As you may know, an important milestone in the Hawaii Assessment of Forest Conditions is the presentation of the draft Assessment at the 2009 Hawaii Conservation Conference (July 28, 29 and 30). Just got off the phone with the LANDFIRE people, and it looks like they will be able to present their results (or nearly completed results) at the Conference! That brings us to a total of four, counting me. So just one more speaker to round out the needed five speakers.
I am particularly excited about this presentation, because it will showcase an entirely new dataset for Hawaii; one that will show the modeled state of the environment at the time of European arrival (that is the LANDFIRE baseline, applied for all States’ LANDFIRE products), and the present condition of the vegetation, with a set of descriptive models on how we got from the starting point to where we are today.
