Adair, C. and A. Schuler.  2006.  Continued Growth for Glulam, I- Beams, LVL. Panel World 42(5):3,66.

Grushecky, S., U. Buehlmann, A. Schuler, B. Luppold, E. Cesa.  2006.  Decline in the U.S. Furniture Zindustry: a Case Study of the Impacts to the Hardwood Lumber Supply Chain. Wood and Fiber Science 38(2):365-376.

Schuler, A. and U. Buehlmann.  2006.  Identifying Future Competitive Business Strategies for the U.S. Residential Wood Furniture Industry: Benchmarking and Paradigm Shifts. SDA Forest Service. Reprinted ( from USDA GTR NE-304) in: Icfaian Journal of Management Research 3(7):29-52.

Bumgardner, M., U. Buehlmann, A. Schuler and R. Christianson.  2004.  Domestic competitiveness in secondary wood industries. Products Journal 54( ):21-28.

Buehlmann, Urs, M. Bumgardner, A. Schuler, and B. Wisdom.  2004.  Does training pay?. Modern Woodworking June, pp. 27-31.

Buehlmann, U, M. Bumgardner, A. Schuler, and R. Christianson.  2003.  U.S. Competitiveness Study: How Can the U.S. Wood Products Industry Compete?. Wood and Wood Products 108(1):37-39,42-46.

Buehlmann, U, M. Bumgardner, A. Schuler, and R. Christianson.  2003.  U.S. competitiveness Study: How Furniture and Cabinet Manufactures Compare. Wood and Wood Products 108(6):49-51.

Adair, C. and A. Schuler.  2003.  Home building trends – the view among forest product marketing executive. Engineered Wood Journal 6(1):20-22.

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2003.  Construction sector developments. In: Forest Products Annual Market Analysis 2002-04, Timber Bulletin, Vol. LVI, ECE/TIM/Bull/2003/3, Chapter 3 - Main economic developments affecting forest product markets in 2002 and early 2003., FAO/ECE, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland October, pp. 29-33.

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2003.  Demographics, the housing market, and demand for building materials. Forest Products Journal 53(5):8-17.

Buehlmann, Urs and A. Schuler.  2002.  Benchmarking the wood household furniture industry in a global market. Wood Digest November, pp. 52-57.

Elmore, B. and A. Schuler.  2002.  Components use rising as builders streamline. In Random Lengths 58(22):1.

Hansen, B. C. West, P. Araman, and A. Schuler.  2001.  Hardwood Timber Markets – a Focus on Small Diameter. World Forestry Directions (2001):42,44.

Schuler, A., C. Adair, and E. Elias.  2001.  Engineered Lumber Products – Taking Their Place in the Global Market. Journal of Forestry 99(12):28-35.

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2001.  Supply and Demand: the Outlook for NA Structural Wood Panels. Engineered Wood Journal 4(1):16-20.

Schuler, A.  2001.  Demographics Offer Housing Market Clues. Yardstick 10(9):1-2.

Schuler, A. R. Taylor, and P. Araman.  2001.  Competitiveness of U.S. wood Furniture Manufacturers. Forest Products Journal 51(7/8):14-20.

Schuler, A., M. Bumgardner, B. Hansen, and B. Luppold.  2001.  Species shift – Implications of the Rising Use Hardwoods in OSB. Engineered Wood Journal 4(2):29-32.

Schuler, A.  2000.  MSR Business & Outlook. Engineered Lumber Trends 4(9):1-6.

Schuler, A.  2000.  Softwood Forest Economy – It’s Competitive, Dynamic, Healthy, and Global. Tree Talk 22(2):25-26,28-29.

Schuler, A., W. Thompson, I. Vertinsky, and Y. Ziv.  1991.  Cross Impact analysis of technological innovation and development in the softwood lumber industry in Canada: a structural modeling approach. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 38(3):236.

Schuler, A. and Q. Nguyen.  1989.  Bioconversion opportunities and strategies: a pragmatic approach. Forest Products Journal 39(4):33-38.

Schuler, A. and G. Brunette.  1987.  Competing in the 90’s with wooden pallets – some thoughts about competitive strategy and technology deployment. Pallet Enterprise 7(1):57-58.

Schuler, A. and W. B. Wallin.  1980.  Report on an econometric model for domestic pallet markets. Forest Products Journal 30(7):27-29.

Schuler, A.  1979.  An econometric model of the U.S. Insulation board market. Forest Products Journal 29(8):21-25.

Steuer, R., and A. Schuler.  1979.  An interactive multi-objective linear programming approach to a problem in forest management. Journal of Forest Ecology and Management 2(3):240-256.

Steuer, R. and A. Schuler.  1978.  An interactive multi objective linear programming approach to a problem in forest management. Operations Research Journal 26(2):254-269.

Schuler, A., J. Meadows, and H. Webster.  1977.  Goal programming in forest management. Journal of Forestry 75(6):320-324.

Schuler, A., and J. Meadows.  1975.  Planning resource use on National Forests to achieve multiple objectives. Journal of Environmental Management 3(4):351-366.

Buehlmann, Urs, Matthew Bumgardner, and Al Schuler.  2008.  Impact on the secondary wood processing industry of the housing downturn: Analysis.  Forestweb – iiHub. July 2008. http://my.forestweb.com/iiHub/index.cfm?event=news.read&id=1177686288 .

Schuler, A., C. Adair.  2006.  Constructor sector developments – North America and Europe.  In: Forest Products Annual Market Review, 2005 - 2006., Chapter 3., section 3.2, pp. 36 – 39. UNECE/FAO, Timber and Forest Study Paper 21(ECE/TIM/SP/21) Geneva.

Schuler, A., C. Adair and P. Winistorfer.  2006.  Surviving a Sea of Change.  Publication #85, republished in full in Southern Lumberman, January 2006 issue.

