Environmental Professional, Forest Ecologist Los Alamos National Laboratory SAF Quiz Bowl Planning Team White Rock, New Mexico, United States
The development of a forest monitoring program at the 40 mi2 area of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has provided a route to proper treatment documentation, insight into the forest management history of the LANL campus and informs silvicultural prescriptions.
Learning Objectives:
To understand the intricacies of forest monitoring at a non-land management government facility.
To evaluate the effectiveness of various types of forest monitoring to meet differing objectives and stakeholder needs.
To demonstrate the monitoring techniques necessary to collect data for pre-/post-treatment monitoring, fire modeling, and treatment documentation.
