Kurt Riitters, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Kevin M. Potter, Basil Iannone, Kurt Riitters, Qinfeng Guo, Karun Pandit, Christopher M. Oswalt. 2025. United States forests are increasingly invaded by problematic non-native plants
• Jennifer Costanza, Karen G. Schleeweis, Kurt Riitters. 2024. Fifteen-year changes in the landscape context of FIA forest land in the conterminous United States
• Kurt Riitters, Jennifer Costanza, Karen G. Schleeweis. 2024. Updating the sustainability indicators of forest cover fragmentation for the United States from 2001 to 2019
• Kevin M. Potter, Kurt Riitters, Basil V Iannone, Qinfeng Guo, Songlin Fei. 2024. Forest plant invasions in the eastern United States: evidence of invasion debt in the wildland-urban interface
• Peter Vogt, Kurt Riitters, José I Barredo, Jennifer Costanza, Bernd Eckhardt, Karen G. Schleeweis. 2024. Improving forest connectivity assessments using tree cover density maps
• Kurt Riitters, Peter Vogt. 2023. Mapping landscape ecological patterns using numeric and categorical maps
• Kurt Riitters, Jennifer Costanza, John W. Coulston, Peter Vogt, Karen G. Schleeweis. 2023. Interpreting image texture metrics applied to landscape gradient data
• Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston, Christopher Mihiar, Evan B. Brooks, Eric J. Greenfield, Mark D. D. Nelson, Grant M. Domke, Miranda H. Mockrin, David J. Lewis, David J. Nowak. 2023. Land Resources
• Jennifer Costanza, Frank H. H. Koch, Matt C. Reeves, Kevin M. Potter, Karen G. Schleeweis, Kurt Riitters, Sarah Anderson, Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Linda A. Joyce, Prakash Nepal, Benjamin Poulter, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, J. Morgan Varner, David M. Walker. 2023. Disturbances to Forests and Rangelands
• Kevin M. Potter, Kurt Riitters, Qinfeng Guo. 2022. Non-native tree regeneration indicates regional and national risks from current invasions.
• Brett J. Butler, Jesse Caputo, Jesse Henderson, Scott A. Pugh, Kurt Riitters, Emma M. Sass. 2022. An assessment of the sustainability of family forests in the U.S.A.
• Brett J. Butler, Jesse Caputo, Jesse Henderson, Scott A. Pugh, Kurt Riitters, Emma M. Sass. 2022. Cross-Boundary Sustainability: Assessment across Forest Ownership Categories in the Conterminous USA Using the Montréal Process Criteria and Indicators Framework
• Peter Vogt, Kurt Riitters, Pierrick Rambaud, Rémi d'Annunzio, Erik Lindquist, Anssi Pekkarinen. 2022. GuidosToolbox Workbench: spatial analysis of raster maps for ecological applications
• Kevin M. Potter, Kurt Riitters. 2021. A national multi-scale assessment of regeneration deficit as an indicator of potential risk of forest genetic variation loss
• Kurt Riitters, Guy Robertson. 2021. The United States' implementation of the Montréal Process indicator of forest fragmentation
• Kurt Riitters, Karen G. Schleeweis, Jennifer Costanza. 2020. Forest Area Change in the Shifting Landscape Mosaic of the Continental United States from 2001 to 2016
• Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Kurt Riitters, David N. Wear. 2020. Using a hybrid demand-allocation algorithm to enable distributional analysis of land use change patterns
• Samuel F. Ward, Benjamin S. Taylor, Kelly-Ann Dixon Hamil, Kurt Riitters, Songlin Fei. 2020. Effects of terrestrial transport corridors and associated landscape context on invasion by forest plants
• Jesse Caputo, Brett J. Butler, Thomas Brandeis, Kurt Riitters. 2020. Changes in land use, forest ownership, parcel size, and fragmentation in forests of the U.S. South
• Collin Homer, Jon Dewitz, Suming Jin, George Xian, Catherine Costello, Patrick Danielson, Leila Gass, Michelle Funk, James Wickham, Stephen Stehman, Roger Auch, Kurt Riitters. 2020. Conterminous United States land cover change patterns 2001–2016 from the 2016 National Land Cover Database
• Mark D. D. Nelson, Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston, Grant M. Domke, Eric J. Greenfield, Linda Langner, David J. Nowak, Claire O'Dea, Sonja Oswalt, Matt C. Reeves, David N. Wear. 2020. Defining the United States land base: a technical document supporting the USDA Forest Service 2020 RPA assessment