Adair, C. and A. Schuler.  2006.  North American Engineered Wood product markets.  In: Annual Forest Products Market Review., Chapter 11, pp.117 - 122. . UNECE/FAO, Timber and Forest Study Paper 21(ECE/TIM/SP/21) Geneva.

Ince, P., A. Schuler, H. Spelter, and B. Luppold.  2006.  Globalization and Structural change in the U.S. forest sector: an evolving context for sustainable forest management.  USDA forest Service GTR series (in press).

Buehlmann,U, M. Bumgardner, A.Schuler, and M. Barford.  2006.  Assessing the Impacts of Global Competition on the Appalachian Hardwood Industry.  FPJ – in press.

Schuler, A., C. Adair.  2005.  Constructor sector developments – North America and Europe.  In: Annual Forest Products Market Review, 2004 - 2005., Chapter 3., pp. 36 – 38. UNECE/FAO , Timber Bulletin, Vol. LVIII (2005). Geneva.

Schuler, A. and Peter Ince.  2005.  Global trade in forest products: Implications for the forest products industry and timber resources in New England.  IN: Proceedings of the New England Society of American Foresters 85th Winter Meeting,. Editor, Laura Kenefic and mark Twery. March 2005, page 24. Published as: USDA FS GTR NE-325. .

Schuler, A., C. Adair, and P. Winistorfer.  2005.  Challenge and Response – Strategies for survival in a rapidly changing forest products industry.  Engineered Wood Journal, Fall 2005. APA – the Engineered Wood Association, Tacoma, WA.

Bumgardner, M., U. Buehlmann, A. Schuler, and B. Wisdom.  2005.  Approaches to and perceived benefits of training in the 2nd wood industry.  Wood and Fiber Science, August 2005. Refeered.

Adair, C. and A. Schuler.  2005.  North American Engineered wood Product Markets.  In: Annual Forest Products Market Review., Chapter 10, pp.101 - 106. UNECE/FAO Timber Bulletin, Vol. LVIII (2005). Geneva.

Schuler, A.  2005.  Response to Essays on Maine’s Forest Products Industry and It’s Place in the Global Marketplace.  – essays written by Dr. Lloyd Irland and Dr. Jim Bowyer – Response to these essays written by Al Schuler, Appendix B, pp. 423-426. In: Maine’s Future Forest Economy Project – Current Conditions and Factors Influencing the Future of Maine’s Forest Products Industry; Prepared for the Maine Forest Service, by Innovative Natural Resource Solutions; Portland, Maine.

Adair, C. and A. Schuler.  2004.  North American engineered wood products markets.  In: Forest Products Annual Market Review, 2003-2004, Chapter 10, Section 10.2. Timber Bulletin, Volume LVII (2004), No.3. FAO/ECE, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Pp. 71-73. .

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2004.  Construction sector developments.  In: Forest Products Annual Market Review, 2003-2004, Chapter 3, section 3.2. Timber Bulletin, Volume LVII (2004), No.3. FAO/ECE, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Pp.24-26. .

Motsenbocker, D., P. Steele, S. Hunter, S. Bullard, and A. Schuler.  2004.  Wood furniture components: Implementation of flow-line technology based on lean manufacturing concepts.  Forest and wildlife Research center, Bulletin FP333, Mississippi State University, 16p.

Hunter,S., S. Bullard, P. Steele, D. Motsenbocker, and A. Schuler.  2004.  Parallel pull flow: a new lean production variant.  Research Bulletin FP312, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State university, 12p.

Schuler, A. and U. Buehlmann.  2003.  Identifying Future Competitive Business Strategies for the U.S. Residential Wood Furniture Industry: Benchmarking and Paradigm Shifts.  USDA Forest Service. GTR NE-304. 15 pages.

Buehlmann, Urs, A. Schuler, and U. Nwagbara.  2003.  North America’s furniture manufacturers under severe competitive pressure.  In: Smart-fm Newsletter, No.3, September 2003, pages 3-6. Smart-fm is a standards compliant framework to support integrated product life cycle information management, and electronic commerce for the furniture industry. Popularized and shortened version of publication #57. Available at: ( http://www.smart-fm.funstep.org).

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2003.  Engineered Wood Products – an Opportunity to Grow the Pie.  In : Proceedings, 37th International Wood Composite Materials Symposium. April, 2003. Pullman, WA.

M. Bumgardner, U. Buehlmann, A. Schuler, and R. Christianson.  2003.  Domestic Wood Prodcut Manufacturing Trends and Factors to Enhance Competitiveness.  Proceedings: 17th International Conference on Production Enterprise Integration. . Editor: Michael P. Deisenroth , August , 2003. pp.1-7. VPI&SU, Blacksburg, Va (contribution: 25%).

Adair, C. and A. Schuler.  2003.  Engineered Wood Products.  In: Forest Products Annual Market Analysis 2002-04,, Timber Bulletin, Vol. LVI, ECE/TIM/Bull/2003/3, Chapter 10, Trade in Secondary processed wood Products slowed: Value added wood Products Markets, 2001-2003., United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. October 2003. p 95-97. Refeered. (contribution: Incumbent wrote 50% of the article – a section of chapter 10 in the Bulletin). .

de Steiguer, J.E., L. Liberti, A. Schuler, and B. Hansen.  2003.  Multi-Criteria Decision Models for Forestry and Natural Resources Management: an annotated Bibliography.  Gen. Tech, Rep. NE-307. Newtown Square, PA. USDA, Forest service, NE Research Station. 32p. (contribution: 10 to 15% in writing and concept design) .

Buehlmann, U. and A. Schuler.  2003.  U.S. Furniture Manufacturing’s Struggle with Imported Products.  Proceedings: 17th International Conference on Production Enterprise Integration. Editor: Michael P. Deisenroth , August , 2003. , p. 1-5. VPI&SU, Blacksburg, Va. (contribution ; 50%).

