6:00 PM	Arrival and registration
	Reception - Menominee Hotel. Hors d'oeuvres, cash bar.

Tuesday, September 9, 1997

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Welcome
	Dave Wilson, Inventory Forester, Menominee Tribal Enterprises Marshall Pecore, Forest Manager, Menominee Tribal Enterprises
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM	Green Sheet Gems - Cal Stott
	John Moser, Purdue Univ.
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Break
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	Historical Perspective of CFI
	Jim Meteer, Michigan Technological Univ. (Professor Emeritis) Joe Mawson, Univ. Massachusetts Jerry VandeHei, Wisconsin DNR (Retired Chief Forester)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Group Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Paper Session I Seven Steps to a Successful CFI - Don Vandendriesche Integrated Inventories on the Menominee Forest - Dave Wilson **80 Years of Permanent Sample Plots in the Petawawa Research Forest - Steve D'Eon
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Break
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Paper Session II Strategic and Operational Forest Inventory Planning in Finland - Alan Ek Inventory Design that Considers all the Sources of Error - John Rennie **A Comparison of Permanent Forest Inventory Designs - Chip Scott

Wednesday, September 10, 1997

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Paper Session III Internet/Intranet Delivery of GIS Data - Tom Burk Crown Closure Effects on Basal Area Growth - Phil Radtke
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Break
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Paper Session IV Analysis of AFIS projection models - Hector Franco-Lopez Validation of New Tree Growth Models for AFIS - Marge Holdaway **Modeling Forest Stand Structure using Landstat TM Imagery - Robin Reich
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Lunch
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Field Tour of Menominee Reservation Visit the northern hardwoods at a CFI plot. Discussion will focus on the sampling methods used, things we would like to try and add to the inventory. Visit the white pine shelterwood areas. Here we can discuss white pine management. I would like to bring up the subject of pine regeneration model problems we are facing. Pass the blowdown area and the mill. Have you ever seen 5+ million board feet at one time in a mill yard? Aspen area and talk about the restoration to sawlog species. This uses the "Featured Forest Cover Type" concept we developed using habitat type information developed by Kotar and CFI growth and yield data.
6:00 PM	Banquet

Thursday, September 11, 1997

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Paper Session V Process Modeling of Forest Regeneration - Andrew Robinson Comparison of Methods for Delineating Heartwood-Sapwood Boundaries - Matt Anderson Biodiversity and Productivity in Mixed Species Stands - Chris Edgar
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 noon	Paper Session VI It's Time to Learn Non-linear Mixed Effects Modeling - Ron McRoberts A New Addition to the Wisconsin Inventory: Habitat Type - Gary Brand and John Kotar **A 4-Step Process for Falsifying Stand Growth Equations - Rolfe Leary
12:00 noon	Wrap-up
	Business meeting

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