Workshop Agenda: Monitoring for Performance-Based Timber Managemnet

Workshop Agenda

February 20-21, 2002
Richmond Inn Convention Centre
Richmond, British Columbia, CANADA

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Workshop Co-sponsors:
BC Ministry of Forests, Forest Practices Branch
Southern Interior Forest Extension and Research Partnership (now FORREX)
Southern Interior Growth and Yield (SIGY) Co-operative
Forestry Continuing Studies Network

Monitoring Primer
(workshop handout)

Introduction

John Henigman (MoF)

What is Monitoring?

Eleanor McWilliams (JS Thrower & Assoc)

Why do We Monitor?

lan Moss (ForesTree Dynamics / Harmeny Systems Ltd.)

How to Monitor: 'A Step by Step Approach'

Andrea Eastham (Industrial Forestry Service Ltd)

Monitoring: Baselines and Statistics

Val LeMay (UBC)

Treatment Response Panel

Eleanor McWilliams (JS Thrower & Assoc),

Suzanne Simard (MoF),

Andrea Eastman (Industrial Forestry Service Ltd),

Mishtu Banerjee (consultant)

The National Forest Inventory - An International Perspective

Mark Gillis (CFS)

Provincial Change Monitoring inventory Program

Laurence Bowdige (MSRM)

An Integrated Environmental Monitoring System (IEMS) for British Columbia

Jeff Monty (MSRM)

Growth and Yield Monitoring in the Weyerhaeuser Grande Prairie/Grand Cache FMA

Greg Behuniak (Weyerhaeuser) and Gyula Gulyas (JS Thrower & Assoc)

Plum Creek, The Pacific Northwest

Don Reimer (DR Systems)

The History of Timber Management Monitoring in BC

Alan Vyse (MoF)

Lignum IFPA

Tracy Earle (Lignum)

Weyerhaeuser TFL 35

Don Brimacombe (Weyerhaeuser)

Checking the Yield Predictions Integral to Performance Based Timber Management:
Preliminary Results for the Stand Growth Model TIPSY

Pat Martin (MoF)

An Experiment in Performance-Based Forest Management: Fort St. John Forest

Jeff Beale (Slocan-LP)

Administrative Monitoring - The Tembec Experience

Grant Neville (Tembec)

Vegetation Management Treatment Responses: Results and Application of PROBE in the BC Southern Interior

Suzanne Simard (UBC) and Lana Kendall (Interfor)

NIVMA

Steve Thorpe (Canfor)

QCI 2nd Growth Study -Husby Forest Products

David Carson (Consultant)

Workshop Summary

Steve Stearns-Smith (SIGY)