Buehlmann, U. A. Schuler, and Uch Nchemba.  2003.  Globalization and North Carolina’s Wood Product Industries.  Popularized version of publication #57, published on the Forestweb website(www.forestweb.com). October 11 issue. Head office, Los Angeles, CA.

Tissari, J. , Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2003.  Value Added wood Products Markets, 2001-2003.  ECE/TIM/DP/36. October 2003. UN publication – discussion Paper, Geneva, Switzerland. Refereed.

Schuler, A. and Urs Buehlmann.  2003.  “Time to Reinvent”.  This is a popularization of publication # 61 with minor modifications by the editor of Timber Processing magazine – Rich Donnell. Rich broke GTR – NE 304 into two parts: “Time to reinvent”; and “Its Not too late”. “Time to Reinvent” appeared in the October issue of Timber Processing; pages22-27. Hatton-Brown Publications, Montgomery, AL. Part two, “Its’ Not too Late”, appeared in the November/December issue of Timber Processing – pages 32-34, 36, 38,- 40.

Buehlmann, Urs and A. Schuler.  2002.  Benchmarking the wood Household Furniture Industry.  Woodworking Machinery Industry Association Newsletter, November 2002.(www.wmia.org/newsletter ).

Buehlmann, Urs, and A. Schuler.  2002.  BM the wood household furniture industry: A Basis for identifying competitive strategies for today’s global economy.  In: Proceedings: NHLA annual meeting, “Current topics in the Processing and Utilization of Hardwood Lumber”: p. 122- 128. Fall Creek Falls State Park, Falls Creek Falls,Tennessee, May 30 – June 1, 2002. (contribution: Incumbent wrote 60% of the article).

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2002.  North American Construction Market.  In: Forest Product Annual Market Review, 2001 – 2002, Timber Bulletin, Vol. LV, ECE/TIM/Bull/55/3, Chapter 2, Economic factors affecting forest product markets, FAO/ECE, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. September 2002. p 19-21. Refeered. (contribution: incumbent wrote 75% of the article).

Nwagbara, Ucheoma, Urs Buehlmann, and A. Schuler.  2002.  The impact of globalization on North Carolina’s furniture industries.  N.C. State Dept of Commerce Report. 45p. Available on North Carolina’s website: (http://cmedis.commerce.state.nc.us/ ).

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2002.  European Construction Markets.  In: Forest Product Annual Market Review, 2001 - 2002, Timber Bulletin, Vol. LV, ECE/TIM/Bull/55/3, Chapter 2, Economic factors affecting forest product markets, FAO/ECE, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. September 2002. p. 22-27. Refeered. (contribution: incumbent wrote 75% of the article).

Adair, C. and A. Schuler.  2002.  Engineered Wood Products.  In: Forest Product Annual Market Review, 2001 – 2002., Timber Bulletin, Vol. LV, ECE/TIM/Bull/55/3, Chapter 12, Trade in value added forest products …; Market Developments for value added forest products, FAO/ECE, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. September 2002. p. 173-177. (contribution: Incumbent wrote 50% of the article). Refeered .

Adair, C. and A. Schuler.  2002.  North American Engineered Wood Framings Markets, 2001 – 2002.  C.C. Crow’s Publications, Inc. Volume 60, July/August 2002, pages 26-29. (this article was revised from one originally prepared and published by UNECE/FAO – Publication #53).

Schuler, A.  2001.  1. Growth Opportunities for Hardwood LVL, 2. Implications for Hardwood Forest Sustainability.  Two chapters prepared for COOP agreement between Northern Initiatives, and WERC (Wood Education & Research Center). # 00-CA-11244225-344. Purpose of COOP is to assess RED Maple LVL – Resource and Manufacturing Economics. .

Adair, C. and A. Schuler.  2001.  Secondary Processed Wood Products’ Markets, including Engineered Wood Products.  Forest Products Annual Market Review, Chapter 11, “Secondary processed wood products markets, including engineered wood products”, FAO/ECE Timber Section. United Nations, Geneva, Geneva. We wrote part of chapter 11, pertaining to EWP’s, Section 11.7 “Engineered wood products markets in 2000 and 2001”, pp. 130-132. Refereed.

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2001.  Economic Factors affecting forest product markets in 2000 and early 2001.  Forest Products Annual Market Review, Chapter 2, “Economic factors affecting forest products markets in 2000 and early 2001”., FAO/ECE Timber Section. United Nations, NY and Geneva. We wrote one subsection in Chapter 2 – Section 2.2.1: “North American residential construction”, pp. 9-11. Refereed.

Luppold, W., J. Prestemon, and A. Schuler.  2001.  The Changing Markets for Hardwood Roundwood.  In: Proceedings SOFEW Annual Meeting, March, 2001, Atlanta, GA. (contribution: 20% - incumbent provided the engineered wood products section, data, analysis, etc.).

Schuler, A. and R. Taylor.  2001.  US – Mobelindustrie verliert heimischen Markt.  (US Furniture Industry – Past and present). Holz-Zentralblatt, Number 6, page 105. (contribution: 65% - this article was paraphrased from a presentation prepared by the authors for the 2000 annual FPS meeting in Lake Tahoe).

Bumgardner, M., B. Hansen, P. Araman, and A. Schuler.  2001.  Options for Small – Diameter Hardwood Utilization: Past and Present.  In. Proceedings , Hardwoods, an underdeveloped resource? SOFEW Annual meeting, Lexington, KY. 2000. p. 1-8.

