James A. Lutz is a Professor in the S. J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources and the Ecology Center at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, USA. He is an active collaborator in the Smithsonian Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) of large forest dynamics plots and is principal investigator for the plots at Yosemite National Park, California, Wind River, Washington, and Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah.
Research areas: forest ecology, fire ecology, spatial pattern analysis, remote sensing, tree mortality