• J. Wickham, Kurt Riitters. 2019. Influence of high-resolution data on the assessment of forest fragmentation
• Kurt Riitters. 2019. Chapter 6: National Update of Forest Fragmentation Indicators, 2001–2011
• Kurt Riitters. 2019. Pattern metrics for a transdisciplinary landscape ecology
• Qinfeng Guo, Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. H. Koch, Kurt Riitters. 2019. Impacts of nonnative species on the health of natural and planted forests
• Kurt Riitters, Kevin M. Potter. 2019. Chapter 6 - The invasibility and invadedness of Eastern U.S. forest types
• Jennifer Costanza, Kurt Riitters, Peter Vogt, James Wickham. 2019. Describing and analyzing landscape patterns: where are we now, and where are we going?
• Kurt Riitters, Kevin M. Potter, Basil Iannone, Christopher M. Oswalt, Qinfeng Guo, Songlin Fei. 2018. Exposure of protected and unprotected forest to plant invasions in the eastern United States
• Qinfeng Guo, Kurt Riitters, Kevin M. Potter. 2018. A subcontinental analysis of forest fragmentation effects on insect and disease invasion
• Kurt Riitters, Jennifer Costanza. 2018. The landscape context of family forests in the United States: Anthropogenic interfaces and forest fragmentation from 2001 to 2011
• Brian Buma, Jennifer Costanza, Kurt Riitters. 2017. Determining the size of a complete disturbance landscape: multi-scale, continental analysis of forest change
• Kurt Riitters, Kevin M. Potter, Basil V. Iannone, Christopher M. Oswalt, Songlin Fei, Qinfeng Guo. 2017. Landscape correlates of forest plant invasions: A high-resolution analysis across the eastern United States
• Peter Vogt, Kurt Riitters. 2017. GuidosToolbox: universal digital image object analysis
• Kurt Riitters, Jennifer Costanza, Brian Buma. 2017. Interpreting multiscale domains of tree cover disturbance patterns in North America
• James Wickham, Kurt Riitters, Peter Vogt, Jennifer Costanza, Anne Neale. 2017. An inventory of continental U.S. terrestrial candidate ecological restoration areas based on landscape context
• J. Rogan, T.M. Wright, J. Cardille, H. Pearsall, Y. Ogneva-Himmelberger, Rachel Riemann, Kurt Riitters, K. Partington. 2016. Forest fragmentation in Massachusetts, USA: a town-level assessment using Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis and affinity propagation
• Kurt Riitters, James Wickham, Jennifer Costanza, Peter Vogt. 2016.  A global evaluation of forest interior area dynamics using tree cover data from 2000 to 2012
• Denys Yemshanov, Frank Koch, Kurt Riitters, Brian McConkey, Ted Huffmand, Stephen Smithe. 2015. Assessing land clearing potential in the Canadian agriculture–forestry interface with a multi-attribute frontier approach
• Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickam. 2015. Detailed assessment of the decline of core forest in the Conterminous United States
• Mark D. D. Nelson, Curtis H. Flather, Kurt Riitters, Carolyn H. Sieg, James D. Garner. 2015. National report on sustainable forests—2015: conservation of biological diversity
• Mark D. D. Nelson, Guy Robertson, Kurt Riitters. 2015. Conserving forest biological diversity: How the Montreal Process helps achieve sustainability
• Susan Will-Wolf, Randall Morin, Mark J. Ambrose, Kurt Riitters, Sarah Jovan. 2014. Chapter 6 - Links between land cover and lichen species richness at large scales in forested ecosystems across the United States.
• Giovanni Zurlini, Kenneth Bruce Jones, Kurt Riitters, Bai-Lian Li, Irene Petrosillo. 2014. Early warning signals of regime shifts from cross-scale connectivity of land-cover patterns
• J. Wickham, T.G. Wade, Kurt Riitters. 2014. An isoline separating relatively warm from relatively cool wintertime forest surface temperatures for the southeastern United States
• Paul L. Patterson, James Alegria, Leonard Jolley, Doug Powell, J. Jeffery Goebel, Gregg M. Riegel, Kurt Riitters, Craig Ducey. 2014. Multi-agency Oregon Pilot: Working towards a national inventory and assessment of rangelands using onsite data
• Kurt Riitters, Kevin M. Potter. 2013. Forest health monitoring in the United States: focus on national reports
• Kurt Riitters, Kevin E. Percy. 2013. Forest monitoring methods in the United States and Canada: An overview
• Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston. 2013. Fragmentation of eastern United States forest types
• Giovanni Zurlini, Irene Petrosillo, Kenneth Bruce Jones, Bai-Lian Li, Kurt Riitters, Pietro Medagli, Silvano Marchiori, Nicola Zaccarelli. 2013. Towards the planning and design of disturbance patterns across scales to counter biological invasions
• Kurt Riitters. 2013. Fragmentation of forest, grassland, and shrubland
• James D. Wickham, Timothy G. Wade, Kurt Riitters. 2013. Empirical analysis of the influence of forest extent on annual and seasonal surface temperatures for the Continental United States
• Kurt Riitters. 2012. Online maps for visualizing landscape patterns at high spatial resolution
• Kurt Riitters. 2012. Landscape pattern and context of forest and grassland in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico
• Kurt Riitters, James Wickham. 2012. Temporal trends of forest interior conditions in the United States
• Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham. 2012. Decline of forest interior conditions in the conterminous United States
• Timothy G. Wade, Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham. 2012. Comparison of cropland and forest surface temperatures across the conterminous United States
• Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, Timothy G. Wade, Peter Vogt. 2012. Global survey of anthropogenic neighborhood threats to conservation of grass-shrub and forest vegetation
• Kurt Riitters. 2011. The landscape context of forest and grassland in the United States
• Kurt Riitters. 2011. Creativity abhors prescription
• Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston, James Wickham. 2011. Fragmentation of forest communities in the eastern United States
• James Wickham, Timothy Wade, Kurt Riitters. 2011. An environmental assessment of United States drinking water watersheds
• Kurt Riitters. 2011. Spatial patterns of land cover in the United States: a technical document supporting the Forest Service 2010 RPA Assessment
• Stephen R. R. Shifley, Curtis H. Flather, Bill Smith, Kurt Riitters, Carolyn H. Sieg. 2010. Status and progress in large-scale assessment of biological diversity in the United States
• J.D Wickham, Kurt Riitters, T.G. Wade, P. Vogt. 2010. A national assessment of green infrastructure and change for the conterminous United States using morphological image processing
• Kurt Riitters. 2009. Fragmentation
• Kurt Riitters, James Wickham, Timothy Wade. 2009. Evaluating anthropogenic risk of grassland and forest habitat degradation using land-cover data
• Timothy G. Wade, James D. Wickham, Nicola Zacarelli, Kurt Riitters. 2009. A multi-scale method of mapping urban influence
• Kurt Riitters, Peter Vogt, Pierre Soille, Christine Estreguil. 2009. Landscape patterns from mathematical morphology on maps with contagion
• Peter Vogt, Joseph R. Ferrari, Todd R. Lookingbill, Robert H. Gardner, Kurt Riitters, Katarzyna Ostapowicz. 2009. Mapping functional connectivity
• Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, Timothy G. Wade. 2009. An indicator of forest dynamics using a shifting landscape mosaic
• Kurt Riitters, Greg Reams. 2008. Applications of national land cover maps in United States forestry
• Katarzyna Ostapowicz, Peter Vogt, Kurt Riitters, Jacek Kozak, Christine Estreguil. 2008. Impact of scale on morphological spatial pattern of forest
• Nicola1 Zaccarelli, Petrosillo, Irene, Giovanni Zurlini, Kurt Riitters. 2008. Source/sink patterns of disturbance and cross-scale mismatches in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes
• James D. Wickham, Timothy G. Wade, Kurt Riitters. 2008. Detecting Temporal Change in Watershed Nutrient Yields
• James D. Wickham, Kurt Riitters, Timothy G. Wade, Collin Homer. 2008. Temporal change in fragmentation of continental US forests
• Nicola Zaccarelli, Irene Petrosillo, Giovanni Zurlini, Kurt Riitters. 2008. Source/sink patterns of disturbance and cross-scale mismatches in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes
• James D. Wickham, Timothy G. Wade, Kurt Riitters. 2008. Detecting temporal change in watershed nutrient yields
