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The 2015\u00a0Western Forest Economists 50th\u00a0Annual\u00a0Meeting was a Joint Meeting with ISFRE<\/a> (The International Society Of Forest Resource Economics)\u00a0and took place\u00a0May 31 to June 2, 2015 at the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia<\/a>\u00a0in Vancouver, British Columbia.<\/p>\n

2015 Meeting Agenda<\/a><\/p>\n

2015 Presentations:<\/h4>\n

Assessing choices: the opportunity costs of participating in PES
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Kahlil Baker <\/em><\/p>\n

A Canadian forest sector bioeconomy: is it in reach?<\/a><\/strong>
\nMark Boyland<\/em><\/p>\n

Machine learning methods to improve fire suppression policies on simulated landscapes <\/a>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Hailey K. Buckingham<\/em><\/p>\n

Long-term implications of CO2 fertilization for global forests and forest industries
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Joseph Buongiorno <\/em><\/p>\n

Sources of risk in timberland investment
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Gwen Busby and Clark Binkley <\/em><\/p>\n

Generalized Faustmann formula with forest taxation <\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong>Sun Joseph Chang <\/em><\/p>\n

Firm transformation in the Canadian forest sector: what is really happening!
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dave Cohen and Alice Palmer <\/em><\/p>\n

The feasibility of intermediate processing centers to enable greater biomass supply
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Mindy S. Crandall, Claire A. Montgomery and Darius Adams <\/em><\/p>\n

Structure and contribution of the U.S. forest products industry over time
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Ram P. Dahal, James E. Henderson, Ian A. Munn, Donald Grebner and Robert Grala <\/em><\/p>\n

Quantification of values associated with land use in coastal areas of Mississippi and Alabama<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong>Ram P. Dahal, Robert K. Grala and Jason S. Gordon<\/em><\/p>\n

Estimates of potential wood energy demand in Alaska
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Jean M. Daniels and Michael Paruszkiewicz <\/em><\/p>\n

Economic tradeoffs of managing pine plantations for timber production or wildlife habitat
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Brock Davis, Ian Munn, James Henderson and Bronson Strickland <\/em><\/p>\n

Wood energy production and consumption in BC
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Caren C. Dymond and Adam Kamp\u00a0<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New Zealand forestry sector\u2019s experience in providing carbon sequestration services within the framework of an emissions trading scheme <\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong>David Evison <\/em><\/p>\n

A review of the Canada-US Softwood lumber dispute from a BC perspective
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Rebecca Ewing <\/em><\/p>\n

Community forest enterprises in Mexico: competitiveness and value from enterprise and community perspectives
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Gregory E. Frey, Robert R. Davis, Frederick Cubbage, Diana Rodriguez-Paredes and Carole Megevand <\/em><\/p>\n

25 Years of economic research on non-timber forest products in the United States: history, trends, status, and future priorities
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Gregory E. Frey, Keith Blatner, Michael Jacobson et al. <\/em><\/p>\n

Metro Nature, Urban Forests, and Human Health – Valuation of Urban Ecosystem Services
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Stephen C. Grado, Kathleen L. Wolf, Marcus K. Measells and Alicia S.T. Robbins <\/em><\/p>\n

Climate change education in forestry extension: a case study from Mississippi
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Jason Gordon, James Henderson, Butch Bailey et al. <\/em><\/p>\n

Policies and incentives to support collaborative wildfire planning and management in British Columbia
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Ngaio Hotte and Harry Nelson <\/em><\/p>\n

Valuation of First Nations peoples\u2019 social, cultural, and land use activities using life satisfaction approach
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Shashi Kant, Ilan Vertinsky and Bin Zheng<\/em><\/p>\n

Results and trends from the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations-Annual Survey of Mills
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Jiali J. Leng <\/em><\/p>\n

The use of value chain analysis to assess natural resource use
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Angela Mawdsley <\/em><\/p>\n

Assessing the impact of policies and regulations on timber supply: British Columbia case study<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong>Mahsa Mojahednia, Harry Nelson and Chris Gaston <\/em><\/p>\n

Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of Alberta\u2019s forest management strategies in response to the Mountain Pine Beetle <\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong>Harry Nelson, Allan Carroll, Brad Seely, Clive Welham and Arnold Moy <\/em><\/p>\n

Forest management and wildfire prevention under forest carbon policies <\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong>Zhuo Ning and Changyou Sun <\/em>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Estimates of residual fibre supply from a forest sector transportation model of the Canadian Prairie Provinces
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Kurt Niquidet <\/em><\/p>\n

The United States-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement 2006: an actual versus optimal export tax
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Rajan Parajuli, Sudipta Sarangi, Sun Joseph Chang and R. Carter Hill <\/em><\/p>\n

The traditional communities in Brazil and its importance for forest conservation
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Ana Paula Donicht Fernandes, Vitor Afonso Hoeflich and Harry Nelson <\/em><\/p>\n

Mill capacity and willingness to utilize additional logging residues to produce electricity in southern United States
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Raju Pokharel and Robert K. Grala <\/em><\/p>\n

Likelihood of developing wood-based bioenergy clusters in the southern United States
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Raju Pokharel and Robert K. Grala <\/em><\/p>\n

The Wind Chill Index: expressing log export increments in terms of US housing starts<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong>Mark Rasmussen<\/em><\/p>\n

Stakeholder evaluation of the potential of market-based instruments (MBIs) for conservation in Rwanda
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Kel Rayens <\/em><\/p>\n

Assessing carbon and ecosystem footprints of forest management scenarios for California\u2019s timberlands over 40 years of growth, management and disturbances <\/a><\/span><\/strong>William Stewart, Benktesh Sharma and Jeremy Fried <\/em><\/p>\n

Carbon flux in British Columbia\u2019s forests: options for biomass as an energy source
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Baojing Sun, Craig M.T. Johnston and G. Cornelis van Kooten <\/em><\/p>\n

Imperfect competition and timber market dynamics after hurricanes <\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong>Changyou Sun <\/em><\/p>\n

Estimating fire program management cost savings from fuel treatments in the US Forest Service\u2019s Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, using the Risk and Cost Analysis Tools package
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Keith D. Stockmann <\/em><\/p>\n

A preliminary assessment of the supply and demand for biomass residuals in British Columbia
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Sinclair Tedder <\/em><\/p>\n

Improved Spatial Fire Economics Modeling
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Matthew P. Thompson, Karin L. Riley, Michael S. Hand and Joe H. Scott\u00a0<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Assessing the economic benefits of co-operation: a case study of small forest operators in Saskatchewan <\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong>Matt Vermette and Hayley Hesseln <\/em><\/p>\n

Elkhorn – a coastal forest village concept in catalyzing regional economic forest activity
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>William Wagner <\/em><\/p>\n

Modeling potential impact of Mountain Pine Beetle infestation on the lumber industry in Alberta
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Zhen Xu\u00a0<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Forward reaching optimization to increase economic value of trees for wood pole production
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Rene Zamora and John Sessions\u00a0<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2015\u00a0Western Forest Economists 50th\u00a0Annual\u00a0Meeting was a Joint Meeting with ISFRE (The International Society Of Forest Resource Economics)\u00a0and took place\u00a0May 31 to June 2, 2015 at the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia\u00a0in Vancouver, British Columbia. 2015 Meeting Agenda 2015 Presentations: Assessing choices: the opportunity costs of participating in PES Kahlil Baker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-515","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernforesteconomists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernforesteconomists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernforesteconomists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernforesteconomists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernforesteconomists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/westernforesteconomists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/westernforesteconomists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernforesteconomists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}