The Midwest Forest Mensurationist's 28th Annual Meeting is scheduled for September 12, 13 and 14, 1995, at the Grand Traverse Resort in Traverse City, Michigan. With the "winds of reinvention" blowing throughout the U. S. Forest Service, the meeting will provide discussion on the implications and potential changes that could occur with the USFS Forest Inventory Analysis Program. Additionally as with past meetings, participants augmented the program with contributed and poster presentations. Below is the finalize program: **************************************************************************** "A FOCUS ON FOREST INVENTORY ANALYSIS" 1995 MIDWEST FOREST MENSURATIONISTS' 28TH ANNUAL MEETING GRAND TRAVERSE RESORT TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN September 12, 13 & 14, 1995 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1995 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM: REGISTRATION 6:30 PM - 7: 30 PM: Michigan Wine and Cheese Tasting Reception WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1995 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM: Continental Breakfast 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM: REGISTRATION 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM: Welcome & Introductions: JOHN W. MOSER, JR., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN SESSION 1, MODERATOR: CARL RAMM, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 8:45 AM - 9:15 AM: Charting an Agency Course Toward Integrating Resource Information. FRED H. KAISER, JR., USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM: Priorities for FIA -- The Blue Ribbon Panel Perspective. WAYNE HAINES, International Paper, Bainbridge, GA 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM: Should FIA and NRI be Merged? (The Oregon Experiment). HANS SCHREUDER, Rocky Mountain Forest & Range Experiment Station, Ft. Collins, CO and JEFF GOEBEL, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Washington, DC 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM: Coffee Break 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Reinvention -- Impacts, Changes and Improvements in the FIA Regions -- A Panel Discussion: BRAD SMITH, MODERATOR, USDA Forest Service FIA Staff, Washington, DC KATHY GEYER, Pacific Northwest Forest & Range Experiment Station, Portland, OR ANDY GILLESPIE, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Radnor, PA JOHN KELLY, Southern Forest Experiment Station, Starkville, MS NEAL P. KINGSLEY, North Central Forest Experiment Station, St. Paul, MN DOUGLAS W. MacCLEERY, USDA Forest Service, Timber Management, Washington, DC DWANE D. VAN HOOSER, Intermountain Forest & Range Experiment Station, Ogden, UT 12:15 - 1:30 PM: Lunch SESSION 2, MODERATOR: JOHN F. BELL, John Bell & Associates, Corvallis, OR 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM: VEG ALL -- Forest Vegetation Data Storage. ROY MITA, Forest Management Service Center, Ft. Collins, CO 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM: What Databases are Available to Support the 1997 RPA?, BRAD SMITH, USDA Forest Service, FIA Staff, Washington, DC 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM: National Timber Projections: Do We Need A New ATLAS? JOHN MILLS, Pacific Northwest Forest & Range Experiment Station, Portland, OR 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM: Coffee Break 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM: An overview of the National Biological Service's inventory and monitoring activities. PAUL GEISSLER, National Biological Service, Laurel, MD 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM: SAFIS -- The Southern Annual Forest Inventory System, PAUL VAN DEUSEN, National Council of the Paper Industry for Air & Stream Improvement, Inc., Medford, MA 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM: Expanding Timber Inventories on Industrial Lands to Include Other Resources. JOHN RENNIE, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 4:45 PM - 5:30 PM: SOFTWARE/POSTER SESSION A generalized growth and yield software shell. RALPH L. AMATEIS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA HW-Buck: Optimization of Hardwood Bucking. WARREN E. FRAYER, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI Stand Structure Modelling. JOHN A. KERSHAW, JR., University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Reception & Beach Barbecue, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1995 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM: Continental Breakfast SESSION 3: MODERATOR: HARRY V. WIANT JR., West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Inventory Audit Sampling Design and the Missing Data Problem. SAM OTUKOL, British Columbia Ministry of Forestry, Victoria, BC 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Ontario Growth and Yield Training and Quality Assurance Program and Standards. ROJ MILLER, Ontario Ministry of Forestry, Sault Ste Marie, ONT 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Sampling in Old-growth Hardwoods. STEVE SHIFLEY, North Central Forest Experiment Station, Columbia, MO 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Coffee Break 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Synecological coordinates for upland forest plants of northwestern Wisconsin. GARY J. BRAND, North Central Forest Experiment, St. Paul, MN and Plant lists: a key component in mapping environmental factors. MARGARET R. HOLDAWAY, North Central Forest Experiment, St. Paul, MN 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Forest Ecological Modelling in New England. DALE SOLOMON, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Durham, NH 11:30 AM - 12 Noon: Inventory, Analysis and Modelling of Forest Regeneration. ALAN R. EK, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 12 Noon - 1:30 PM: French Country Buffet Luncheon SESSION 4: MODERATOR: JOHN C. MEADOWS, Cooperative States Research, Education & Extension Service, Washington, DC 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Generalized Least Squares for Compatible Estimation of Forest Growth Components From Remeasured Point Samples With Two Growth Periods. THOMAS B. LYNCH, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Stand Table Projections Derived From Per Acre Growth Models -- An Overview. JIM FLEWELLING, Consultant, Kent, WA 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Modelling forest growth for management level GIS systems. ANN WOLF, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Glasslog(TM) and Lumber Strength Modelling. DAVID M. HYINK, Weyerhaeuser Co., Tacoma, WA ADJOURN **************************************************************************** REGISTRATION AND INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS MAY BE OBTAINED FROM: JOHN W. MOSER, JR. 1159 FORESTRY BUILDING PURDUE UNIVERSITY WEST LAFAYETTE, IN 47906 PHONE: 317/494-3596 FAX: 317/496-2422 E-MAIL:JWM@FOREST1.FNR.PURDUE.EDU *****************************************************************************
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