Forest Sampling Methods & The Forest Inventory Practicum College of Natural Resources University of Idaho UI CNR
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Forest Sampling Methods:

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Lectures and Lab Topics Assignments
Week 2
(Sep. 2-6)
 No Class due to Labor Day Holiday
Week 3
(Sep. 9-13)
 Welcome to the Class: Goals and Expectations
Monitoring and Statistics Made Sensible? (PDF)
 Introduction to Using Excel Exercise (PDF)
Presenting Data in Excel (DOC)
Instructions
 Introduction to Forest Vegetation Simulator
Simulation Data
Week 4
(Sep. 16-20)
 Fundamentals of Forest Sampling (PDF)

 FVS Data Manipulation and Output
FVS_Lab_Data
Week 5
(Sep. 23-27)
 Simple Random Sampling, Correlation, and Auto-Correlation (PDF) 
          
Excel Class Sheet - Sample Size (xlsx)
 Assignment 1 Due (PDF)
Week 6
(Sep. 30-Oct. 4)		 Stratified Random Sampling (PDF)

 Excel Class Sheet - Stratification and Combining Stand Data (xlsx)		 Assignment 2 Due (PDF)
Week 7
(Oct. 7-11)		 Summary and catch-up of the first 5 weeks  
Week 8
(Oct. 14-18)		 Systematic and Rare Population Sampling (PDF)
        
 Plot Spacing and Sampling Intensity (xlsx)
 Assignment 3 Due (PDF)
Week 9
(Oct. 21-25)
 Regression, Regression Estimation, and 3P (PDF)
Excel Class Sheet - Regression Estimation (xlsx)
 Excel Class Sheet - 3P (xlsx)
 Assignment 4 Due (PDF)
Week 10
(Oct. 28-Nov. 1)
 Midterm Exam

 Assignment 5 Due (PDF)
Assignment 5 Dataset (xlsx)
Week 11
(Nov. 4-8)		 Double and Cluster Sampling (PDF)   

 Excel Class Sheet - Double Sampling (xlsx)  
 Excel Class Sheet - Cluster Sampling (xlsx)
Extra Credit Assignment Due (PDF)
 Extra Credit Dataset (xlsx)
Week 12
(Nov. 11-15)		 ...
 Assignment 6 Due (PDF)
 Assignment 6 Dataset (xlsx)
Week 13
(Nov. 18-22)		 Project Part 1

Assessing Spatial Data Variability in ArcMap

FOR_373_Project_Files		 Assignment 7 Due (PDF)
 Assignment 7 Dataset (xlsx)
(Nov. 25-29)
 Project Part 2

Project Data		 Assignment 8 Due (DOCX)
Week 14
(Dec. 2-6)		 Thanksgiving
Week 15
(Dec. 9-13)
 Project Part 2
  

Week 15: No Lecture

Take home Exam Due Dec. 9th (Will be emailed to class Dec. 2nd)
Finals Week In class Final Exam Thursday December 19th CNR 25 3:00 - 5:00 pm