• Mark J. Ambrose, Barbara Conkling, Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston. 2008. The forest health monitoring national technical reports: examples of analyses and results from 2001-2004
• Giovanni Zurlini, Irene Petrosillo, Nicola Zaccarelli, Kurt Riitters. 2008. Environmental security as related to scale mismatches of disturbance patterns in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes
• K. Bruce Jones, Curtis E. Edmonds, E. Terrance Slonecker, James D. Wickham, Anne C. Neale, Timothy G. Wade, Kurt Riitters, William G. Kepner. 2008. Detecting changes in riparian habitat conditions based on patterns of greenness change: a case study from the upper San Pedro River Basin, USA
• Kurt Riitters. 2007. Forest Fragmentation
• Kurt Riitters, Christine Estreguil. 2007. International research to monitor sustainable forest spatial patterns: proceedings of the 2005 IUFRO World Congress symposium
• William Bechtold, Kurt Riitters. 2007. The historical background, framework, and the application of forest health monitoring in the United States
• Giovanni Zurlini, Kurt Riitters, Nicola Zaccarelli, Irene Petrosoillo. 2007. Patterns of disturbance at multiple scales in real and simulated landscapes
• J.D. Wickham, Kurt Riitters, T.G. Wade, J.W. Coulston. 2007. Temporal change in forest fragmentation at multiple scales
• J.D. Wickham, Kurt Riitters, T.G. Wade, M. Coan, C. Homer. 2007. The effect of Appalachian mountaintop mining on interior forest
• Peter Vogt, Kurt Riitters, Marcin Iwanowski, Christine Estreguil, Jacek Kozak, Pierre Soille. 2007. Mapping landscape corridors
• N. Zaccarelli, Kurt Riitters, I. Petrosillo, G. Zurlini. 2007. Indicating disturbance content and context for preserved areas
• Kurt Riitters, Peter Vogt, Pierre Soille, Jacek Kozak, Christine Estreguil. 2007. Neutral model analysis of landscape patterns from mathematical morphology
• G. Zurlini, Kurt Riitters, N. Zaccarelli, I. Petrosillo, K.B. Jones, L. Rossi. 2006. Disturbance patterns in a socio-ecological system at multiple scales
• Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, Timothy G. Wade. 2006. Evaluating ecoregions for sampling and mapping land-cover patterns
• Peter Vogt, Kurt Riitters, Christine Estreguil, Jacek Kozak, Timothy G. Wade, James D. Wickham. 2006. Mapping spatial patterns with morphological image processing
• John W. Coulston, Kurt Riitters, Ronald E. McRoberts, William D. Smith. 2006. True versus perturbed forest inventory plot locations for modeling: a simulation study
• Dvid Coblentz, Kurt Riitters. 2005. A quantitative topographic analysis of the Sky Islands: a closer examination of the topography-biodiversity relationship in the Madrean Archipelago [Abstract]
• David Coblentz, Kurt Riitters. 2005. A quantitative topographic analysis of the Sky Islands: a closer examination of the topography-biodiversity relationship in the Madrean Archipelago
• James D. Wickham, Kurt Riitters, Timothy G. Wade, K. Bruce Jones. 2005. Evaluating the relative roles of ecological regions and land-cover composition for guiding establishment of nutrient criteria
• H. Ken Cordell, Danielle Murphy, Kurt Riitters, J.E. Harvard. 2005. The human context and natural character of wilderness lands
• John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose, Kurt Riitters, Barbara Conkling, William D. Smith. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2003 national technical report
• John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose, Kurt Riitters, Barbara Conkling. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2002 national technical report
• John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose, Kurt Riitters, Barbara Conkling. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2004 national technical report
• Kurt Riitters. 2005. Downscaling Indicators of Forest Habitat Structure from National Assessments
• John W. Coulston, Kurt Riitters. 2005. Preserving biodiversity under current and future climates: a case study
• Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston. 2005. Environmental assessment hot spots of perforated forest in the eastern United States
