Communication from the National Forest Inventories Working Group of the 16th Caribbean Foresters Meeting: Proposal for a Regional Workshop

Humfredo Marcano-Vega; Carlton Roberts; Henri Vallès; Jacqueline Andre; Kevin Boswell; Dennis Lemen; Floyd Liburd; Christian López

Communication from the National Forest Inventories Working Group of the 16th Caribbean Foresters Meeting: Proposal for a Regional Workshop

Humfredo Marcano-Vega^1,*, Carlton Roberts², Henri Vallès³, Jacqueline Andre⁴, Kevin Boswell⁵, Dennis Lemen⁶, Floyd Liburd⁷, and Christian López⁸

¹USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA), International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Jardín Botánico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba, Río Pedras, PR 00926, USA.
²Forest Resource Inventory and Management, Forestry Division, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. ³Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences, The University of the West Indies at Cave Hills, Barbados. ⁴Forestry Wildlife, and Parks Division, Windsor Park Road, Roseau, Dominica.⁵Forestry Department, St. Thomas Parish, Jamaica. ⁶Stichting voor Bosbeheer en Bostoezicht (SBB), DS. Martin Luther Kingweg perc. no. 283, Paramaribo, Suriname. ⁷Nevis Island Administration, Agriculture Department, Prospect Estate St. John's, Nevis, Lesser Antilles. ⁸USAID/USDA Forest Service PASA, San Salvador, El Salvador. *Corresponding author.

Caribbean Naturalist, Special Issue No. 1 (2016)

Abstract
We addressed the National Forests Inventories Working Group of the 16th Caribbean Foresters Meeting to propose a series of training modules regarding how to conduct national forest inventories and analyze the data collected. Improving regional capacity is crucial to ensuring the sustainable management of Caribbean forest ecosystems. We focused on the statistical and computer skills that will facilitate appropriate forest inventory planning and design, data summation, data quality assurance and quality control, and information presentation congruent with internationally acceptable standards.

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