Workshop Topics

The Economics of Forest Restoration

• Making Forest Restoration Economical
• Contractor Logging Costs & Opportunities for Cost-savings
• Economics of Dry Forest Stewardship Projects
• Using the LanFin Tool

From Inception to Implementation:  Planning for Success

• Planning at the Landscape Scale
• Making Use of Good Neighbor Authority
• Authorities to Maximize Restoration
• Packaging Federal Resources for All-lands Restoration

New Opportunities for Conventional Harvesting Systems and Biomass Utilization

• Cut-to-Length vs Whole Tree Logging Systems
• Biomass Utilization, Harvesting and Markets
• Managing Slash: Needs, challenges, opportunities

Steep Terrain Harvesting Systems

• Skyline Logging: New Approaches to Traditional Systems
• Steep Slope Logging
• Tethered Assist

Forest Treatments for Riparian Health

• Hydrology Concerns for Treatments in Riparian Areas
• Riparian Thinning Using Cut-to-Length
• Riparian Thinning: An Example from the Deschutes National Forest

Cutting Edge Technologies for Sale Layout and Implementation

• Virtual and Discernable Boundaries
• Unmanned Aircraft
• Tablet applications for Implementing Silvicultural Prescriptions
• Using Avenza PDF Maps in Concert with CTL Harvesting Systems
• Forest Restoration in the Tablet & Smart Phone era: Marking and Realtime Monitoring using the ICO APP
• Non-contact tree measurement for forest harvesting machines

A Grounded Approach: Soil Considerations for Harvesting

• Soil Matters – Improving Forest Landscape Planning and Management for Diverse Objectives with Soils Information and Expertise
• Soil Resources Management for Logging in Steep Slopes
• Interaction of Steep Slope Equipment with Soil Resources

Roads, Water Crossings and Culverts: Challenges and Opportunities

• Roads, Crossings and Culverts
• Prioritizing Roads, Crossings & Culverts with NetMap

Designation Methods: Lessons Learned

• Alternative contracting methods and implementation strategies for commercial harvest
• DxP and DxD

Managing Fire at the Right Place and Right Time

• Prescribed Fire at Scale
• Contracting Prescribed Fire