About Us

The Kress Modeler is a product of the KRESS Project which is a multi-state, multi-university research effort designed to facilitate analysis and management of landscapes. The KRESS Modeler is computerized multifactor decision making tool. It is the outgrowth of work that was done on a series of projects by the Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management at Oregon State University, Department of Agronomy and Range Science at the University of California/ Davis, and the USDA Agricultural Research Service that evaluated the suitability of various locations across a landscape for use by domestic livestock and wildlife.

We built the modeler, however, to be broadly useful across many types of systems. Since the systems in which we work are primarily resource based and involve lands used for domestic animals, water, and wildlife this program has a natural resource focus and the modeler reflects this natural resource/spatial perspective. Still its application can be much broader than the applications shown in our examples and tutorial. We sincerely hope that others will find the program useful and broaden its application.

The KRESS project team includes:

Douglas E. Johnson, KRESS Project Leader, OSU, Corvallis, OR

Mounir Louhaichi , Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Norman R. Harris, University of Alaska/Fairbanks, Palmer, AK.

Patrick E. Clark, NWRC, USDA/Agricultural Research Service, Boise, ID

David Ganskopp, USDA/Agricultural Research Service, Burns, OR

Michael D. Johnson, Supervisory Programmer, USC, Los Angeles, CA

Kipp E. Johnson, Programmer, USC, Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Melvin R. George, UC/Davis, Davis, CA is the Research Program Leader.