wildlife corridors

 

Graduate Students: Jane Harrison (PhD Forest Resources), Mindy Crandall (PhD Applied Economics), Aaron Gagnon (MS Applied Economics), Yohan Lee (MS Applied Economics), Kate Marcille (MS Sustainable Forest Management)

Courses: 
  • FOR 331 - Forest Resources Economics II
  • AEC 512, Microeconomic Theory I
  • FOR 534 - Economics of the Forest Resource
Recent Publications: 

2002 - 2011

Busby, G., Albers, H.J., and Montgomery, C.A. 2011. forthcoming. Wildfire risk management: spatial interdependence and strategic interaction. Land Economics.

Konoshima, M., Albers, H.J., Montgomery, C.A., and Arthur J.A. 2010. Optimal spatial patterns of fuel management and timber harvest with fire risk. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40(1):95-108.

Polasky, S, Nelson, E., Camm, J. Csuti, B. Fackler, P., Longsodr, E., Montgomery, C., White, D., Arthur, J., Garber-Yonts, B., Haight, R., Kagan, J., Starfield, T. and Tobalske, C. 2008. Where to put things? Spatial land management with biological and economic returns. Biological Conservation 141: 1505-1524. (42, 58).

Konoshima, M., Montgomery, C.A., Albers, H.J., and Arthur, J.L. 2008. Spatial endogenous fire risk and efficient fuel management and timber harvest. Land Economics 84(3):449468. (5, 8).

Busby, G.M., and Montgomery, C.A. 2007. The opportunity cost of forest certification on private land in western Oregon. Western Journal of Applied Forestry 22(1):55-60. (3,1).
 
Montgomery, C.A., Latta, G., and Adams, D.M. 2006. The cost of achieving old-growth forest structure. Land Economics 82(2):240-256. (7, 5).
 
Montgomery, C.A., and Helvoigt, T. 2006. Changes in attitudes about importance of and willingness to pay for salmon recovery in Oregon. Journal of Environmental Management 78(4):330-340. (5, 7).
 
Nalle, D.J., Arthur, J.L., and Montgomery, C.A. 2005. Economic impacts of adjacency and green-up constraints on timber production at a landscape scale. Journal of Forest Economics 10(4):189-205. (0, 1).
 
Arthur, J.L., Camm, J., Haight, R.G., Montgomery, C.A., and Polasky, S. 2004. Weighing conservation objectives: maximum expected coverage versus endangered species protection. Ecological Applications 14(6):1936–1945. (18, 30).
 
Nalle, D.J., Montgomery, C.A., Arthur, J.L., Schumaker, N.H., and Polasky, S. 2004. Modeling joint production of wildlife and timber in forests, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 48(3):997-1017. (51, 66)

Latta, G., Montgomery, C.A. 2004. Minimizing the cost of stand level management for older forest structure in western Oregon, Western Journal of Applied Forestry 19(4):221-231. (6, 8)

Lichtenstein, M.E., and Montgomery, C.A. 2003. Biodiversity and timber in the Coast Range of Oregon: inside the production possibility frontier, Land Economics 79(1):5673. (22, 32)

Calkin, D., Montgomery, C.A., Schumaker, N. H., Polasky, S., Arthur, J.L, and Nalle, D.J. 2002. Developing a production possibility set of wildlife species persistence and timber harvest value using simulated annealing, Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32(8):1329-1342. (36, 57).

Montgomery, C.A. 2002. Ranking the benefits of biodiversity: an exploration of relative value, Journal of Environmental Management 65(3): 313-326. (10, 22)

Arthur, J.L., Haight, R.G., Montgomery, C.A., and Polasky, S. 2002. Analysis of the threshold and expected coverage approaches for the probabilistic reserve selection problem, Environmental Modeling and Assessment 7(2):81-89. (20, 24)

Nalle, D.J., Arthur, J.L, Sessions, J., and Montgomery, C.A. 2002. Economic and spatial impacts of an existing reserve network on future augmentation. Environmental Modeling and Assessment 7(2):99-105. (18, 18)

Recent Theses

Houtman, Rachel. 2011. Letting wildfires burn: Modeling the change in future suppression costs as the result of a suppress versus a let-burn management choice. MS. Oregon State University.

Busby, Gwen. 2008. Interaction of private and public forest fire risk management decisions. PhD. Oregon State University.

Konoshima, Masashi. 2006. Spatially explicit intertemporal forest management decision under risk of fire. PhD. Oregon State University.

Langpap, Christian. 2002. Modeling private nonindustrial forest landowners and conservation incentives. PhD. Oregon State University.

Nalle, Darek. 2001. Optimizing spatial and temporal aspects of nature reserve design under economic and ecological objectives. PhD. Oregon State University.