44th Annual Technical Meeting of the Intermountain Forestry Cooperative
7:30 – 8:00 Registration – Check-in
8:00 – 8:05 Welcome and Housekeeping Items
8:05 – 8:45 James Moore Keynote Address: Forest Research: The future of CAFS and national collaboration of forestry cooperatives – Aaron Weiskittel, Center for Research on Sustainable Forests, University of Maine and Robert Wagner, Professor of Silviculture & Forest Ecology, Purdue University
8:45 – 9:15 PPDM Update: Site type and stand effects on growth and mortality following stand density manipulation – Mark Kimsey, IFC
9:15 – 9:45 PPDM Update: Outcomes from mobile lidar scanning of select PPDM installations – Mark Kimsey, IFC
9:45 – 10:00 Coffee Break + Discussion
10:00 – 10:30 RGT Update: Early findings and status report – Taylor Lantz, IFC
10:30 – 11:00 NMS Update: Slash loading effect on soil water, competition, survival and growth – TBD, IFC
11:00 – 11:30 Member Project Discussion Period
11:30 – 1:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:00 – 1:30 Regional Research Spotlight: Advances in Armillaria research including species distribution modeling using bioclimatic variables – John Hanna, USFS-RMRS – Moscow, ID
1:30 – 2:00 SDImax Update: IFC regional and national SDImax modeling status report – Jaslam Poolakkal, IFC
2:00 – 2:30 SDImax Update: Ponderosa pine SDImax & pine beetle outbreaks: modeling density thresholds for western pine beetle mortality resilience – Haley Anderson, IFC
2:30 – 3:00 Discussion + Refreshment Break
3:00 – 3:30 NIFA-AFRI Project Update: Low-cost integration of ground and drone-based remote sensing for forest inventory – Wade Tinkham, USFS-RMRS – Fort Collins, CO
3:30 – 4:00 IFC Add-on Research Topic: Evaluation of 2nd generation Geiger lidar canopy penetration for individual tree stem location and measurement – Ed Flathers, IFC
4:00 – 4:20 IFC Online Research Tool Update – Mark Kimsey, IFC
4:20 – 4:30 Meeting wrap-up