2023 Intermountain Forestry Cooperative (IFC) Annual Meeting

43rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Intermountain Forestry Cooperative

7:30   Registration – Check-in

8:00   Welcome and Housekeeping Items

8:05   PPDM Update: Site and stand effects on conifer species growth and mortality following stand density manipulation – Mark Kimsey, IFC

8:45   PPDM Update: FVS thinning projections vs observed growth trajectories following stand density manipulation – Ann Abbott, IFC

9:45   Coffee Break + Discussion

10:00  RGT Update:1^st yr woods run vs improved seed project status report – Mark Kimsey and Taylor Lantz, IFC

10:30   NMS Update: Whole tree vs bole only effects on nutrition and growth – 10 yr Report – Terry Shaw, IFC

11:00   Member Project Discussion Period

11:30   Lunch (on your own)

1:00   James Moore Keynote Address: Precision forestry initiative at the University of Idaho – Bruce Ripley, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho

1:30   Democratizing precision forestry – a collaboration between Oregon State University, University of Idaho and USFS-RMRS – Wade Tinkham, USFS-RMRS

2:00   Research Spotlight: Automating the fusion of multiple sparse lidar point clouds – Onni Pohjavirta, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute and Xinlian Liang, Wuhan University

2:30   Discussion + Refreshment Break

3:00   Defining and identifying site trees from varying pulse density lidar – Noel Daugherty, IFC CAFS Scholar

3:30  Site-stand dynamics and pine beetle mortality in ponderosa pine ecosystems – implications for density management – Haley Anderson, IFC

4:00   IFC Online Research Tools for Members – Mark Kimsey, IFC

4:20   Meeting wrap-up