Using FPS for Long-term Sustainable Harvest Planning

September 25-26, 2019 | DoubleTree Hotel – Lloyd Center | Portland, Oregon

Instructors: Jim Arney and Dan Opalach, Forest Biometrics Research Institute.

This workshop will emphasize harvest scheduling and long-term silvicultural planning. Each participant will come away with a state-of-the-art understanding for developing and implementing long-term forest management operational plans.

Do you know the sustainable capacity of your working forest? Have you provided your senior management with viable silvicultural options to meet your organizational goals? Can you explain these planning alternatives with confidence to your manager, owner, board or council?

Emphasis includes importance of harvest scheduling integration with inventory and silvicultural methods, alternative silvicultural regimes, site productivity, regeneration, operating costs, revenue and discounted cash flows. Detailed examples will identify impacts of stand versus forest-wide optimization strategies. If you own, manage or are concerned about inventory, GIS linkages, silviculture and harvest planning for a forested land base then this workshop is for you.

The objective of this workshop is to understand and apply a stand-based growth and silviculture modeling approach for all forest-wide silviculture and planning analyses. Each participant will be provided a computer, forest database, software and documentation with which we will develop each step and component over this two-day workshop. The combined workshop documentation and inventory database developed during this workshop will provide each participant with the tools and insight to carry out similar analyses upon returning to your own office. This workshop is updated based on current feedback from Technical Support questions.

Some planning models are based on Linear Programming solutions, such as Remsoft’s Woodstock. Some planning models are based on Binary Search algorithms, such as FBRI’s FPS. Do you understand the differences in results when applying these alternative models? Do you know what assumptions are behind the choice of a planning model? Then this workshop is essential for you.

Harvest Scheduling and Long-term Silvicultural Planning Workshop (Part 1)

September 25, 2019

8:30 am – 10:00 am   Definitions and Purpose

  • Basic concepts of Forest Planning – Stand versus Forest
  • Critical “Linkages & Integration” with Inventory Systems
  • Understanding and Quantifying Cash Flows

10:00 am – 12:00 pm   Basic Principles which determine Harvest Capacity

  • Defining Sustainability – Timeframe & Repeatability
  • Evaluating Growth Capacity under Alternative Silvicultural Regimes
  • Managing Spatial and Non-spatial Harvest Constraints

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm   Regulations, Restrictions and Alternative Goals

  • Dependence on a Quality Stand-based Forest Inventory
  • Methods of Invoking Riparian and Wildlife Habitat Zones
  • Managing Forest Health and Wildfire Risk

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm   Valuation and Cost Structures

  • Log Valuation – Species, Dimension, Position, Defect & Product
  • Operating Costs – Annual, Regeneration, Silviculture & Harvesting
  • Cash Flows – Net Operating Income, Discounted Net Revenue

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm   Critical Factors in Building a Harvest Plan

  • Tracking Dimensional Change instead of Age – Why?
  • Inventory Stand Resolution – Species and Distribution – Size & Spatial
  • Growth Model Resolution – Individual Tree or Stand Basis (outputs)
  • Early Stand Development – Regeneration & Non-tree Vegetation
  • Late Stand Development – Ingrowth, Growth & Mortality Dynamics
  • Understanding 2nd and 3rd Rotation Yield Impacts on Current Harvests
Harvest Scheduling and Long-term Silvicultural Planning Workshop (Part 2)

September 26, 2019

8:00 am – 10:00 am   Modeling Early Silvicultural Treatments

  • Small Tree Growth Dynamics and Classification (CASH Card)
  • Defining Regimes versus Individual Treatments
  • Quantifying Site Preparation, Brush Control & Pest Control
  • Timing, Intensity and Effects of Fertilizer Applications
  • Fill Planting and Inter-Planting Methods, Impacts and Costs

10:00 am – 12:00 pm   Modeling Mature Silvicultural Treatments

  • Importance and Methods of Timing Treatments
  • Thinning Alternatives – Type, Intensity, Residual Levels
  • Analyzing both Harvest Removals and Residual Standing Inventories
  • Managing Silviculture to meet Regulatory Constraints
  • Implications for Species Composition and Habitat Diversity

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm   Modeling and Utilizing Major Silvicultural Systems

  • Plantation Regimes for Single or Mixed Species
  • Seed-Tree Regimes with Natural or Planted Regeneration
  • Shelterwood Regimes and Regeneration Silviculture
  • Selection Regimes at alternative Frequency and Intensity of Entry

2:30 pm – 5:00 pm   Running harvest plan scenarios – What Works for You? Attendees will work alternative plans on classroom laptops

  • Develop Case Study Regimes to Optimize Volume, Value & Benefits
  • Rank Alternative Silvicultural Investment Levels – Natural & Planted
  • Evaluate Cash Flow and Residual Habitat by Silvicultural Strategy
  • Rank Alternative Silviculture for Wood, Value, Habitat and Carbon
  • Develop an Operational 5-year Rolling Harvest Plan

Lodging

No room block has been reserved this event. There are also numerous lodging facilities within close proximity. You are responsible for your own accommodations.

Cancellations

Workshops will be cancelled if fewer than 7 participants sign up. Refunds are non-refundable if cancellations are made less than 7 business days before the first day of the workshop.

Registration

Forest Biometrics Research Institute Members: The registration fee is U.S. $625.00.
All Others: The registration fee is U.S. $850.00.

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