Buehlmann, Urs, and A. Schuler.  2001.  Geringe Rentabilitat in der Mobelproduktion. (U.S. Furniture Industry – Problems and Opportunities.).  Holz and Kunststoffverarbeitung (Woodworking and Furniture Industries) trade journal, September 2001 Issue, pp. 39-41. Publisher: DRW-Verlag Weinbrenner, GmbH & Co.; D 70771 Leinfelden-Echteringen. (contribution: 40%; incumbent analyzed data, drew conclusions, prepared charts/graphs, and wrote about half the paper).

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2001.  OSB Producers Face Capacity Expansion Dilemma.  Yardstick, Vol 11, No. 4: 1-2. Random Lengths Publications, Eugene, Oregon. April, 2001. (contribution: 65% - incumbent wrote the manuscript, did the analysis, while Craig Adair provided the data).

Hansen, B. , C. West, P. Araman, and A. Schuler.  2001.  Hardwood Timber Product Markets with a Focus on Small Diameter.  In: Proceedings, SAF Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, September, 1999. P. 305 - 311.

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2001.  Supply and Demand – The outlook for North American Structural Wood Panels.  This is a popularized/shortened version of publication # 37. To appear in January 2002, World Forestry Directions, a UK publication. Issue 2001, Published by Sterling Publications Ltd., London, UK. (contribution: 60%: same as pub. # 37).

Buehlmann, Urs, and A. Schuler.  2001.  Zukunftige Productions – und Verkaufsstrukturen am Beispel des Nordamerikanischen Mobelmarktes.  In Proceedings: Bavaria Innovativ, Rosenheim, Germany, March 6-6, 2001. (contribution: 40% - incumbent analyzed the data and wrote 40% of the article).

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2000.  Engineered Wood Products – Global Perspective.  Engineered Lumber Trends,, Vol. 4, No. 12. pp1, 5,6. Published by the Irland Group, Maine.

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2000.  Engineered Wood Products- Production, Trade, Consumption and Outlook.  Forest Products Annual Market Review, Chapter 11, FAO/ECE Timber Section. United Nations, NY and Geneva. P131-146. Refereed.

Schuler, A.  2000.  Engineered Wood Products: a Growing Factor in Hardwood Fiber Consumption.  In. Proceedings of Annual Hardwood Symposium, Canaan Valley, WV, May 11-13, 2000. p.1-6.

Schuler, A.  1999.  North American Lumber and Panel Market Outlook, 1999-2000.  In Proceedings: International Conference on global Markets for Value Added Wood Products. June 1-2, 1999. Halifax, NS Canada.

Schuler, A.  1993.  Some remarks on the correlation between public sector market research and industry needs.  FPS abstract. FPS annual meeting, Clearwater, FL.

Schuler, A. and J. Meil.  1990.  Markets, Products and Technology in the 21st Century – a Canadian solid wood products perspective.  The Forestry Chronicle, December 1990. Refereed.

Schuler, A., J.Meil, G. Brunette, and A. Howatson.  1989.  The Forintek Economics Dept. produced a series of 12 Techno Economic Bulletins (2 page maximum) identifying pertinent issues and trends and Impact on the forest products industry.  Biocontrol agents: trends concerning use and regulation(1/89) Implications of structural change (2/89) Accelerated Product life cycles (3/89) Value added and technology feasibility limits (4/89) Corporate restructuring (5/89) Opportunities in non-residential construction (6/89) Resource availability (7/89) World trends in forest product consumption and trade (8/89) Third world housing (9/89) U.S. hardwood/softwood lumber substitution (10/89) Trading up to manufactured housing (11/89) .

Schuler, A.  1989.  Selecting a competitive strategy for the future.  Canadian Forest Industries, February 1989. 3p.

Schuler, A. and W.B. Wallin.  1983.  A revised econometric model of the domestic pallet market.  USDA Forest Service Research Paper NE 522, 5p (contribution: 80% - incumbent wrote 80% of paper, and developed the model).

Schule.r, A. and W.B. Wallin.  1979.  An Econometric model of the U.S. pallet market.  USDA FS Research Paper NE 449. (contribution: incumbent 70% : I wrote most of the paper, completed the model analysis, and researched the subject).

Schuler, A.  1979.  Using econometric models to analyze wood product markets.  FPS Abstract. FPS annual meeting, San Francisco, 1979.

Schuler, A.  1979.  An econometric model of the U.S. pallet market.  FPS Abstract. FPS annual meeting, San Francisco, 1979.

Schuler, A.  1978.  An econometric analysis of the U.S. hardboard industry.  FPS abstract. FPS annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Schuler, A.  1978.  An econometric analysis of the U.S. Hardboard market.  USDA FS Research Paper NE – 424, 7 p.

Schuler, A.  1978.  The insulation board industry – an econometric analysis.  USDA FS Research Paper NE-497, 8p.

Meadows, J., H. Webster, D. Countryman, and A. Schuler.  1977.  Guides for profitable allocation of Lakes states timber management budgets.  Journal paper No. J-8412 of the Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Exper. Station, Ames, Iowa. 92 p. (contribution: 25% - the incumbent helped collect data and analyzed two case studies that were integral part of the ms.).

Meadows, J. and A. Schuler.  1976.  Nonlinear programming and the decreasing marginal utility problem: a goal programming framework for decision.  In proceedings: 12th annual meeting, SE Chapter, TIMS (ed. By M. Holland). TIMS, p. 307-314. (contribution: 35% - the incumbent helped conceive the study, research the topic, and write 1/3rd of the ms.).

Schuler, A.  1975.  Multiple – Use Resource Management on National Forest via goal programming.  Ph. D. Dissertation, Iowa State university, Ames, IA. 225 p.

Schuler, A. and J. Meadows.  1974.  Goal Programming algorithms used in multi – objective planning.  In proceedings: 10 th annual meeting, SE Chapter, The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS), ed. By M. Golden and R. Schumacher. P. 240-245. (contribution: 90% - the incumbent conceived the study, and wrote the paper).

