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Forest planning at the tactical level

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Forest management and planning can involve large tracts of land involving numerous areal units. One approach to plan activities for a forested region over decades involves breaking down decision making into three components: strategic, tactical, and operational. Each level of the management hierarchy can involve the development and application of optimization models. These models typically aid in exploring management alternatives as well as multi-objective tradeoffs. Even though a strategic model can provide support for long term management at a broad scale, solutions may not be feasible at an operational level. Tactical level modeling helps to bridge solutions reached at a strategic level using operational planning information. This paper presents several tactical level planning models that have been developed as a part of a research effort supported by the US Forest Service. These models have been utilized in land use management and planning by the US Forest Service through a specially developed spatial decision support system.

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  1. Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA

    Richard L. Church

  2. Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210-1366, USA

    Alan T. Murray

  3. USDA Forest Service, 630 Samsome, San Francisco, CA, 94111, USA

    Klaus H. Barber

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Church, R.L., Murray, A.T. & Barber, K.H. Forest planning at the tactical level. Annals of Operations Research 95, 3–18 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018922728855

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