Third Forest Vegetation Simulator Conference; 2007 February 13-15; Fort Collins, CO

Abstract

The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a suite of computer modeling tools for predicting the long-term effects of alternative forest management actions. FVS was developed in the early 1980s and is used throughout the United Sates and British Columbia. The Third FVS conference, held February 13-15, 2007, in Fort Collins Colorado, contains 20 papers. They describe the use of FVS on the stand and landscape scale, and to analyze fuels management in the presence of insects and fire. Several papers compare FVS predictions of the effects of insects and disease to field measurements. FVS is continually evolving and improving in technology and capability to meet the needs of its ever increasing user community. Papers describe new methods for data acquisition and preparation for input to FVS, new economic analysis capabilities within FVS, new methods for simulating forest regeneration, new developments in calculating growth and mortality, and future plans for incorporating the effects of climate change in model simulations.

Titles contained within Third Forest Vegetation Simulator Conference; 2007 February 13-15; Fort Collins, CO

• Vegetation simulation and our changing world: Keynote address
• FVS and global Warming: A prospectus for future development
• Effects of using visualization and animation in presentations to communities about forest succession and fire behavior potential
• Incorporating landscape fuel treatment modeling into the Forest Vegetation Simulator
• Modeling bark beetles and fuels on landscapes: A demonstration of ArcFuels and a discussion of possible model enhancements
• Western root disease model simulation versus plot remeasurement: 11 years of change in stand structure and density induced by Armillaria root disease in Central Oregon
• 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
• Preliminary results of the FVS gypsy moth event monitor using remeasurement plot data from Northern West Virginia
• Development of state and transition model assumptions used in National Forest Plan revision
• Use of FVS for a forest-wide inventory on the Spokane Indian Reservation
• Landscape analysis software tools
• Forest inventory and analysis data for FVS modelers
• Forest Vegetation Simulator translocation techniques with the Bureau of Land Management's Forest Vegetation Information system database
• Aggregating pixel-level basal area predictions derived from LiDAR data to industrial forest stands in North-Central Idaho
• Inventory-based sensitivity analysis of the Large Tree Diameter Growth Submodel of the Southern Variant of the FVS
• Improving longleaf pine mortality predictions in the Southern Variant of the Forest Vegetation Simulator
• Evaluating growth models: A case study using Prognosis^BC
• Predicting the recruitment of established regeneration into the sapling size class following partial cutting in the Acadian Forest Region: Using long-term observations to assess the performance of FVS-NE
• Building the ECON extension: Functionality and lessons learned
• Development of FVS^Ontario: A Forest Vegetation Simulator Variant and application software for Ontario
• Development of external regeneration models for FVS: Another wrench in the toolkit

Citation

Havis, Robert N.; Crookston, Nicholas L., comps. 2008. Third Forest Vegetation Simulator Conference; 2007 February 13-15; Fort Collins, CO. Proceedings RMRS-P-54. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 234 p.