Fifty-year Operations Schedule

After Pack Forest managers fine-tuned the chosen alternative and entered the changes into LMS, it was a relatively simple matter to create a 50-year operations schedule by extracting the treatment schedule from the alternative's LMS portfolio scenario file. The operations schedule describes stand treatments (what, when and where treatments happen) for the entire planning period in each of the five-year planning cycles. This is not a fine enough resolution to allow on-the-ground management, but it does provide a useful general outline of operations and expected outcomes.

In 2005, Pack Forest will evaluate and redevelop the operations schedule for the subsequent 50-years (2005-2055) as part of the landscape planning process. In order to accomplish this task, improvements to all plan components (objectives, measurable criteria, inventory, growth models, etc.) will need to be identified based on Monitoring and Adaptive Management strategies. Then, managers will redefine the management objectives, developed new alternatives , and implement the resulting chosen alternative. The specific operations presented (for management cycles after 2005) are based on the assumption that no changes will be made by future operations plan updates.

See Expected Outcomes for further discussion of the Operations Schedule.

View the Schedule

Two of the three formats for viewing the operations schedule are available to download or view on-line. Both are Excel worksheets and should only be viewed on-line if connection speeds are high. The first worksheet is a filterable treatment list sorted by year, stand and operation (140KB). Filters work by clicking the down arrows in the table headers and selecting the desired feature to view. The second worksheet is a schedule of treatments with expected outcomes (220KB). It lists all stands along the left column and treatment dates each get a column along the top. The outcomes include net revenue, cost, cut volume and standing volume.

The third format for viewing the operations schedule is viewable a as a series of Arcview maps that depict the scheduled treatments and stands for each of the five-year cycles. GIS shapefiles of these maps can be downloaded from a file transfer page for use with GIS software.

Mason McKinley, Pack Forest