September 10 – 12, 2013

Day/Time

Sustainable Forest Planning Workshop

Day 1
10:00am
12:00 pm

Definitions and Purpose

• Changes and Enhancements in FPS Version 7.0

  • Conversion to all “per acre” basis of tables (no totals)

  • Separation of Species and Sorts tables for valuation

  • Incorporation of biomass and carbon reporting

  • Separation of establishment and future silviculture

• Critical “Linkages & Integration” between FPS & GIS Systems

• Managing Spatial and Non-spatial Harvest Constraints

Day1
1:00pm
2:00pm

Basic Principles which determine Harvest Capacity

• Managing a “Working Forest”

• Definitions of Sustainability – Timeframe & Repeatability

• Sustainable Capacity and Growth Capacity (Species, Genetics, Silvics)

• Approximating Allowable Cut and Residual Standing Inventory

• Forest Health and Residual Inventory

Day1
2:15pm
3:15pm

Regulations, Restrictions and Alternative Goals

• Methods of Quantifying Riparian and Wildlife Habitat Zones

• Constraints and Alternative Silviculture for Regulatory Constraints

• Managing Forest Health and Fire Risk

Day1
3:30pm
4:30pm

Considerations for Building a Harvest Plan

• Initial Forest Inventory based on Vegetation Mapping

• Cycle or Frequency for Re-running and Updating Harvest Plans

• Understanding the Harvest Volume flow – Perturbations and Residuals

• Development of the Operational 5yr Rolling Harvest Plan

Day2
8:00am
9:00am

Harvest Scheduling Solutions – Methods and Techniques

• Linear Programming Models

• Simulations (Binary Search Models)

• Others (simple forest-wide equations, circles on a map, etc.)

Day2
9:15am
12:00 pm

Basic Mechanics of Forest Planning Analyses

• Build the Planning Database

• Defining Values, Costs, Merchandizing and Constraints

• Development of 2^nd Rotation Silviculture and Yield Capacities

• Case-study Development of Alternative Silvicultural Regimes

• Comparison of Yields from Alternative Goals (Volume, Value, NPV)

• Comparison of Yields from Alternatives to Clearcut Regimes

Day2
1:00am
4:30 pm

Advanced Forest Planning Analyses

• Additive Impact of Constraints – Opening Size, Wildlife, Green-up

• Alternative Silvicultural Regimes under varying Constraints

• Wildlife Considerations – Basin, Point-centered, Riparian ribbons

• Modeling Spatial Constraints – Green-up, Wildlife, Riparian

• Linkages to GIS polygons and Visualizations

• Generating Final Harvest Reports and Operational Plans

• Conversion from Stand Polygons to Harvest Block Polygons

Day3
8:00am
12:00 pm

Hands-on Methods – Building the “Working Forest” Plan

• Develop Harvest Plans to Optimize Volume, Value & Benefits

• Evaluate Alternative Harvest Plans for Habitat Management

• Evaluate Cash Flow and Management Costs for Carbon Sequestration

• Rank Alternative Silviculture for Wood, Value, Habitat and Carbon

• Workshop adjourns