In much of the southern United States, foresters must be licensed in their respective state to provide forest management services to the public. A few states do not require a license. Most of the literature about foresters focuses on states where licenses are required, and data from states that do not require a license is very limited. An online survey was developed to determine the perspective of consulting foresters with reg...

The performance of two new heuristics that combine tabu search with a genetic crossover technique was examined for their usefulness in solving spatially constrained harvest scheduling problems. One heuristic utilized tabu search with 1-opt moves and a genetic crossover technique (TS/GA), and the other utilized tabu search with both 1-opt and 2-opt moves and a genetic crossover technique (TS2/GA). The heuristics were tested on...

Heuristics are commonly used to solve spatial harvest scheduling problems. They can generate spatially and temporally feasible solutions to large problems that traditional mathematical programming techniques are unable to solve. A common complaint about heuristics is that the quality of the solutions is unknown. We compared three heuristic techniques commonly used to solve spatial harvest scheduling problems: Monte Carlo integ...