Sonja Kolstoe, PhD

Research Economist

Pacific Northwest Research Station

0000-0002-6022-0115

sonja.kolstoe@usda.gov

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Treesearch Publications

Amila Hadziomerspahic, Sonja Kolstoe, Steven Dundas. 2025. Cleaning matters! Lessons learned from comparing response behaviors and willingness to pay in probability- and non-probability samples
Charlotte Wachter, Jordan F. Suter, Jesse Burkhardt, Wes Austin, Beth M. Haley, Siyu Pan, Sonja Kolstoe. 2025. Characterizing community water systems exposed to wildfire in the Western U.S.
Andrea Watts, Sonja Kolstoe. 2024. Who’s in the crowd? Addressing bias in crowdsourced data
Monika Derrien, Samantha G. Winder, Spencer A. Wood, Lesley Miller, Emilia H. Lia, Lee K. Cerveny, Sarah Lange, Sonja Kolstoe, Grace McGrady, Anna Roth. 2024. Where wilderness is found: Evidence from 70,000 trip reports
Sonja Kolstoe, Abigail Kaminski, Anna Maher. 2023. Viewsheds and recreation demand: Approaches for capturing visual qualities of the landscape post-fire
Todd Guilfoos, Priya Thomas, Sonja Kolstoe. 2023. Estimating habit‐forming and variety‐seeking behavior: Valuation of recreational birdwatching
Brooke Penaluna, Jonathan Burnett, Kelly Christiansen, Ivan Arismendi, Sherri Johnson, Kitty Griswold, Brett Holycross, Sonja Kolstoe. 2022. UPRLIMET: UPstream Regional LiDAR Model for Extent of Trout in stream networks
Sonja Kolstoe, Jeffrey D. Kline, Luanne Lohr. 2022. Economic approaches for managing migratory bird habitat across multi-owner landscapes
Trudy Ann Cameron, Sonja Kolstoe. 2022. Using auxiliary population samples for sample-selection correction in models based on crowd-sourced volunteered geographic information
Sonja Kolstoe, Brian Vander Naald, Alison Cohan. 2022. A tale of two samples: Understanding WTP differences in the age of social media

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

Kolstoe, S. H. 2023. Congestible public good. In Dictionary of Ecological Economics (pp. 88-89). Edward Elgar Publishing.Kolstoe, S. H. 2023. Congestion. In Dictionary of Ecological Economics (pp. 89-89). Edward Elgar Publishing.Ordway, E. M., Elmore, A. J., Kolstoe, S., Quinn, J. E., Swanwick, R., Cattau, M., Taillie, D., Guinn, S.M., Chadwick, K.D., Atkins, J.W., Blake, R.E., Chapman, M., Cobourn, K., Goulden, T., Helmus, M.R., Hondula, K., Hritz, C., Jensen, J., Julian, J.P., Kuwayama, Y., Lulla, V., O’Leary, D., Nelson, D.R., Ocon, J.P., Pau, S., Ponce-Campos, G.E., Portillo-Quintero, C., Pricope, N.G., Rivero, R.G., Schneider, L., Steele, M., Tulbure, M.G., Williamson, M.A., and Wilson, C. . 2021. Leveraging the NEON Airborne Observation Platform for socio‐environmental systems research. Ecosphere, 12(6), e03640.Kolstoe, S., Cameron, T.A. and Wilsey, C., 2018. Climate, land cover, and bird populations: Differential impacts on the future welfare of birders across the Pacific Northwest. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 47(2), 272-310.Kolstoe, S. and Cameron, T.A., 2017. The non-market value of birding sites and the marginal value of additional species: biodiversity in a random utility model of site choice by eBird members. Ecological Economics, 137, 1-12.Riddel, M. and Kolstoe, S., 2013. Heterogeneity in life-duration preferences: Are risky recreationists really more risk loving?. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 46(2), 191-213.