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Intermountain Forestry Cooperative

Physical Address:
Mary Forney Hall 214
1210 Blake Avenue
Moscow, Idaho

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1133
Moscow, ID 83844-1133

Phone: 208-885-7520

Email: mkimsey@uidaho.edu

Web: uidaho.edu/cnr/ifc

Directions

Physical Address:
975 W. 6th Street
Moscow, Idaho

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1133
Moscow, ID 83844-1133

Phone: 208-885-7952

Email: frfs@uidaho.edu

Web: College of Natural Resources

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People

Staff

Mark Kimsey – Director 

Terry Shaw – Senior Research Scientist

Post-Doctoral Research Associates

Jaslam Poolakkal – Leads national Center for Advanced Forestry Systems effort to build geospatial forest carrying capacity models

Ed Flathers – Leads IFC research efforts in remote sensing and forest inventory

Ann Abbott – Leads IFC research efforts to build allometric relationships from remotely sensed forest inventory and ground truth plots

Benjamin Spei – Leads evaluation of physiographic, edaphic and vegetation classification frameworks along Type F and S riparian zones of Eastern Washington

Graduate Students

Haley Anderson
PhD – Identify climatic, edaphic, physiographic and mensurational stand drivers of western pine beetle infestation and ponderosa pine mortality for the purpose of modifying SDImax management guidelines

Noel Daugherty
Master of Science – Evaluate lidar and photogrammetric remote sensing platforms for automating defining, identifying, and measuring site trees

Taylor Lantz
Master of Science – Assess survival and growth performance of woods run vs improved Douglas-fir seedlings across Intermountain West forest site types

Brandon Light
PhD – Evaluate riparian zone classification systems for eastern Washington for the refinement of riparian management and silviculture guidelines

Daria Paxton
Master of Science – Examine dynamic soil properties and vegetation communities of the Xeric Soil Moisture Regime across Intermountain West forests

Past Graduate Students

Logan Wimme, 2022
Master of Science – Modeling site productivity across interior northern California

Ryan Heiderman, 2021
Ph.D. - Current and future environmental constraints on stand carrying capacity in the Pacific Northwest

Patrick Whalen, 2021
Master of Science - Early stand silviculture impacts on stand development and growth

Allison Harvey, 2020
Master of Science - Validation of USDA-NRCS soil moisture regimes through in-situ soil monitoring and plant association mapping

Halli Hemingway, 2020
Master of Science - A comparison of traditional site index vs. 10-meter method for estimating site productivity

Leslee Crawford, 2019
Master of Science - Temporal soil recovery rates following forest harvest impacts in the Blue Mountains, Oregon

Jessica Sarauer, 2018
Ph.D. - Greenhouse gas emissions from biochar-amended soils

Ann Abbott, 2017
Ph.D. - A Comparison of Regional and Site-Specific Biomass Equations for Northern Idaho Conifers

Lauren Sherman, 2017
Master of Science - Site conversion and biomass removal effects on greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient remediation planning

Ahlim Lee, 2017
Master of Science - Nutrient flux in soil: poplar plantation vs. agricultural land

Bhanu Bhattarai, 2015
Master of Science - Nutrient flux in soil: poplar plantation vs. agricultural land 

Christopher Chase, 2015
Master of Science - Resource availability in response to precommercial thinning at various initial site productivity and density

Shan Shan, 2013
Master of Science - Soil nitrogen along elevation gradients and biochar effects

Dan Smith, 2013
Master of Science - Effects of biochar on soil biochemical processes

Derrick Reeves, 2011
Master of Science - Timber harvest soil disturbance as modified by climate and landform

Kristin McElligott, 2011
Master of Science - Effects of biochar on forest soils

Contact Us

Intermountain Forestry Cooperative

Physical Address:
Mary Forney Hall 214
1210 Blake Avenue
Moscow, Idaho

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1133
Moscow, ID 83844-1133

Phone: 208-885-7520

Email: mkimsey@uidaho.edu

Web: uidaho.edu/cnr/ifc

Directions

Physical Address:
975 W. 6th Street
Moscow, Idaho

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1133
Moscow, ID 83844-1133

Phone: 208-885-7952

Email: frfs@uidaho.edu

Web: College of Natural Resources

google maps location