Buehlmann, Urs and Al Schuler.  2008.  Research and industry activities and hardwood lumber industries report.  2008 RTA Symposium. Invited Presentation. Savannah, GA. October 2008.

Buehlmann, Urs, Matt Bumgardner, and Al Schuler.  2008.  Managing the downturn.  Annual Meeting of the Center for Forest Products Marketing and Management. Invited Presentation, Blacksburg, Virginia, September 17.

Alderman, Delton and Al Schuler.  2006.  Impact of Katrina on U.S. Housing Markets.  SWST annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, June 25.

Araman, Philip A. and Al Schuler.  2006.  Markets and Utilization - Markets Overview and Wood Utilization.  Presented at the PASS USDA Forest Service Mountain Advanced Training Program, Bent Creek Experimental Forest, Asheville, North Carolina, May 17.

Schuler, Al.  2006.  EWPs offer excellent market opportunities for hardwoods.  Hardwood Manufacturers Association meeting, Princeton, West Virginia, June 8.

Schuler, Al.  2006.  Surviving in a Sea of Change.  WCMA annual meeting, London, Kentucky, October 14–16.

Schuler, Al and Matthew Bumgardner.  2006.  Matt and I lead a roundtable discussion on the above topic (Surviving in a Sea of Change).  Following the presentation, there were three 30 minute, roundtable discussions with attendees of the WCMA meeting.

Schuler, Al.  2006.  Engineered Wood Products and Residential Construction Markets.  Virginia Tech Graduate Student Seminar, Blacksburg, Virginia, November 7.

Schuler, Al.  2006.  Engineered Wood Products and Residential Construction Markets – Will Wood Products Remain the Preferred Building Material?.  Virginia Tech Undergraduate Student Class, Blacksburg, Virginia, (Phil Araman), November 7.

Schuler, Al.  2006.  Economic Data and Decision Making in the Forest Products Industry – Perspective of an OSB manufacturer.  Virginia Tech undergraduate class in Business Management (Bob Smith), Blacksburg, Virginia, November 14.

Araman, Philip A. and Al Schuler.  2005.  An Overview of U.S. Wood Biomass Markets, Opportunities, and Issues.  Presented at the 2005 SAF National Convention, Ft. Worth, Texas, October 19-23.

Schuler, Al.  2005.  Changes in domestic supplies and market.  Appalachian SAF, Columbia, South Carolina, January 27.

Schuler, Al.  2005.  Trends Impacting Markets for Residential Building Materials – focus on Engineered Products and Systems.  Seminar presented to Huber Engineered Woods, LLC, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 27.

Schuler, Al.  2005.  Trends Impacting Solid Wood Product Markets.  Seminar presented at Virginia Tech, School of Forestry, Blacksburg, Virginia, April 15.

Schuler, Al and Peter Ince.  2005.  Global trade in forest products: Implications for the forest products industry and timber resources in New England.  New England SAF meeting, Portland, Maine, March 16-18.

Schuler, Al.  2005.  Markets for Structural Wood products in the U.S. are Changing – why is this Happening and what are the implications for the wood products industry?.  West Virginia Trade Mission, Logan, West Virginia, October 7.

Schuler, Al.  2004.  Demographics, the Housing Market, and Demand for Building Materials: Interesting times present Challenges and Opportunities for the Wood Products Industry.  Presented at the 2nd Annual OSB Symposium, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 18-19.

Schuler, Al.  2004.  Impact of Globalization on Softwood Markets – Implications for Timber Markets in the U.S. South.  Appalachian SAF meeting, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 28-30.

Schuler, Albert, and C. Adair.  2004.  Demographics, the Housing Market and demand for Building Materials: Interesting Times Present Challenges and opportunities fro the Wood Products Industry.  Keynote speaker – Factory Built housing Symposium, hosted by Forest Products Department; Mississippi State University, Mississippi, March 11.

Ince, P. A. Schuler, and H. Spelter.  2004.  Globalization, Consolidation, and Structural Change – An Evolving Context for Forest Management.  Presentation to the RPA Assessment Specialists meeting, Washington, DC, March 23-25.

Schuler, Al and Urs Buehlmann.  2004.  Reinventing the Furniture Industry – Facts and Ideas.  Keynote address: Industry Focus Day, FPS Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan June 27-30.

Schuler, Al.  2004.  Short Term Housing Outlook and Strategic Issues Facing the Lumber Industry.  SFPA (Southern Forest Products Assn.) annual meeting, Asheville, North Carolina, September 27.

Schuler, Al.  2004.  Market Outlook for Wood Building Materials – What’s in store for price volatility?.  NAHB semi annual Construction Forecast Conference, Washington, DC, October 27.

Schuler, Al and Urs Buehlmann.  2004.  “The Cheese has ved – What are we going to do about it?” Translation: global competition has changed the competitive landscape – How will the hardwood industry compete?.  NHLA, 2004 Hardwood Research Review, Toronto Canada, October 1-2.

Buehlmann, Urs, Matthew Bumgardner, Al Schuler, and R. Christianson.  2003.  Domestic Wood Product Manufacturing Trends and Factors to Enhance Competitiveness.  17th International Conference on Production Enterprise Integration, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, August 2003.

Buehlmann, Urs and Al Schuler.  2003.  Impact of Globalization on the Domestic Furniture Industry – Strategies for Survival.  NHLA Annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, September 18-19.

Schuler, Al.  2003.  Globalization and the North American Forest Products Industry: Survival Requires Different Strokes for Different Folks!.  Guest speaker, RISI (Resource information Systems, Inc.) 18th Annual North American Conference, San Diego, California, October 19-21.

Schuler, Al.  2003.  Opportunities for Engineered Wood Products to “Grow the Pie”.  Presentation at: SE section, Forest Products Society, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 11.

