Lead Instructor: Brian Stearns, Huron-Manistee National Forests Huron Shores Ranger Station

This three-day, field- and classroom-based workshop is open to all participants of any affiliation, and will introduce participants to: tools for selecting metrics that match management/restoration objectives; developing site-specific protocols for sampling; developing a monitoring handbook and monitoring protocols/program for your local ecosystems; and how to establish long-term monitoring and quantitative/qualitative data for wildfire risk assessment and evaluating the need for prescribed burns and other fuels treatments.