Douglas B. Rideout




Fire Economics and Management Laboratory (FEML)	Douglas B. Rideout Professor (Forest Economics and Finance) Dept. of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship Warner College of Natural Resources Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1472 (970) 491-7234 Room 126E Forestry Bldg. doug@warnercnr.colostate.edu

Links to recent research reports: Go to Fire Economics and Management Laboratory (FEML) Professional Interests: Wildfire: Economics of initial attack, economics of prescribed burning and fuels management, interagency strategic planning and fire policy Timber: Timber sale contracting, forest investment analysis, timber supply and demand. Analysis of the timber industry in public forestry. Education: B.S. Forestry, University of Washington, 1975 M.S. Forestry Management, University of Washington, 1977 Ph.D. Forest Economics, University of Washington, 1982 Selected Publications: Articles: Rideout, D.B. and S. J. Botti. 2002. Performance-based fire program analysis system: blueprint for comprehensive fire planning. J. of For. 100(5):36-41. Donovan, Geoffrey and Douglas B. Rideout. 2003. A reformulation of the cost plus net value change (C+NVC) model of wildfire economics. Forest Science . 49(2)318-323. Donovan, Geoffrey and Douglas B. Rideout. 2003. An Integer Programming Model to Optimize Resource Allocation for Wildfire Containment. Forest Science. 49(2)331-335. Rideout, D. B. 2003 (In Press). Social sciences and the economics of moderation in fuels treatment. In: Proceedings: Conference of Fire, Fuel Treatment and Ecological Restoration. April 16-18, 2002. Fort Collins, CO. In Press. Rideout, D. B. and H. Hesseln. 2003. The dynamic Wyoming timber economy. Western Journal of Applied Forestry. In Press. Textbook: Rideout, Douglas B., and Hayley Hesseln. 2001. Principals of Forest and Environmental Economics, 2nd edition. Resource and Environmental Management, LLC. Fort Collins, CO. pp 327. Recent Student Theses: Hesseln, H. 1997. Economics of catastrophic wildfire. Ph.D. Stone, J. 1994. Testing the effectiveness of the SBA-USDA timber set-aside program. M.S. Wright. P. 1990. Recent experiences with end result contracts on western national forests. M.F. Wagner, J. 1990. Portfolio analysis of ponderosa pine investments. Ph.D. Courses Taught: Refer to CSU catalog ("Courses of Instruction") for course descriptions & prerequisites F322 Economics of the Forest Environment NR444 Fire Economics and Policy


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