Dr. Oliver has a wide geographic range of expertise. His research, teaching, and consulting have addressed managing forests efficiently. Much of his early work is incorporated in a book he wrote entitled Forest Stand Dynamics (1990, and update edition in 1996) with a former student as co-author. He is currently working on landscape approaches to management and global issues of forest management and is involved in the technical tools, the policies, and the management approaches. He was a member of the Science Panel at President Clinton’s Forest Conference in 1993, and has served on or chaired various scientific panels for the United States and Washington State executive and legislative branches of government, NAFTA, and the Society of American Foresters. Dr. Oliver is the author of more than 100 scientific and technical papers. His work has taken him to all parts of the United States and to Canada, Mexico, Turkey, Nepal, Japan, Thailand, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Ecuador, India, China, Germany, France, Austria, Ukraine, and Australia.