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The Montana Association of Geographic Information Professionals (MAGIP) looks forward to your participation at this year’s 2026 Big Sky GeoCon!


Wednesday April 15, 2026 4:20pm - 4:50pm MDT
Since the 1980s, the Montana DNRC’s Stand Level Inventory (SLI) has supported forest management on Trust Lands through walkthrough-based field assessments of stand conditions. While foundational, this method presented challenges in data consistency, repeatability, and maintenance. Leveraging recent statewide LiDAR acquisition, DNRC developed the Remote Forest Inventory (RFI), integrating timber cruise data with LiDAR to produce spatially continuous, landscape-scale forest metrics. This presentation highlights DNRC’s application of GIS and remote sensing in developing the RFI, a modernization effort that transformed legacy inventory methods into a precise, efficient, and scalable framework for forest data management.
 
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Anna Moser

Remote Sensing Analyst, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
Anna Moser is a Remote Sensing Analyst with the Forest Management Bureau of the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. She develops and maintains forest and vegetation inventory sampling frameworks for Montana’s State Trust Lands. Her professional interests include... Read More →
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Clay Stephenson

MT DNRC
Clay Stephenson is the Forestry Section Supervisor for the Forest Management Bureau of the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. He and his team maintain the DNRC’s silviculture, forest mensuration, and sustained yield calculation programs. His professional interests... Read More →
Wednesday April 15, 2026 4:20pm - 4:50pm MDT
Alpine Room

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