NCASI Northeast Regional Meeting
This years meeting will be held in Boston, Massachusetts on
Wednesday and Thursday, October 16 and 17. The purpose of this
message is to announce the forestry session agenda. For those
who are participating in the SAF Certified Forester Program or
wish to meet state licensing requirements, the SAF will assign
5.5 CFE credit hours (category #1) for attendence. A number of
other sessions on mill related issues are planned as well.
Titles of these sessions (other than the General Session on
Wednesday morning) are: Residuals Management, Water Quality
Issues, Pollution Prevention, and Effluent Treatment. For more
information phone 617-627-3254.
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NCASI Forestry Session Agenda
Title: Forest Resource Assessment Issues
Time: Thursday, October 17, 1996 8AM - 3PM
Place: 57 Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA
SAF CFE Credit Hours: 5.5 (Category #1)
Moderator: Dr. Paul Van Deusen, NCASI
8:00 Lloyd Irland, The Irland Group,
"Forest and Fiber Supply Trends in the Frost Belt"
8:30 Dr. Court Washburn, Hancock Timber Resource Group,
"Timberland as a Standalone Investment: Institutional Ownership of
Timberland in the Northeast."
9:00 Dr. Paul Van Deusen, NCASI,
"FIA Pilot Studies of Annual Forest Inventory Systems"
9:30 Dr. Greg Reams, USDA Forest Service,
"Remote Sensing Applications to Annual Forest Inventory Systems".
10:00 Break
10:30 Dr. Zhiliang Zhu, EROS Data Center,
"EROS Data Center Satellite Data Sets for Forest
Mapping"
11:00 Dr. Ron Sundell, Argonne National Lab,
"A Dynamic Landscape Analysis and Model System Tool for Managing
Forest Ecosystems"
11:30: Will McWilliams, USDA Forest Service,
"Results From the Recent Maine Inventory"
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Dr. Steve Fairweather, Boise Cascade Corporation,
"Retrieval, Compilation, and Projection of Northeastern FIA Data; Looking
at the Future in Maine"
1:30 Dr. Steve Sader, University of Maine,
"Landscape Scale Effects of the Maine Forest Practices Act"
2:00 Kenneth Laustsen, Great Northern Paper, Inc.
The Maine Forestry Hotline ... 1-800-SFI-CARES
2:30 Dr. David Fields, University of Maine,
"Economic Impacts of the Green Referendum"
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