Buehlmann, Urs, Al Schuler, Matthew Bumgardner and Ucheom Nwagbara.  2003.  The State of the U.S. Wood Industry.  WoodLINKS USA In-service meeting, Anaheim, California, August.

Buehlmann, Urs, Al Schuler, Matthew Bumgardner and Ucheom Nwagbara.  2003.  Report from the Furniture Steering Committee.  Woodworking Industry Leadership Forum (WILF), formerly known as Chicago Peer Group. Anaheim, California, August.

Schuler, Al.  2003.  Declining Competitiveness of U.S. Furniture Industry – Implications for the Supply Chain.  Presentation at the CORE meeting, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, June 18.

Buehlmann, Urs and Al Schuler.  2003.  The furniture Industry in the USA.  Presented at: Conference on production of dimension parts from hardwood; sponsored by Forintek and QWEB, Quebec City, Canada, June 12-13.

Bumgardner, Matthew, Urs Buehlmann, Al Schuler and R. Christiansen.  2003.  Domestic Competitiveness in Secondary Wood Products.  Forest Products Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, June 20-23.

Buehlmann, Urs and Al Schuler.  2003.  U.S. Furniture Manufacturers Struggling with Imported Products.  17th International Conference on Production Enterprise Integration, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, August.

Buehlmann, Urs, Al Schuler, U. Nwagbara.  2003.  Globalization and the North Carolina Furniture Industry.  Forest Products Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, June 20-24.

Schuler, Al.  2003.  Grow the Pie – A Solution for Today’s Oversupplied Markets.  Wood Technology Show, Portland, Oregon, March 16-17.

Schuler, Al and David Giroux.  2003.  Engineered Wood Products – an Opportunity to Grow the Pie.  International Wood Composites Materials Symposium, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, April 2003.

Schuler, Al.  2002.  Presented “Industrialization in Housing – Implications for the Wood Products Industry ” .  Part of a national seminar/conference organized jointly by Forintek Canada Corporation, University of B.C., Laval University in Quebec, the University of New Brunswick, and the Quebec wood Export Bureau. Seminar topic is Factory Built Components and Housing Systems. I have been asked to speak on the topic of “market trends in the U.S. to provide an overview of key factors explaining the evolution of construction practices in the residential market. The seminar/conference will be hosted next March, 2002 in three Canadian cities – Montreal (March 20), Vancouver(March 18).

Buehlmann, Urs and Al Schuler.  2002.  The U.S. Secondary Wood Products Industry – current state and strategies for the future.  Presented at Kentucky Forest Industries Association Annual meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, March 6-7.

Schuler, Al and Urs Buehlmann.  2002.  Presented “Benchmarking the Wood Household Furniture Industry: A Basis for Identifying Competitive Business Strategies for Today’s Global Economy"".  To WCMA (Wood Component Manufacturers Association) Annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, April 6-9.

Schuler, Al.  2002.  Presented “Demographics and the housing market – Implications for the Structural Panels industry”.  Keynote speaker for the Structural Board Associations(Canada’s equivalent to APA/Tacoma, Washington) annual meeting in Tampa, Florida, April 26-27.

Schuler, Al and Urs Buehlmann.  2002.  Presented “Benchmarking the Wood Household Furniture Industry: A Basis for Identifying Competitive Business Strategies for Today’s Global Economy.  To the annual Hardwood Research Symposium at Falls Creek, Tennessee, May 29-31.

Schuler, A.  2002.  Presented “Industrialization and Componentization in Residential Markets – Technology, Demographics, and Economic Trends”. Maritime Lumber Bureau annual meeting.  Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada, June 5-7.

Buehlmann, Urs and Al Schuler.  2002.  Presented by Dr. Buehlmann.  “Benchmarking the Wood Household Furniture Industry: A Basis for Identifying Competitive Business Strategies for Today’s Global Economy” to the FPS annual meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, June 23-26. (Poster session also presented – same title).

Buehlmann, Urs and Al Schuler.  2002.  The U.S. Furniture and Wood Products Universe – Problems and Opportunities.  Presented to: WoodLinks USA Teacher’s meeting, IWF, Atlanta, Georgia, August 22-25. Dr. Buehlmann presented the paper.

Schuler, Al.  2002.  Innovative Uses for Wood Products. Promotes market development and supports forest sustainability: A win win situation for society, forest products industry, and forest owners.  Presentation by incumbent to symposium sponsored by the 60th annual session of the Timber Committee, UN/ECE Trade Division, Timber Section, and Forum Forestier Lemanique, September 26. Neuchatel, Switzerland. (this paper is listed on the UNECE/FAO website:(www.unece.org/trade/timber/docs).

Buehlmann, Urs and Al Schuler.  2002.  The U.S. Furniture and Wood Products Universe – Problems and Opportunities.  Presentation made to Schuler and Associates, Inc; End of Year Sales & Planning meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, December 14.

Bumgardner, Matthew and Al Schuler.  2002.  Structural Panels and Engineered Wood Products Overview.  Presented by Dr. Bumgardner, at CINTRAFOR’s 19th Annual International Forest Products Markets Conference, Seattle, Washington, September 25-26.

Schuler, Al.  2001.  Presented “Market Outlook for Engineered wood Products”.  Quebec Lumber Manufacture association (QLMA), annual meeting, Quebec City, Canada, May.

Buehlmann, Urs, and Al Schuler.  2001.  Developing a Competitive Business Model for the Furniture Industry.  Presented by incumbent and Dr. Buehlmann to: Furniture and Fabric Industry Advisory Board Meeting – special group of furniture executives that provide advice to Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing corporation re: research needed to enhance competitive position of the furniture industry, High Point, North Carolina, November 14.

