State Agencies approaches and ROI implementing advanced technologies to support inventory data collection and management.

Thursday, September 19, 2024

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM MST

Location: Embassy Suites, Canyon Maple B

Moderator(s)

BC

Brandon K. Craft, CF (he/him/his)

Product Manager
Orbis
LaGrange, Georgia, United States
Kerry Halligan, Ph.D. (he/him/his)

General Manager of Technology
Woodland Solutions Group
Portland, Oregon, United States

Speaker(s)

Zach Wehr, MF (he/him/his)

Supervisory Forester
CSFS
Granby, Colorado, United States
Casey Phillips
PL

Paul Lupo

Forest Program Specialist
Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pennsylvania, United States
Matthew Mrizek, RF

Staff Forester
Georgia Forestry Commission
Waycross, Georgia, United States

Submitter(s)

JS

James Schriever, n/a

President/CEO
Member
Woodland Park, Colorado, United States

Organizational challenges, benefits, best practices, and lessons learned when implementing modernized forest inventory management systems at a state level. Focus will be on how these systems are improving the tools available to foresters to support management of their forest resources.

Learning Objectives:

Lessons learned from statewide technology implementations.
Benefits and ROI resulting from statewide technology implementations.
Understand the steps, best practices, and support needed to be in place before embarking on large forest technology implementations.