TUESDAY, September 24, 2002

 

8:15 AM

WELCOME

Moderator: Samuel J. Radcliffe

8:30 AM

Data and Information Needs for Forestry in A Regulated Environment

Alan Ek and Mike Kilgore

 

9:15 AM

Creating Metadata for the Great Lakes Ecological Assessment

Larry Leefers, Steve Friedman, and Dave Cleland

 

10:00 AM

BREAK

 

10:30 AM

Concept development: A forest resources information cooperative.

Alan Ek, Andrew Finley and Michael Prouty

 

11:15 AM

An effort to revive a sense of forest resources as part of the real economy

Henry H. Webster

 

12:00 PM

LUNCH

 

1:30 PM

Analysis of Annual Forest Inventory Results, Minnesota's timberland resources, 1990 to 2000

Mark H. Hansen

 

2:15 PM

Relationships between forest fragmentation and forest attributes obtained from FIA plot data

Ronald E. McRoberts and Greg A. Liknes

 

3:00 PM

BREAK

 

3:30 PM

Market Impacts and Policy Implications of U.S. Trade Dispute with Canada: The Softwood Lumber Case

Runsheng Yin and Jungho Baek

 

4:15 PM

The Impacts of Decentralization on Forests and Forest Management in Berau, East Kalimantan – Indonesia

Rony Bishry

 

5:00 PM

ADJOURN

 

WEDNESDAY, September 25, 2002

 

8:15 AM

WELCOME

Moderator:

 

8:30 AM

Encouraging the use of timber harvesting guidelines: An assessment of policy tool use and effectiveness in the United States and Canada

Michael A. Kilgore and Charles R. Blinn

 

9:15 AM

Defining yield classes for uneven-aged stands based on size and spatial distributions of individual trees

Chris W. Woodall

 

10:00 AM

BREAK

 

10:30 AM

The Global Forest Products Model (GFPM): Structure, Estimation, and Applications

Joseph Buongiorno

 

11:15 AM

Progress in developing the Forest 5 model for ecosystems analysis

Christopher Schwalm and Alan Ek

 

12:00 PM

LUNCH

 

1:30 PM

Long-term Timber Price Trends in Michigan

Larry Leefers and Karen Potter-Witter

 

2:15 PM

Assessing Embedded Options in Great Lakes Timberland

F. Christian Zinkhan, Samuel J. Radcliffe, Hunter Jenkins, and Blake Stansell

 

3:00 PM

BREAK

 

3:30 PM

Analyzing total uncertainty for a diameter growth model

Ronald E. McRoberts

 

4:15 PM

An update on kNN method findings in forest resources inventory.

Alan Ek, Marv Bauer, Ron McRoberts and others....

 

5:00 PM

ADJOURN