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Biomass Information Needs

Biomass Information Needs. Reflections from Montana. Todd Morgan – University of Montana Renate Bush – Northern Region, National Forest Systems. Overview. Overview of recent biomass reports for Montana Similarities in information needs

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Biomass Information Needs

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  1. Biomass Information Needs Reflections from Montana Todd Morgan – University of Montana Renate Bush – Northern Region, National Forest Systems

  2. Overview Overview of recent biomass reports for Montana Similarities in information needs Current deficits and possible solutions to information needs

  3. Assessment of Biomass Supply and Use

  4. Biomass Supply Analysis

  5. Output reported

  6. Similarities in information needs • Outside of wilderness/roadless areas • Non-reserved timberland and distance to road • Intersection of plots with wilderness and inventoried roadless • Remove old growth from the estimates • Stand age as reported in EVALIDator • Determined by whether plot met old growth criteria used by Region 1 NFS and MT DNRC

  7. Similarities in information needs • Biomass on live trees: • “All live biomass on timberland” • Merchantable bole, non-merch bole, and crown • Standing dead tree biomass • From Larry Deblander (IW-FIA analyst) • Derived using methods consistent to live biomass estimates via the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS)

  8. Similarities in information needs • Analysis Area • All owners • R1 lands within 40 mile and 70 mile working circle

  9. Possible improvements • Ability to attribute FIA plots with (even a few) common spatial datasets used within a state • Example: wilderness and inventoried roadless • Ability to attribute FIA plots with common classifications used within a state • Example: Old growth

  10. Possible improvements • More biomass attributes available • Crown. Dead trees. (We have a beetle epidemic – just live tree info is of limited value.) • Ability to access, attribute, and easily analyze all the plots for a state to meet information needs

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