Scheduling Harvests in an Environment of Insect Disturbance
Jason McLellan, Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, ON, P7B 5E1, Canada, jjmclell@lakeheadu.ca
Kevin Crowe, Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, ON, P7B 5E1, Canada, kevin.crowe@lakeheadu.ca
A spatially explicit tactical harvest scheduling model is developed to maximize net present value resulting from harvesting and road building operations in an environment where insect dispersal decreases the value of standing inventory. The formulation for the insect dispersal is based on population diffusion theory and the model is solved using a metaheuristic search algorithm. The objective of the model is to produce solutions that quarantine incipient insect populations by removing habitat through pre-emptive clear cutting or reactive salvage logging.
Decisions for Sustainability
June 12-14, 2007
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Forest Estate Models for the Future
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