Volunteer Training
Session 2

This month's meeting focus was Volunteer Forest Monitoring Program. Deputy District Ranger Adam Bianchi was our featured presenter. Cary Green and Shelby Limberis participated. We discussed specific program changes that will make our work more relevant to U.S. Forest Service needs. Adam explained what data the Forest Service hopes will be collected, where and why. He suggested revisions to our data collection and recording protocols that will make our job easier and our data more valuable.

We organized into monitoring teams and assiged plots. Forest Service staff provided training on topics such as how to measure slope and ground cover.