PM	Arrival and registration
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM	Reception

Tuesday, September 10, 1996

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM	Welcome, T. Burk, Univ. Minnesota
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM	Paper Session I - Moderator: M. Hansen, USDA Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station The Bakuzis matrix for testing models of stand dynamics - R.A. Leary, USDA Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station Intensive forest management in the Southeast: Methods and modeling efforts - B. Borders, Univ. Georgia Modeling red pine tree growth using the Weibull function with climatic adjustment: Preliminary results - M.R. Holdaway, USDA Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Break
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM	Paper Session II - Moderator: A. Ek, Great Lakes Forest Growth and Yield Cooperative and Univ. Minnesota Uses of the forest vegetation simulator in forest plan revisions - R. Teck, USDA Forest Service, Timber Management Staff An inspection of USDA Bulletin 1104 - T. Burk, Univ. Minnesota Using a Criterion 400 and Impulse 200 laser instrument to accurately measure trees - B. Carr, Carr Consultants, Inc.
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	"Regression Graphics" mini-course, Part I, Dr. Sanford Weisberg, Univ. Minnesota
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Break
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Paper Session III - Moderator: J. Rennie, Univ. Tennessee An introduction to AEM: A simulation model for evaluation of agroforestry ventures - V.C. Baldwin, USDA Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station Modeling a shelterbelt agroforestry system - C. Mize, Iowa State University Aspen stand volume yield model by Richard function based on FIA - C.M. Chen, Minnesota DNR-Division of Forestry
6:00 PM	Banquet After Dinner Presentation "Shipwrecks of Lake Superior" - Dr. Julius Wolff, Univ. Minnesota, Duluth, retired

Wednesday, September 11, 1996

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Paper Session IV - Moderator: J.F. Bell, John Bell & Associates Distance sampling for forest inventory in Indonesian teak plantations - T.B. Lynch, Oklahoma State Univ. Biomass sampling in a Midwestern old growth forest under different disturbance regimes - M.A. Spetich, Purdue Univ. Mini-FrontWin/PAM System for Ontario: Software applications of new models and methods supporting timber inventory - W.T. Zakrzewski, Univ. Toronto and J.S. Mackenzie, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 noon	"Regression Graphics" mini-course, Part II, Dr. Sanford Weisberg, Univ. Minnesota
12:00 noon - 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Discussion Session The future of large regional, state and other strategic surveys - A.R. Ek, Univ. Minnesota Discussant - G.M. Furnival, Yale Univ., retired. Comments from the floor
2:30 PM -	Field trip (returning approx. 7:30 PM) OR Open time
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Great Lakes Forest Growth and Yield Cooperative Business Meeting

Thursday, September 12, 1996

8:30 AM - 10:30 AM	Paper Session V - Moderator: J. Moser, Purdue Univ. The variagraph concept in diagnostics for models - A. Robinson, Univ. Minnesota Synecological coordinates: A tool for anticipating succession? - G.J. Brand, USDA Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station Heartwood taper equations for black walnut - D. Larsen, Univ. Missouri Evaluation of several volume estimation equations for aspen in Minnesota - B. Berguson, Univ. Minnesota, Natural Resources Research Institute
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Business meeting
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