• H. Ken Cordell, Danielle Murphy, Kurt Riitters, J.E. Harvard. 2005. The natural ecological value of wilderness
• David N. Wear, John M. Pye, Kurt Riitters. 2004. Defining conservation priorities using fragmentation forecasts
• Kurt Riitters, James Wickham, John W. Coulston. 2004. Use of Road Maps in National Assessments of Forest Fragmentation in the United States
• Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, John W. Coulston. 2004. A preliminary assessment of Montreal process indicators of forest fragmentation for the United States
• John W. Coulston, Kurt Riitters, Grethchen C. Smith. 2004. A preliminary assessment of the Montréal process indicators of air pollution for the United States
• David D. Coblentz, Kurt Riitters. 2004. Topographic controls on the regional-scale biodiversity of the south-western USA
• Timothy G. Wade, Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, K. Bruce Jones. 2003. Distribution and Causes of Global Forest Fragmentation
• Timothy G. Wade, James D. Wickham, Maliha S. Nash, Anne C. Neale, Kurt Riitters, K. Bruce Jones. 2003. A Comparison of Vector and Raster GIS Methods for Calculating Landscape Metrics Used in Environmental Assessments
• James D. Wickham, Timothy G. Wade, Kurt Riitters, R.V. O’Neill, Jonathan H. Smith, Elizabeth (Liz) Smith, K.B. Jones, A.C. Neale. 2003. Upstream-to-downstream changes in nutrient export risk
• Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham. 2003. How far to the nearest road?
• John W. Coulston, Kurt Riitters. 2003. Geographic analysis of forest health indicators using spatial scan statistics
• Anne C. Neale, K. Bruce Jones, Maliha S. Nash, Rick D. Van Remortel, James D. Wickham, Kurt Riitters, Robert V. O'neil. 2003. Application of landscape models to alternative futures analyses
• Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston, James D. Wickham. 2003. Localizing National Fragmentation Statistics with Forest Type Maps
• Liem T. Tran, C. Gregory Knight, Robert V. O'Neill, Elizabeth (Liz) Smith, Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham. 2002. Fuzzy Decision Analysis for Integrated Environmental Vulnerability Assessment of the Mid-Atlantic Region
• Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, Robert V. O'Neill, K. Bruce Jones, Elizabeth (Liz) Smith, John W. Coulston, Timothy G. Wade, Jonathan H. Smith. 2002. Fragmentation of Continental United States Forests
• James D. Wickham, Robert V. Oneil, Kurt Riitters, Elizabeth (Liz) Smith, Timothy G. Wade, K. Bruce Jones. 2001. Geographic targeting of increases in nutrient export due to future urbanization
• K. Bruce Jones, Anne C. Neale, Timothy G. Wade, James D. Wickham, Chad L. Cross, Curtis M. Edmonds, Thomas R. Loveland, Maliha S. Nash, Kurt Riitters, Elizabeth (Liz) Smith. 2001. The consequences of landscape change on ecological resources: An assessment of the United States Mid-Atlantic region, 1973-1993
• K. Bruce Jones, Anne C. Neale, Malisha S. Nash, Rick D. van Remortel, James D. Wickham, Kurt Riitters, Robert V. O'Neill. 2001. Predicting nutrient and sediment loadings to streams from landscape metrics: A multiple watershed study from the United States Mid-Atlantic Region
• Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, R. O'Neill, B. Jones, E. Smith. 2000. Global-scale patterns of forest fragmentation
• James D. Wickham, Kurt Riitters, Robert V. O'Neill, Kenneth H. Reckhow, Timothy G. Wade, K. Bruce Jones. 2000. Land Cover as a Framework For Assessing the Risk of Water Pollution
• Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, James E. Vogelmann, K. Bruce Jones. 2000. National land-cover pattern data
• K. Bruce Jones, Anne C. Neale, Maliha S. Nash, Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, Robert V. O'Neill, Rick D. van Remortel. 2000. Landscape Correlates of Breeding Bird Richness Across the United States Mid-Atlantic Region
• Robert V. O'Neill, Kurt Riitters, J.D. Wickham, Bruce K. Jones. 1999. Landscape pattern metrics and regional assessment
• James D. Wickham, K. Bruce Jones, Kurt Riitters, Timothy G. Wade, Robert V. O'Neill. 1999. Transitions in forest fragmentation: implications for restoration opportunities at regional scales
