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"Wildlife Challenge" Databases

The wildlife challenge is a forest planning challenge: there are three increasingly difficult forest planning problems (non-spatial goals, minimum patch size goals, complementary patch goals), and we have applied several heuristic techniques to these problems using the spatial database that can be obtained below. A full description of the problems can be found in:

Bettinger, P., D. Graetz, K. Boston, J. Sessions, and W. Chung. 2002. Eight heuristic planning techniques applied to three increasingly difficult wildlife planning problems. Silva Fennica. 36:561-584.

The adjacency file is a text file containing a list of:

polygon, adjacent polygon

Text file of adjacency relationships

The forest file contains a list of:

polygon, age during period 1 (if not harvested), acres

Text file of forest data

The timber volume file is simply a text file:

Text file of timber volumes

Then there are 5 files associated with an ArcView database:

ArcView Shape file (1)

ArcView Shape file (2)

ArcView Shape file (3)

ArcView Shape file (4)

ArcView Shape file (5)

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