|
Capstone Design Field Studies is a quarter-long course, in which seniors develop a management and transportation plan for a land base in cooperation with a forest landowner. The project has gained a new dimension in light of the ongoing shift from a pure timber-production-oriented design paradigm to one driven by goals for superior land stewardship and environmental protection of streams and other resources. (Schiess, Rogers, Jaross) |
| Road Density Reduction In a project for the DNR, we compared the economic and environmental impacts of reducing road density in a block of DNR ownership in the Eastern Cascades. (Schiess, Krogstad, Rogers) |
| Empirical Landslide Probability Instead of hazard risk, managers can use existing landslide inventories to predict landslide probabilities and the sediment volume expected from specific harvest boundaries and road alignments. (Krogstad, Schiess) |
| Cumulative Impacts Developing a GIS framework for assessing the cumulative impacts of landscape scale harvest plans. (Schiess, Krogstad) |
|
Road Spacing and Yarding Distance Developing decision tools to evaluate tradeoffs of road spacing and silvicultural systems as part of long-reach yarding systems. (Schiess, Jaross) |
|
GIS-based road access planning Road layout can be a complicated process. To assist road planning, we have developed an ArcView extension to automate road design and to allow 3-D visualization of the resulting roads. Presented at the 2001 International Skyline Symposium. See the presentation here. (Schiess, Rogers) |