Buehlmann, Urs and Al Schuler.  2001.  Recent Hardwood Furniture and Lumber Trends, and What You Can Do About It.  IHLA & WERC Teleconference, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 26.

Schuler, Al.  2001.  Presented “The Economy and Demand for Engineered Building Components – Some Thoughts and Concerns”.  Building Component Manufacturers Conference (BCMC), Keynote Speaker, Louisville, Kentucky, October 31-November 2.

Buehlmann, Urs, and Al Schuler.  2001.  U.S. Furniture and Wood Industries Project: Update. Presented by Urs Buehlmann, to NC State University “Deans Research Committee”, in support of funding proposal.  Coauthor – presented by Dr. Buehlmann, October.

Schuler, Al and Urs Buehlmann.  2001.  Presented “Benchmarking the Furniture Industry: Can the US be Competitive in Wood Furniture Manufacturing?”.  Forest Products Society, Annual meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, June.

Schuler, Al.  2001.  Presented “Demographics and the Housing Market – Implications for manufactured housing”.  American Log Home Association, Annual Meeting, Pipestem State Park, Pipestem, West Virginia, June.

Schuler, Al, Matthew Bumgardner, Bruce Hansen, and Bill Luppold.  2001.  Presented “Engineered Wood Products Demand: Implications for Hardwood Forest Sustainability”.  Invited by APA-The Engineered Wood Association to make presentation to Senior Management at APA, (Pub. # 45), Tacoma, Washington, March.

Schuler, Al.  2001.  Presented “Demographics and the Housing Market”.  WWPA (Western Wood Products Association) annual meeting, (Pub. # 30), Portland, Oregon, March.

Schuler, Al.  2001.  Engineered Wood products growth : Impact on the hardwood forest.  Paper presented to Senior Management team, APA – the Engineered Wood Association, (Pub. # 45), Tacoma, Washington.

Buehlmann, Urs and Al Schuler.  2001.  “Zukunftige Productions – und Verkaufsstrukturen an Beispiel des Nordamerikanischen Mobelmarkets” (The US Furniture Industry and Markets – Now and in the Future) .  Bayern Innovativ Symposium, (Pub. # 36,42) Coauthor – presented by Dr. Buehlmann, Rosenheim, Germany, March.

Schuler, Al, R. Taylor, and Philip Araman.  2000.  Presented “Market Outlook for US furniture industry – dealing with imports, expensive fiber, and unfavorable exchange rates”.  FPS Annual meeting, (Pub. # 43 - featured article in FPJ), Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June.

Schuler, Al.  2000.  Presented “Demographics and housing – implications for building materials”.  Paper presented to Senior Management team, APA – the Engineered Wood Association, Tacoma, Washington, March.

Schuler, Al.  2000.  Presented “Engineered Wood Products: a growing factor in hardwood fiber consumption”.  Annual Hardwood Symposium, NHLA, (Pub. # 33), Canaan Valley, West Virginia, May.

Schuler, A, C. Adair, and E. Elias.  2000.  Presented “World Trends in Engineered Wood Products”.  FAO/ECE, Timber Committee Annual meeting, Rome, Italy, (Pub. # 34,40), October 2000.

Schuler, Al.  2000.  Presented “Economic and lumber market outlook”.  MSR Lumber Producer’s Council Annual meeting, Quebec City, Canada, May.

Schuler, A. and C. Adair.  2000.  Presented “Market Outlook for OSB”.  FPS Annual meeting, (Pub. # 37), Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June.

Schuler, Al.  1999.  Presented “State of the National/International forest economy” .  Mississippi Forest Products Association, Annual meeting, (Pub. # 32), Tunica, Mississippi, October 1999.

Schuler, Al.  1999.  Presented “North American outlook for lumber and panels”.  Maritime Lumber Bureau, annual meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June.

Schuler, Al.  1999.  Presented “North American lumber market outlook”.  MSR Lumber Producer’s Council annual meeting, Pine Mountain, Georgia, April.

Hansen, Bruce, Cindi West, Philip Araman and Al Schuler.  1999.  “Hardwood Timber Product Markets with a focus on Small Diameter” .  SAF Annual meeting, (Pub.# 30,38), Presented by Dr. Bruce Hansen, USDA Forest Service, Denver, Colorado, October.

Schuler, Al.  1997.  Presented “Demand supply issues for North American lumber markets.  Osmose International Symposium, (Keynote speaker), Key Biscayne, Florida, February.

Schuler, Al.  1995.  Presented “Global outlook for lumber and panel products industry”.  Ontario Lumber Manufacturers Association, Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, December.

Schuler, Al.  1995.  Presented “Softwood lumber markets – current status and outlook”.  Canadian Window and Door Association, Annual meeting, New Brunswick, Canada.

Schuler, Al.  1993.  Presented “Some remarks on the outlook for Canadian forest products”.  WESTAC annual meeting, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, December.

Schuler, Al.  1993.  Presented “Some remarks on the correlation between public sector market research and industry needs”.  Forest Products Society, annual meeting, Clearwater, Florida.

Schuler, Al.  1993.  Presented “Global outlook for lumber and panel products industry”.  Ontario Lumber Manufacturers Association, Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, December.

Schuler, Al.  1993.  Presented “Softwood lumber markets current status and outlook”.  Canadian Window and Door Association, Annual Meeting, New Brunswick, Canada, 1993.

Schuler, Al.  1988.  Presented “Capital Investment analysis for new sawmilling technology”.  SAF Annual Meeting, Quebec City, June.

Schuler, Al.  1979.  Presented “An econometric model of the U.S. pallet market”.  ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, (Pub. # 16), New Orleans, Louisiana, May.

Schuler, Al.  1979.  Presented “Using econometric models to analyze wood product markets: some comments”.  Forest Products Society, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, July.

