
Workshops
Forest Inventory, GIS, Growth & Planning
Workshop
We usually conduct
one or two Forest Inventory and Planning Workshops each year. Participants
use desktop computers to work up all inventory, GIS, growth, silviculture
and planning examples from basic principals. Instructors are Dr. James
D. Arney, Forest Biometrics and Dr. Kelsey S. Milner, Retired Champion
Professor of Forestry, University of Montana. There have been over twenty
Forest Biometrics workshops conducted in the Pacific Northwest since
1996.
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Place Reservation
Workshop are located in Corvallis, Oregon. Other locations may occur
from time to time. The Workshop participants receive the latest textbook
and may receive workshop databases and FPS on CD-ROM as part of the short
course. Each workshop is limited to 24 participants, so make reservations
early.
The Workshop includes inventory design (stand, plot, tree), database
structure, gis basics, photo classification, habitat classification,
cruise expansion, acreage reduction for roads (gis), stream buffer computations,
polygon management (lump/split/harvest depletion) and year-end reporting.
It also includes growth projection methods, visualizations, natural regeneration,
silvicultural regimes (clearcut, seed tree, shelterwood, selection),
economic analyses (costs, values, discounting) and harvest planning under
constraints (silviculture, wildlife, watershed, green-up).
The current version of FPS may be purchased new as part of a workshop
fee for $250 (regular price $750).
Calibration Workshop
This is a unique opportunity to learn about the internal structure of the Forest
Projection System (FPS) growth model, site curves and taper profiles. This model
uses a distance-dependent tree list approach to project the future of mixed-species,
mixed-age stands. All site, taper and growth parameters reside in external Libraries
localized to geographic regions of the West based on over 20,000 permanent research
plots and over thirty years of continuous analysis and review. Approximately
two-thirds of the forest land owners in the West use the Forest Projection and
Planning System software tools to manage their lands. Many of these forest managers
have begun to localize the Species Libraries based on direct observations from
their own surveys and permanent plot trials. This workshop provides methods and
software tools to facilitate the localization of the Species Libraries to each
ownership. This Workshop is sponsored by the Forest Biometrics Research Institute.
We encourage professional forestry consultants knowledgeable in biometric methods
to participate in these Workshops as background to assisting forest managers
in localizing FPS Regional Species Libraries. We encourage forest land managers
to participate in these Workshops to learn about the FBRI Permanent Plot System
designed to validate and calibrate the FPS model to you own lands.
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Place
Reservation
There has never been a workshop of this technical depth and integration offered
in the Northwest prior to this. Participants should be well versed in biometric
principals and silvicultural dynamics of coniferous forests. You will not be
disappointed in the depth of material presented. Bring your own portable computer
with CD-ROM drive to fully benefit from the software tools and databases provided
as a part of this workshop.
Sustainable Forest Planning Workshop:
Developing a reasonable, defendable and repeatable long term harvest plan has become one of the most difficult and confusing tasks in forest management. Maximizing forest potential is no longer simply optimizing stocking levels. We must now overlay may constraints and goals that may include wildlife management, selection harvest systems, regulatory constraints and various management goals (no longer limited to producing boards). These constraints and goals are often spatially specific and overlap each other. The ability for an organization prove legislative compliance, gain forest certifications and achieve public acceptance of operations often hinges on a precise and defendable long range plan.
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This will be an in-depth workshop demonstrating step by step techniques to build multiple yield streams, implement environmental constraints and create sustainable harvest schedules for various forest management goals. Participants will leave with a clear picture of how to develop and optimize a long range plan.The "Inventory and Planning Workshop" or instructor consent is prerequisite for this workshop. Bring your own portable computer
with CD-ROM drive to fully benefit from the software tools and databases provided
as a part of this workshop.
The current version of FPS may be purchased new as part of a workshop
fee for $250 (regular price $750).