Education:

    B.S. Forestry, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, 1972

    M.S. Wood Science and Technology (Business Management minor), Mississippi State University, Starkville, 1974

    Ph.D. Wood Science and Technology, Mississippi State University, Starkville, 1982

Professional Experience:

Forest Products Technologist, USDA Forest Service, SE Area S&P.F., 1975-1980

Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Mississippi Forest Products Utilization Laboratory, Mississippi State University, Starkville, 1980-1992

Professor, Department of Forest Products, University of Idaho, Moscow, 1992-present

Recent Publications:

2008.  Initial high-temperature schedule to reduce drying time and control kiln brown stain in ponderose pine shop lumber.  Forest Products Journal 58(12):29-32.  (With N.R. Smith and A. G. McDonald).

2008.  Idaho's forest products industry: Current conditions and forecast 2008.  Station Bulletin 87, Idaho Forest, Wildlife and Range Experimental Station, Moscow, ID.  4 pp. (With J.P. Brandt, T.A. Morgan, C.E. Keegan, and S.R. Shook).

2007.  Idaho's forest products industry: Current conditions and forecast 2007.  Station Bulletin 89, Idaho Forest, Wildlife and Range Experimental Station, Moscow, ID.  4 pp. (With C.E. Keegan, J.P. Brandt, S.R. Shook, and K.A. Blatner).

2006.  Impacts of high-temperature and restraint on kiln-dried grand fir studs curve sawn from small-diameter logs.  Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Western Dry Killn Association, Corvallis, OR.  pp. 78-90.  (With H.M. Deutschlander, R.L. Folk, S.R. Shook, and D.O. Everson).

2006.  Impacts of high-temperature and restraint on kiln-dried grand fir studs curve sawn from small-diameter logs.  Forest Products Journal 56(2):78-84.  (With H.M. Deutschlander, R.L. Folk, S.R. Shook, and D.O. Everson).

2006.  Idaho's forest products industry: Current conditions and forecast 2006.  Station Bulletin 86, Idaho Forest, Wildlife and Range Experimental Station, Moscow, ID.  4 pp. (With C.E. Keegan, J.P. Brandt, K. J. Pavia, S.R. Shook, and K.A. Blatner).

2005.  Capacity for utilization of USDA Forest Service, Region I small-diameter timber.  Forest Products Journal 55(12):143-147.  (With C.E. Keegan, T.A. Morgan, P.J. Cohn, K.A. Blatner, T.P. Spoelma, and S.R. Shook).

2005.  Idaho's forest products industry: Current conditions and forecast 2005.  Station Bulletin 83, Idaho Forest, Wildlife and Range Experimental Station, Moscow, ID.  4 pp. (With C.E. Keegan, J.P. Brandt, K. J. Pavia, S.R. Shook, and K.A. Blatner).

2004.  Risk and feasibility of processing small-diameter material in the U.S. west Part 1: Structural lumber.  Forest Products Journal 54(12):97-103.  (With H.G. Stewart, K. A. Blatner, and C.K. Keegan).

2004.  Lumber production, properties and uses.  Chapter in Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences.  Elsevier Limited, Oxford, UK.  pp. 1327-1331.

2004.  Idaho's forest products industry: Current conditions and forecast 2004.  Station Bulletin 81, Idaho Forest, Wildlife and Range Experiment Station.  University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. 4 pp. (With C. E. Keegan, T. A. Morgan, K. J. Pavia, S. R. Shook, and K. A. Blatner).

2004.  Washington's forest products industry: Current conditions and forecast 2004. Miscellaneous Pub. 531, Department of Natural Resource Sciences Cooperative Extension.  Washington State University, Pullman, WA. 8 pp. (With K. A. Blatner, C. E. Keegan, and S. R. Shook).