• James D. Wickham, K.B. Jones, Kurt Riitters, R.V. O'Neill, R.D. Tankersley, E.R. Smith, A.C. Neale, D.J. Chaloud. 1999. An Integrated Environmental Assessment of the US Mid-Atlantic Region
• Kurt Riitters, R.V. O'Neill, K.B. Jones. 1997. Assessing Habitat Suitability at Multiple Scales: A Landscape-Level Approach
• Douglas H. Cain, Kurt Riitters, Kenneth Orvis. 1997. A multi-scale analysis of landscape statistics
• K. Bruce Jones, Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, Roger D. Tankersley, Robert V. O'Neill, Deborah J. Chaloud, Elizabeth (Liz) Smith, Anne C. Neale. 1997. An Ecological Assessment of the United States Mid-Atlantic Region: A Landscape Atlas
• James D. Wickham, Robert V. O'Neill, Kurt Riitters, Timothy G. Wade, K. Bruce Jones. 1997. Sensitivity of selected landscape pattern metrics to land-cover misclassification and differences in land-cover composition
• Robert V. O'Neill, Carolyn T. Hunsaker, K. Bruce Jones, Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, Paul M. Schwartz, Iris A. Goodman, Barbara L. Jackson, William S. Baillargeon. 1997. Monitoring environmental quality at the landscape scale
• Kurt Riitters, Robert V. O'Neill, James D. Wickham, K. Bruce Jones. 1996. A note on contagion indices for landscape analysis
• R.V. O'Neill, C.T. Hunsaker, S.P. Timmins, B.L. Jackson, K.B. Jones, Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham. 1996. Scale problems in reporting landscape pattern at the regional scale
• J. D. Wickham, Kurt Riitters. 1995. Sensitivity of landscape metrics to pixel size
• Kurt Riitters, R.V. O'Neill, C.T. Hunsaker, James D. Wickham, D.H. Yankee, S.P. Timmins, K.B. Jones, B.L. Jackson. 1995. A factor analysis of landscape pattern and structure metrics
• J.D. Wickham, T.G. Wade, K.B. Jones, Kurt Riitters, R.V. O'Neill. 1995. Diversity of ecological communities of the United States
• E.R. Smith, Kurt Riitters. 1994. A comparison of forest canopy transmittance estimators
• Beverly E. Law, Kurt Riitters, Lewis F. Ohmann. 1992. Growth in relation to canopy light interception in a red pine (Pinus resinosa) thinning study
• Kurt Riitters, B.E. Law, R.C. Kucera, A.L. Gallant, R.L. DeVelice, C.J. Palmer. 1992. A selection of forest condition indicators for monitoring
• Kurt Riitters, L.F. Ohmann, D.F. Grigal. 1991. Woody tissue analysis using an element ratio technique (DRIS)
• Kurt Riitters. 1990. Analysis of biweight site chronologies: relative weights of individual trees over time
• Kurt Riitters. 1990. Evenness indices measure the signal strength of biweight site chronologies
• Kurt Riitters. 1990. A comparison of chronologies from tree rings
• Kurt Riitters, Brian J. Stanton, Robbert H. Walkup. 1989. Factor levels for density comparisons in the split-block spacing design
• Kurt Riitters, David A. Perry. 1987. Early genetic evaluation of open-pollinated Douglas-fir families
• Kurt Riitters, J. Douglas Brodie. 1984. Implementing optimal thinning strategies
• David W. Hann, J. Douglas Brodie, Kurt Riitters. 1983. Optimum stand prescriptions for ponderosa pine
• Kurt Riitters, J. Douglas Brodie, David W. Hann. 1982. Dynamic programming for optimization of timber production and grazing in ponderosa pine
• Kurt Riitters, J. Douglas Brodie, Chiang Kao. 1982. Volume versus value maximization illustrated for Douglas-fir with thinning

Data and Tools

• Dashboard
  

  Resources Planning Act Assessment Data Explorer

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/dataandtools/resources-planning-act-assessment-data-explorer

• Center or Group
  

  Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (SRS-4854)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/centers/efetac
  Station

  Southern Research Station

Multimedia

• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Planning for Forests of the Future: Resources Planning Act - Land Resources and Outdoor Recreation

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-planning-forests-future-resources-planning-act-land

• Oregon State University, Ph.D., Forest Science (Silviculture), 1986
• University of Minnesota, M.F., Forest Management, 1978
• University of Minnesota, B.E.S., Elected Studies, 1976