Third Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) Conference Presentations

The Third Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) Conference took place February 13-15, 2007, in Fort Collins Colorado.

The following is a list of the presentations of the conference. The presentation files are in Microsoft PowerPoint Show format (.pps). You will need to have Microsoft PowerPoint or the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer (a free download) installed on your computer to view these files.

The Third FVS Conference Proceedings will be available in the fall of 2007.

Tuesday, February 13

• Keynote Address – Vegetation Simulation and Our Changing World (5.2 MB). Corbin Newman, Director of Forest Management, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC

Session 1.  ISSUES IN FOREST MANAGEMENT

• Beyond the Conceptual Realm - Using FVS to Empirically Estimate Parameters and Outputs of State and Transition Models (33.8 MB). Melinda Moeur, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Portland, OR
• Effects of Using Visualization and Animation in Presentations to Communities about Forest Succession and Fire Behavior Potential (6.8 MB). Jane Kapler Smith - USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT
• FVS and Global Warming - A Prospectus for Future Development (29.8 MB). Nicholas L. Crookston, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID
• Kane Experimental Forest Carbon Inventory: A Case Study Introducing FVS Carbon (2.9 MB). Coeli M. Hoover, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Durham, NH
• Silvicultural Control for the Sustained Production of Big, Old Trees (8.7 MB). Albert R. Stage (retired), USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID

Session 2a.  FOREST DISTURBANCE – FIRE

• Integrating FVS and Wildfire Behavior Models in ArcMap (0.8 MB). Alan Ager, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Western Wildlands Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Prineville, OR
• Incorporating Landscape Fuel Treatment Modeling into the Forest Vegetation Simulator (0.9 MB). Robert C. Seli, USDA Forest Service, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT
• Incorporating Bark Beetle Effects into Fireshed Assessments: A Case Study Demonstrating New Model Interactions (1.2 MB). Andrew McMahan, ITX, Inc., Fort Collins, CO

Session 2b.  FOREST DISTURBANCE – INSECT & DISEASE

• Simulation and Plot Remeasurement Analysis Exploring Change in Stand Structure and Percent Canopy Cover Relationship Caused by Armillaria Root Disease (4.4 MB). Helen Maffei, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Region 6, Bend, OR
• Comparison of FVS Projection of Oak Decline on the Mark Twain National Forest to Actual Growth and Mortality as Measured Over Three FIA Inventory Cycles (1.4 MB). Linda Haugen, USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, St. Paul, MN
• Preliminary Results of the FVS Gypsy Moth Event Monitor Using Remeasurement Plot Data from Northern West Virginia (2.0 MB). Matthew Perkowski, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
• Poster Session Opening

Wednesday, February 14

Session 3.  FOREST PLANNING

• Development of a Vegetation Classification System for the Northern Region (4.1 MB). Doug Berglund, USDA Forest Service NFS Region 1, Missoula, MT
• FVS Out of the Box – Assembly Required (7.8 MB). Don Vandendriesche, USDA Forest Service, Forest Management Service Center, Fort Collins, CO
• Development of State and Transition Model Assumptions used in National Forest Plan Revision (0.9 MB). Eric Henderson, Hiawatha National Forest, Escanaba, MI
• Projecting Yields for ODF’s Structure-Based Management Planning Model (2.6 MB). Mark Rasmussen, Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc., Portland, OR
• Use of FVS in a Forest-Wide Inventory Analysis on the Spokane Reservation (2.7 MB). Ted Hensold, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Spokane Agency, Wellpinit, WA
• INFORMS Decision Support Using FVS with Most Similar Neighbor Analysis to Create Landscape Data for NEPA Analysis (1.3 MB). Eric Twombly, USFS, Pine RD, Wallowa-Whitman NF
• Using FFE-FVS to Estimate Potential Fire Behavior in Early Settlement Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Forests (1.3 MB). Mike Battaglia, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Session 4.  FVS DATA

• The Data Base Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (2.8 MB). Nicholas Crookston, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID
• NRIS FSVEG Data Translation (1.5 MB). Richard Teck, USDA Forest Service, Natural Resource Information System, Fort Collins, CO
• Forest Inventory and Analysis data availability (5.2 MB). Pat Miles, Northern Research Station, St. Paul, MN
• FVS Sate Translocation Techniques with the BLM FORVIS Database (4.8 MB). Tim Bottomley, USDI, Bureau of Land Management, National Science & Technology Center, Denver, CO
• Bureau of Indian Affairs, Data Availability and Translation (6.9 MB). Dave Wilson, USDOI, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Branch of Forest Resources Planning, Lakewood, CO
• Use of Imputed Tree Lists for FVS Landscape Projections: An Overview of Statistical and Biological Issues and Opportunities (1.0 MB). Eric L Smith, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, Fort Collins, CO
• Imputing Plot-Level Tree Attributes to Pixels and Aggregating to Stands in Forested Landscapes (2.1 MB). Andrew T. Hudak, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID

Thursday, February 15

Session 5a.  MODEL DEVELOPMENT I

• Inventory-Based Sensitivity Analysis Guides Calibration of Large Tree Diameter Increment Submodel of the Southern Variant of FVS (2.4 MB). Giorgio Vacchiano, Dipartimento Agroselviter, Università di Torino, Grugliasco, Italy
• Sensitivity Analysis of the Forest Vegetation Simulator Southern Variant (FVS-SN)(3.4 MB). Nathan D. Herring, Department of Forestry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• Improving Longleaf Pine Mortality Predictions in the Southern Variant of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (7.9 MB). Justin R. DeRose, Utah State University, Department of Wildland Resources, Logan, UT
• Errors-in-Variables for Individual Tree Mortality Models (3.1 MB). Clara Antón-Fernández, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
• Evaluating FVS-NI Basal Area Increment Model Revisions under Structural Based Prediction (0.8 MB). Robert E. Froese, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
• Evaluating Growth Models: A Case Study Using PrognosisBC (1.6 MB). Peter Marshall, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Modeling Sapling Recruitment Following Partial Cutting in the Acadian Forest Type: Using Long-Term Observations from the PEF to Assess the Performance of FVS-NE (0.9 MB). David Ray, School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME

Session 5b.  MODEL DEVELOPMENT II

• An Outsiders View of the Inside: Building the ECON Extension – Functionality and Lessons Learned (0.4 MB). Fred C. Martin, Washington Department of Natural Resources, Olympia, WA
• Development of a Forest Vegetation Simulator Variant and Application Software for Ontario (3.8 MB). Murray E. Woods, Forested Landscapes, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Bay, Ontario
• My Fuel Treatment Planner – A Tool for Calculating the Costs and Benefits of Fuel Treatments (2.3 MB). Stephanie Rebain, US Forest Service, Forest Management Service Center, Fort Collins, CO
• Development of External Regeneration Models for FVS: Another Wrench for the Toolkit (0.6 MB). Donald C.E. Robinson, ESSA Technologies Ltd., Vancouver, B.C.
• Estimating Natural Regeneration in Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) Affected Stands Using SORTIE/ND and PrognosisBC (0.5 MB). Derek Sattler, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• FVS Regeneration Imputation (3.9 MB). Don Vandendriesche, USDA Forest Service, Forest Management Service Center, Fort Collins, CO

For Further Information

For further information contact FVS Support at (970) 295-5770, sm.fs.fvs-support@usda.gov.