Schuler, Al.  1979.  Presented “An econometric model of the U.S. pallet market”.  FPS, National Meeting, (Pub.# 16), San Francisco, California, July.

Schuler, Al.  1978.  Presented “An econometric analysis of the U.S. hardboard industry”.  Forest Products Society (FPS), Annual Meeting, (Pub. # 9), Atlanta, Georgia, June.

Schuler, Al.  1978.  Presented “the insulation board industry – an econometric analysis”.  ORASA/TIMS, National meeting, (Pub # 12), New York, New York, May.

Steuer, R. and Al Schuler.  1976.  Presented “An interactive multiple objective linear programming approach to forest management”.  ORSA/TIMS, National meeting, (Pub # 7), Miami Beach, Florida, November.

Schuler, Al.  1976.  Presented “Nonlinear programming and the decreasing marginal utility problem”.  The Institute of Management Sciences, SE Chapter, Atlanta, Georgia, September.

Schuler, Al.  1976.  Presented “Goal programming algorithms useful in multi objective linear programming”.  The Institute of Management Science, SE Chapter, Miami Beach, Florida, October.

Schuler, Al.  1975.  Presented “Goal programming – a forest management tool” .  MW Forest Economists meeting, (Pub. # 5, 3), Mackinac Island, Michigan, September.

Schuler, Al.  1975.  Presented “Planning resource use on national forests to achieve multiple objectives”.  Operations Research Society of America/The Institute of Management Sciences (ORSA/TIMS) National meeting, (Pub # 3,5), Chicago, Illinois, May.

Schuler, A., and J. Meadows.  1975.  Planning resource use on National Forests to achieve multiple objectives.  Journal of Environmental Management 3(4): 351-366. (contribution: 80% - the incumbent designed the study, wrote the manuscript, and collected the data). Refereed.

Organized Marketing Session with Bob Youngs ( Virginia Tech Emeritus Professor).
FPS National meeting, Knoxville, TN. June 2007 .

Organizing committee.
FPS Globalization Conference, Vancouver, Canada January 2006.

Xi Sigma Pi .
(Forestry Honorary).

Trustee.
Southeastern section, FPS, 2001 – 2003.

Moderator.
Furniture and Hardwood Lumber committee technical session (annual meeting), FPS, 2000.

Chair.
Marketing technical group, Forest Products Society (FPS). 1988.

Co-Chair.
Production management committee, FPS, 1988.

Member.
Organizing committee, NA Wood /Fiber Supplies and Markets Conference, FPS, 1986.

Chair.
Production management technical group, FPS, 1982, 1988.

Member.
Forest Products Society since 1975.

Member.
Society of American Foresters since 1966.

International Marketing for Forest Products Industries. Attendance 16.
Instructor: Quesada-Pineda, H.J., Smith, B., Schuler, A., Stopha, J. and Fellhofer, J.
Location: Princenton, WV.
Dates: October 20.

Adjunct Professor, Dept. of wood Science and Forest products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
November 2006 – present

Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Forestry, WVU, Morgantown, WV.
July 2006 – Present

Presentation: Schuler, A. 2006.
Economic Data and Decision Making in the Forest Products Industry – Perspective of an OSB manufacturer. Virginia Tech undergraduate class in Business Management ( Bob Smith); November 14th, Blacksburg, VA

Presentation: Schuler, A. 2006.
Engineered Wood Products and Residential Construction Markets. Virginia Tech Graduate Student Seminar, November 7th. Blacksburg, VA.

Presentation: Schuler, A. 2006.
Engineered Wood Products and Residential Construction Markets – Will Wood Products Remain the Preferred Building Material?. Virginia Tech Undergraduate Student Class, November 7th. Blacksburg, VA

Presentation: Schuler, A. Schuler, A. 2005.
Trends Impacting Solid Wood Product Markets. Seminar presented at VPI, School of Forestry, April 15. Blacksburg, VA

Conducted workshop/lecture on “Engineered Wood Products – Issues and Outlook” to Senior class seminar.
University of West Virginia, 2000

Presented seminar on “Softwood Lumber Market Outlook” to Senior class.
Mississippi State University, 1998

Member, J. Meil’s MS committee, Forest Economics, University of Toronto, 1986-1988.
Thesis topic – Econometric study of Canadian softwood lumber industry

Member, Khaled Albosso’s Ph.D. committee, University of Missouri, 1978-1980.
Thesis topic – Goal programming in forestry

Member, Jim Hotvedt’s Ph. D. committee, Forest Economics, VPI & SU, 1978-1980.
Thesis topic – Goal programming in an industrial context

Taught Forest Economics course to Senior class.
Iowa State University, Ames, IA. 1975

Research Economist, USDA Forest Service, NE-4803, Princeton, WV.
Duties: responsible for studies on the impacts of the economy, globalization, technological change, and demographics on the markets for wood products (softwoods and hardwoods); the strengths and weaknesses of the hardwood industry; and the position of the U.S. furniture industry in an internationally competitive market

January, 1990 to September, 1999: Chief Economist, Norbord Industries, Toronto, Canada.
Duties: providing the company with economic forecasts and market analysis used in strategic planning, demand/supply and resource analyses, and price forecasting

September 1981 to January 1990.
Manager, Economics and Market Research Department, Forintek Canada Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario Duties: providing economic research and market analysis to support Forintek’s national research program and technology transfer to Canada’s forest products industry

June 1975 to July 1981.
Research Economist with USDA Forest Service – Burlington, Vermont and Princeton, West Virginia. Duties: developing operations research tools (e.g., linear and goal programming) to support research on land use planning under multiple use; and developing econometric models to analyze demand, supply, and price of wood products

September 1968 to Feb. 1971.
Inventory Forester, Washington Department of Natural Resources, Olympia, Washington

September 1966 to Sept. 1968.
Instructor, U.S. Army Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia