Remotely over Zoom and in-person at the Cloquet Forestry Center
Stand inventories inform silviculture prescriptions as well as guide broader landscape management goals. However, while society's changing needs mean forests are managed for a greater variety of benefits, offices may not have enough forester capacity to keep up with increasingly complex stand inventories. This hybrid workshop will combine remote instruction on setting up cruises, optimizing inventory efforts, and inventory analysis with an in-person primer on data collection.
This workshop is primarily for early-career professionals, but open to all interested participants.
Cost: $75 for members, $140 for non-members. Registration includes both days of instruction.
Agenda:
November 3 from 1-3pm: Remote instruction going over sampling design and inventory implementation
November 5 from 9am-1pm: In-person field work at the Cloquet Forestry Center, plot measurements and conducting an inventory. Boxed lunches will be provided.
Accessibility: We will be in the field with limited access to restrooms for the duration of the field day on November 5. For questions related to accommodations reach out to Lane Moser at [email protected].
CEs: This event is rated for 5 MN FSP CEs. SAF CFEs available by request.
Other resources and links:
Georeferenced PDF of the stands used for instruction at the Cloquet Forestry Center: https://z.umn.edu/FFSMap
Example inventory data from the site, complete with metadata: https://z.umn.edu/FFSdataex
Asynchronous instruction on inventory data analysis will be provided; in addition, email and Zoom support and assistance will be provided for the analysis of data collected during this training. Reach out to both of the instructors - Lane Moser at [email protected] and Laura Reuling at [email protected] - with any questions.