WASHINGTON, DC—Online training is now a screen tap away on your smartphone with the new Forest Vegetation Simulator training videos on the self-paced training page of the simulator website.

The simulator is the most widely used forest growth simulation model in the world, and now the program is even more accessible.

Forest Vegetation Simulator trainers designed the videos to help specialists work through the same exercises that are used in the live training sessions.

Eight modules cover the following topics:

• Thinning: Simulating management designed to create or enhance within stand structural diversity. Thinning throughout a diameter range, from below to a basal area residual with species preferences, and to a percent canopy cover. Thinning to a variable density
• Complex 2: Regenerating a stand via group selection and single tree selection.
• Fire and Fuels Management 
• Regeneration Modeling
• Growth and Mortality Modifications: How to add large-tree and small-tree growth modifiers
• Adjusting Default Relationships

The exercise manual and the associated data are installed to a PC as part of the FVS software complete package. Each exercise is accompanied by a training video of an instructor walking you through what’s needed to complete it.