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  • CANCELLED
    9:20am - 9:28am PST
    Economic Analyses Of Growth & Yield And Thinning Decisions On Hardwood Plantations
    Location: A11
    Author: Sayon Ghosh, n/a – Purdue University
    Economics, Policy, and Law
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    10:30am - 12:00pm PST
    Emerging Markets
    Location: A6
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Maggie Davis, MS – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Economics, Policy, and Law
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    10:30am - 11:00am PST
    Impacts of the European Renewable Energy Policy on Forest Resource Markets in the Southeastern United States: A Case of the Wood Pellet Industry
    Location: A6
    Speaker: Rajan Parajuli, PhD – North Carolina State University
    Economics, Policy, and Law
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    11:00am - 11:30am PST
    Assessment of Factors Driving Spatiotemporal Variation in Timber Products Output (TPO) Trends
    Location: A6
    Speaker: Olakunle Emmanuel Sodiya, PhD Student – North Carolina State University
    Economics, Policy, and Law
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    11:30am - 12:00pm PST
    Forest ​Management ​Incentives and Landowner Behavior: A Synthesis to Inform Discussions on Policies for Carbon
    Location: A6
    Speaker: Stephanie Jo Chizmar, PhD (she/her/hers) – US Forest Service
    Speaker: Tamara Cushing, PhD – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Srijana Baral, PhD (she/her/hers) – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Tatyana Ruseva
    Economics, Policy, and Law
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
    Do wildfires and prescribed fires contribute to the presence of invasive plants in coastal Mississippi?
    Location: A10
    Speaker: Robert K. Grala, Ph.D. – Mississippi State University
    Economics, Policy, and Law
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    8:00am - 9:30am PST
    Evolution of Forestry
    Location: A5
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Nicholas Brokaw, PhD – University of Puerto Rico
    Economics, Policy, and Law
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    8:00am - 8:30am PST
    Forest succession, management and the economy under a changing climate: Coupling economic and forest management models to assess impacts and adaptation options
    Location: A5
    Speaker: Thomas Ochuodho, PhD – University of Kentucky
    Economics, Policy, and Law
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    8:30am - 9:00am PST
    Mitigating Forest Loss in Central Ohio: A Private Woodland Owner Choice Experiment
    Location: A5
    Speaker: Sayeed R. Mehmood, PhD – Ohio State University
    Author: Ahmed Hussain, MS – The Ohio State University
    Economics, Policy, and Law
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    9:00am - 9:30am PST
    Effect of chronic wasting disease on hunting lease values: A discrete choice experiment approach
    Location: A5
    Speaker: Ram Adhikari, PhD (he/him/his) – New Mexico Highlands University
    Economics, Policy, and Law
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    10:30am - 12:00pm PST
    Innovative finance in action: Strategies for sustainable forest management from urban canopies to headwater forests
    Location: A3
    Moderator: Phil Saksa, PhD – Blue Forest Conservation
    Panelist: Sarah Hall – American Forest Foundation
    Panelist: Zach Knight – Blue Forest
    Panelist: Raven Lawson (she/her/hers) – Central Arkansas Water
    Panelist: Marisa Repka – Cambium Carbon
    Economics, Policy, and Law
     CFE 1.5 / ISA CEU 1.5 / ESA CEU .375
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Impact of Forest Products Market on Forest Fuel Treatment Activities in Colorado
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Kritagya Gyawali, Masters of Forestry Science (he/him/his) – Colorado State University
    Economics, Policy, and Law
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Tax Incentives for Conservation Easement Program in the US: A Review
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Alisha Sharma, MF (she/her/hers) – Colorado State University
    Economics, Policy, and Law
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    The logging sector in East Texas
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Anusha Shrestha, PhD – Stephen F. Austin State University
    Co-Author: Pooja Chhetri – Stephen F. Austin State University
    Co-Author: Matthew McBroom, PhD – Stephen F. Austin State University
    Co-Author: Xufang Zhang
    Economics, Policy, and Law
  • Saturday, Oct 28th
    8:30am - 9:00am PST
    Assessing tree planting schemes in Ethiopia to identify good governance practices
    Location: A6
    Speaker: Yitbarek Tibebe Weldesemaet, PhD – coventry University
    Economics, Policy, and Law
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Saturday, Oct 28th
    10:10am - 10:18am PST
    User-friendly direct-response analysis: Coupling TPO data with public databases to estimate forest products employment ratios
    Location: A11
    Speaker: Samuel G. Scott, MS (he/him/his) – BBER FIRP - UM
    Economics, Policy, and Law