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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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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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).