Jeremy S. Wilson 249 Nutting Hall Department of Forest Management University of Maine Orono, ME 04469-5755  (207) 581-9213  e-mail: jeremy_wilson@umenfa.maine.edu

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Degrees:

        M.F. Yale University, 1993, Forest Management
        Ph.D. University of Washington, 1998, Silviculture
 
 

Current Research Interests: Developing and testing of software tools and techniques that facilitate the management of forested ecosystems Exploring the impacts of alternative approaches to management on future landscape Using flexibility to manage uncertainty and risk at the stand and landscape scale Evaluating forest disturbance and forest stand dynamics Exploring northeast forest history Understanding scale in forest ecology and management

Selected Publications:

• Small, E.D., J.S. Wilson, and A.J. Kimball. in press. A methodology for the relocation of permanent plot markers. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry.
• Etheridge, D.A., D.A. MacLean, R.G. Wagner, and J.S. Wilson. in press. Effects of intensive forest management on stand and landscape characteristics in northern New Brunswick, Canada (1945-2027). Landscape Ecology.
• Etheridge, D.A., D.A. MacLean, R.G. Wagner, and J.S. Wilson. in press. Influence of intensive management on landscape composition and stand structure of a northern New Brunswick forest from 1946-2002. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
• Wilson, J.S. 2005. Nineteenth century lumber surveys for Bangor, Maine; implications for pre-European settlement forest characteristics in Northern and Eastern Maine, USA. Journal of Forestry 103(5):218-223.
• Wilson, J.S. 2004. Vulnerability to wind damage in managed landscapes of the coastal Pacific Northwest. Forest Ecology and Management 191:341-351.
• Wilson, J.S. 2004. Combining search techniques and stand visualization to explore and analyze forest inventory databases. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 43:251-256.
• Baker, P.J. and J.S. Wilson. 2003. Coexistence of tropical trees. Nature 422:581-582.
• Baker, P.J., J.S. Wilson, and R.I. Gara. 2002 Silviculture around the world: past, present, and future trends. UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (http://www.eolss.net/).
• Wilson, J.S and P.J. Baker. 2001. Flexibility in forest management: managing uncertainty in Douglas-fir forests of the Pacific Northwest. Forest Ecology and Management 145:219-227.
• Wilson, J.S. and R. McGaughey. 2000. Presenting landscape-scale forest information: What is sufficient and what is appropriate? Journal of Forestry 98(12):21-27.
• Wilson, J.S and C.D. Oliver. 2000. Stability and density management in Douglas-fir plantations. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30:910-920.
• Baker, P.J., and J.S. Wilson. 2000. A quantitative technique for the identification of canopy stratification in tropical and temperate forests. Forest Ecology and Management 127:77-86.
• Wilson, J.S. and P. J. Baker, 1998. Mitigating fire risk to late-successional forest reserves on the east slope of the Washington Cascade Range, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 110:59-75.
• Wilson, J. S., E. S. Isaac, and R. I. Gara. 1998. Impacts of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) infestation on future landscape susceptibility to the western spruce budworm (Choristoneura occidentalis) in north central Washington. Journal of Applied Entomology 122:239-245.
• McCarter, J.M., J.S. Wilson, P.J. Baker, J.L. Moffett, and C.D. Oliver. 1998. Landscape management through integration of existing tools and emerging technologies. Journal of Forestry 96(6):17-23.

Courses Taught: FTY 476 Forest Management II  FTY 603 Forest Management Problem FSC 408 Forest Operations Planning and Analysis Links: Baxter Fire Project http://www.forest-resources.umaine.edu/baxter.pdf LMS in Maine http://www.forest-resources.umaine.edu/mainelms.pdf Ecosystem Management http://silvae.cfr.washington.edu/ecosystem-management/ Landscape Management System  http://lms.cfr.washington.edu/ Landscape Visualization Software http://forsys.cfr.washington.edu/envision.html Stand Visualization Software http://forsys.cfr.washington.edu/svs.html Land-use history and forest dynamics of Long Island, ME  http://www.forest-resources.umaine.edu/long_island.pdf Stand Search Northeast Vulnerability and Habitat Measures

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