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Forest Plans of North America

Edited by Jacek Siry, Pete Bettinger, Krista Merry, Donald L. Grebner, Kevin Boston, and Chris Cieszewski

1. Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, New Jersey, United States of America

Steven W. Kallesser

2. Eddyville Tree Farm, Oregon, United States of America

Michael Newton

3. Michael Family Forest, Texas, United States of America

Robin G. Willhoite

4. Pike Lumber Company's Sam Little Forest, Indiana, United States of America

Oliver Grimm

5. Poole and Pianta Woodlot, West Virginia, United States of America

Russ Richardson

6. Rib Lake School Forest, Wisconsin, United States of America

Scott Mueller, Gretchen Marshall, Kirsten Held, and Jeremy Solin

7. Shirley Town Forest, New Hampshire, United States of America

Peter Farrell

8. Arcata Community Forest, California, United States of America

Mark S. Andre

9. Ejido Borbollones, Durango, Mexico

J. Javier Corral-Rivas, J. Ciro Hernández-Díaz, Carlos Antonio López Sánchez, José Encarnación Luján Soto, and Klaus von Gadow

10. Harvard University Forest, Massachusetts, United States of America

Audrey Barker Plotkin, John O’Keefe, and David Foster

11. James F. Dubuar Memorial Forest, New York, United States of America

James Savage

12. McPhail Tree Farm, South Carolina, United States of America

Thomas J. Straka and Tamara L. Cushing

13. Molinillos Private Forest Estate, Durango, Mexico

Gustavo Perez-Verdin, Juan Manuel Cassian-Santos, Klaus von Gadow, and Jose Carlos Monarrez-Gonzalez

14. Ross Forests Partnership, Tennessee, United States of America

Kerry Livengood and John R. Ross

15. Willow Break LLC, Mississippi, United States of America

Ian Munn, William C. Wright, William Hunter, and Greg Bentley

16. Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia and North Carolina, United States of America

Gary W. Johnson

17. Chesapeake Forest Lands, Maryland, United States of America

Kip Powers, Anne Hairston-Strang, Steven Koehn, and Kenneth Jolly

18. Durango State University Forest Las Bayas, Durango, Mexico

J. Ciro Hernández-Díaz, Javier L. Bretado-Velázquez, J. Javier Corral-Rivas, Héctor M. Loera-Gallegos, and Eusebio Montiel-Antuna

19. Garcia River Forest, California, United States of America

Scott Kelly and Kevin Boston

20. Indigenous Community of Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro, Michoacán, Mexico

Alejandro Velázquez, Gerardo Bocco, Alejandro Torres, Adolfo Chavez Lopez, and Felipe Aguilar Gómez

21. Jackson Demonstration State Forest, California, United States of America

Helge Eng

22. Mission Municipal Forest, British Columbia, Canada

Don Reimer

23. San Pedro El Alto Community Forest, Oaxaca, Mexico

Héctor M. De los Santos-Posadas, J. René Valdez-Lazalde, and Juan Manuel Torres-Rojo

24. Sand Hills State Forest, South Carolina, United States of America

Scott Danskin and Brian Davis

25. Sessoms Timber Trust, Georgia, United States of America

Yenie Tran, Dotty S. Porter, Norris Mattox, Bob Izlar, and Jacek Siry

26. South Willapa Bay Conservation Area, Washington, United States of America

Liane Davis, Tom Kollasch, Kyle M. Smith, and Kevin Boston

27. Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge, New Hampshire, United States of America

Thomas LaPointe, Paul Casey, Ian Drew, and Sean Flint

28. Weaverville Community Forest, California, United States of America

Alex Cousins, Colleen O’Sullivan, and Patrick Frost

29. Yale School Forests, New England, United States of America

Mark S. Ashton, Marlyse C. Duguid, Alex L. Barrett, and Kristofer Covey

30. Bayfield County Forest, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jeff Barkley, Jason Bodine, Chris Hoffman, Jeremy Koslowski, Larry Stevens, Joseph Schwantes, and Jane Severt

31. Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, Georgia, United States of America

