Chris J. Cieszewski and  Mike Strub

Forest Science Volume 52, Number 2, pp. 117-118 April 2006

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In 2004 we organized an international conference in conjunction with a regional annual meeting of the Southern Mensurationists. Forest biometricians, modelers, and statisticians attended the conference. This was the second International Conference on Forest Measurements and Quantitative Methods and Management, which took place on June 15-18 at Hot Springs, Arkansas. The previous conference in this series, which was the First International Conference on Measurements and Quantitative Methods and Management, took place five years earlier at Jekyll Island, Georgia. The target of this conference series is to conglomerate diverse aspects of quantitative methods used in forest inventory and management under a general umbrella of quantitative forestry. This conference series is sponsored once every five years by the open forum of the Southern Mensurationists, the University of Georgia, and Weyerhaeuser Company.

A few months before the conference Edwin Green, Editor of Forest Science, agreed to collaborate on a special issue of Forest Science comprising selected papers relating to the conference themes. This special issue of Forest Science, which includes articles written and revised following the usual peer-review process, was organized to reflect some of the highlights of the conference. This collection of nine articles came from the conference sessions on classification/mapping with satellite imagery (1 article), growth and yield modeling (2 articles), self-referencing functions (3 articles), special inventory topics (2 articles), and habitat modeling (1 article).

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Chris J. Cieszewski, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602

Mike Strub, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 and Weyerhaeuser Company Inc., PO Box 1060, Hot Springs, AR 71902

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