This paper addresses the economics of forest fuel thinning programs on federal lands in the U.S. West, and presents a model of regional timber and product market impacts. The issue of economics is vital to the debate about fire management, and this paper presents market implications of two...

Physiological process models, productivity studies, andwildlife abundance studies all require accuraterepresentations of tree crowns. In the past, geometricshapes or flexible mathematical equations approximatinggeometric shapes were used to represent crown profiles.Crown profile of loblolly pine...