Pete Bettinger, Krista Merry, Erika Mavity, Dick Rightmyer, and Ron Stevens

32. City of San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jon Swae

33. Forest Management Unit 13 - Forest Management License (FMU) 3, Manitoba, Canada

Kevin Crowe and Laird Van Damme

34. Fort Wainwright, Alaska, United States of America

Dan Rees and Adam Davis

35. Green Diamond Resource Company, California, United States of America

Jim Hawkins, Gary Rynearson, and Kevin Boston

36. Northwest Oregon State Forests, United States of America

John Sessions and Robert Nall

37. Revelstoke Community Forest - Tree Farm License (TFL) 56, British Columbia, Canada

Randy Spyksma, Cam Brown, Del Williams, and Kevin Bollefer

38. South Puget Planning Unit, Washington, United States of America

Cathy Chauvin, Angus Brodie, Heather McPherson, and Abu Nurullah

39. Weyerhaeuser, North Carolina, United States of America

Bud Bigelow, Robert A. Ewing, and Venkatesh Kumar

40. Yakama Reservation, Washington, United States of America

Markian Petruncio and Steve Andringa

41. French-Severn Forest, Ontario, Canada

Barry Davidson

42. Martel Forest, Ontario, Canada

Robert Keron, Dan Rouillard, and Sarah Sullivan

43. Prince Albert Forest Management Agreement (FMA), Saskatchewan, Canada

Cam Brown, Dave Knight, and Pat Mackasey

44. Rayonier, Inc., southern United States of America

John Paul McTague and Michael J. Oppenheimer

45. San Juan National Forest, Colorado, United States of America

Mehmet Demirci, Pete Bettinger, and Krista Merry

46. Tongass National Forest, Alaska, United States of America

Pete Bettinger, Krista Merry, Mehmet Demirci, and Anna M. Klepacka

47. Western Oregon Districts, Bureau of Land Management, United States of America

Edward W. Shepard and Duane Dippon

48. Whitefeather Forest, Ontario, Canada

Aaron Palmer and Robert Keron

49. Synopsis of Forest Management Plans of North America

Kevin Boston, Krista Merry, Donald L. Grebner, Chris Cieszewski, Pete Bettinger, and Jacek P. Siry

About the Author

Jacek Siry is a professor of forest economics at the University of Georgia. He teaches forest economics, economics of renewable resources, and international forest business, and conducts research in applied forest economics with emphasis on timber markets, investments and finance, and forest management. Dr. Siry is also a co-author of two other books published by Academic Press, Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources, and Forest Plans of North America. Pete Bettinger is a professor of forestry at the University of Georgia. He teaches forest planning, forest measurements, and aerial photogrammetry; and conducts research in applied forest management with particular emphasis on harvest scheduling, precision forestry, and geospatial technologies. Dr. Bettinger has worked with the forest industry in the southern and western United States, and maintains this connection to forestry professionals through his leadership in the Southern Forestry and Natural Resource Management GIS Conference and other continuing education courses he offers. Dr. Bettinger is also a co-author of two other books published by Academic Press, Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources, and Forest Plans of North America. Krista Merry is a geographer and research coordinator in the School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. She conducts research in applied forest management with an emphasis on remote sensing, geospatial technologies, landscape planning, and precision forestry. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geography from the University of Georgia. She has extensive experience in using geographic information systems (GIS), satellite imagery, and aerial photography, and has earned GISP certification from the GIS Certification Institute. She has published 35 peer-reviewed journal articles and is co-editor of Forest Plans of North America (Academic Press, 2015). She has acted as chair of the Proceedings of the Southern Forestry and Natural Resource Management GIS Conference four times (soforgis.uga.edu). She also has experience in developing online continuing education courses (introgps.uga.edu) and has led the data collection efforts for several human subject surveys. Dr. Donald L. Grebner is a professor in the Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University. His areas of research specialization include forest management and economics, bioenergy, carbon sequestration, and forest protection. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, both traditional and distance, in forest resource management, advanced forest management, and international forest resources and trade. Prior to his time at Mississippi State, he worked as an extension forester with the U.S. Peace Corps in Costa Rica and was a research analyst for Winrock International. He is very active in the Society of American Foresters as well as the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, Unit 4.02.00 Accounting and Managerial Economics Working Group. Dr. Grebner is a co-author of three textbooks entitled Forest Management and Planning, Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources, and Forest Plans of North America. Dr. Boston received a Bachelor’s degree in forestry from Humboldt State University, and Masters and PhD degrees in forest engineering from Oregon State University. He obtained a JD from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Boston worked for the forest industry in the western United States, Europe and New Zealand. He was a principle in the GIS firm VESTRA Resources in 1988. Dr. Boston has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and is a co-author of four books published by Academic Press, Forest Management and Planning, Forest Plans of North America, Mapping of Human and Natural Systems, and Introduction to Forest Management and two with Springer, Forest Operations in the Tropics and Forest Road Operations in the Tropics. Dr. Boston is an editor of Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences. To our knowledge, he is the only person who has received teaching awards from three different university forestry programs.