Associate Professor of Forest Products

email: cdehoop@lsu.edu

B.S. in Forestry - University of Kentucky, 1974
M.B.A. - Stephen F. Austin State University, 1983
Ph.D., Forest Science - Texas A&M University, 1991

• 12 years in forest industry

• 1 year US Forest Service

• 1 ½ years Hawaii Division of Forestry & Wildlife

• Worker accidents and safety
• environmental aspects of wood products
• processing
• wood residue utilization
• operations research
• expert systems/GIS applications to the forest products industry, and timber harvesting systems.

• Reduction of worker accidents and improving safety in logging and other sectors of the forest products industry.

• Utilization of woody biomass from both mill residues and from the forest.

RNR 3106 - Timber Harvesting, Spring

RNR 3107 - Timber Procurement, Spring

RNR 3038 - Field Studies in Timber Harvesting, Spring

RNR 3004 - Spatial Technologies, Fall

Greene, W.D., J.H. Mayo, C.F. de Hoop, A.F. Egan. 2003 In Press. Causes and Costs of Unused Logging Production Capacity in the Southern USA and Maine. Forest Products Journal. 38pp.

Lefort, A.J.,Jr., C.F. de Hoop, J.C. Pine and B.D. Marx. 2003. Characteristics of  Injuries in the Logging Industry in Louisiana, USA: 1986-1998. International Journal of Forest Engineering 14(2):75-89.

de Hoop, C.F., and A.J. Lefort1, Jr. 2003. Loggers and Bureaucrats: A Strategic Partnership Creates Better Accident Summaries and Safety Education. In: Yoshimura, T., ed., Proceedings of the Seminar on New Roles of Plantation Forestry Requiring Appropriate Tending and Harvesting Operations September 29 - October 5, 2002. International Union of Forestry Research Organisations (IUFRO) Tokyo 2002 Seminar and Japan Forest Engineering Society. Tokyo. P.376-384. ISBN 4-9901-493-0-0.

Smith, S., C. de Hoop, B. Marx and J. Pine. 1999. Logging injuries in Louisiana: nature, trends and rehabilitation considerations. Journal of Work 12(1999):261-273.

de Hoop, C.F., and N.J. Lalonde. 2003. Some Measured Levels of Noise Produced by Logging Equipment in 1998.Working Paper #58, Louisiana Forest Products Development Center; School of Renewable Natural Resources;
Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA. June 5. 8 pp.

de Hoop, C.F., W.R. Smith and A. Hanumappa Reddy. 2003. Reduction and Utilization of Forest Fuel Loading in Louisiana. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Council on Forest Engineering held at Bar Harbor, Maine.
Corvallis, OR. 5pp. www.cofe.org.

deHoop, C.F., A.F. Egan, W.D. Greene and J.H. Mayo. 2002. Profiles of Loggers and Logging Companies in Maine and the Southern States. Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Council on Forest Engineering, Corvallis, OR. 4pp. www.cofe.org.
 

Dinkins, C.C., IV, and C.F. de Hoop. 2003. Some Legal Aspects of Timber Sale Contracts. Working Paper #60,Louisiana Forest Products Development Center; School of Renewable Natural Resources; Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA. July 3. 6  pp.