For five days in July nearly 40 participants from eight countries convened in Montana's Lubrecht Experimental Forest to learn about Montana's approach to forest regulations via the legal and administrative structure of the of the Lubrecht forest" in-depth reviews of Montana's Best Management Practice (BMP) system and several field trips to area harvesting operations. Designed to promote international learning and exchange of forest government strategies" participants left the conference having first-hand experience on how area logging operations are audited" BMP monitoring and the interactions between tribal communities and their corresponding federal" state and tribal jurisdictions.

Presentations

Blackfoot Challenge: Part 1

Gary Burnett" Blackfoot Challenge

• Blackfoot Challenge: Part 2

• Blackfoot Challenge: Part 3
  

Clearwater Stewardship Project

Tim Love" USFS

Montana's Accredited Logging Professional Program

Jason Todhunter" Tricon Timber

Northern Rockies Forests: Natural History" Ecology and Management Implications

Peter Kolb" Montana State University

• Natural History" Ecology and Management Implications (Part 2)

• Natural History" Ecology and Management Implications (Part 3)

• Natural History" Ecology and Management Implications (part 4)
  

Rethinking Forest Practice Regulations: Overview and Introduction

Andy White & Sally Collins" RRI

US Forest Service National Forest System

Leslie Weldon" USFS