“On Thursday evening we had a little modelling panic attack due to how we had organized our model. In order to simulate different harvesting regimes across the AOI we had organized our data into separate “zones” and set these to the same priority in the model. However FPS does not behave as we initially expected and instead treats each zone as a separate forest estate and as such our model began to behave erratically – cue panic. Our entire approach to date has been premised on the use of zones and we were suddenly not sure how or if we could fix the problem.

Unsure of just how much trouble we might be in we appealed for help from Reg Davis and Cosmin Man who very kindly provided us with A LOT of feedback over the weekend as to our options. We’ve since been able to implement a treatment using the fixed harvest scheduler and we think we’re sorted out now. As such, we are happy to announce that we have some preliminary flows from our treatment buffer area (see below).”

– Cody Gold

Tentative numbers for timber flows from the treatment area within the W.U.I. have been produced. Following the conversion period (two iterations) public and private land would create 1.2 million cubic meters over ten years, at thirty year intervals, whereas public land only would create 1.06 million cubic meters.

Data visualizations are underway and tasks for this portion of the project have been assigned.

The SWOT analysis is being finalized over the next two days and timber flow numbers will be integrated into the analysis.

Report writing is progressing, the introduction has been written and context maps are being finalized over the week.

Thanks!

Leslie