Regional Forest Ecosystem Surveys

This is a collection for (and of) regional forest resource and ecosystem surveys, including assessments, inventories, bibliographies and ongoing monitoring activities. Links are to maps, data, and other information about USDA-FS Bibliographic Information. the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program, forest mensuration (measurement), monitoring and classification methods, related sampling issues, nontimber forest product surveys (e.g., mushrooms), regional flora and fauna surveys, (e.g., breeding bird surveys), land use analysis, agency and organizational contacts, and comparable programs in other countries. If you think your name, agency, or web page should be included, or if you wish to comment, write your message (and URL if available) here.

Under construction and periodic revision by Vic Rudis. On line since April 14, 1995.
Last changed: April 26, 2001.

United States

Regional and state(province)wide forest surveys and contacts:

USDA-FS FIA Program
USDA-FS Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program
Seamless-map browsing MIT with NRCS
Related information regarding national initiatives for information delivery and standards http://www.opengis.org/wmt/index.htm http://www.opengis.org/ http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html I also found NRCS's site for Technical Resources an interesting access point to data, tools, models, etc. http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/TechRes.html Patrice Janiga Assistant Director Design and Quality Assurance USDA Forest Service, Inventory & Monitoring Institute 2150 Centre Avenue, Bldg A, Suite 300, Fort Collins CO 80526 Website: http://www.fs.fed.us/institute/ E-mail: pjaniga@fs.fed.us Fax: (970) 295-5885; Mobile: (970) 227-4359 Desk phone (970) 295-5712 USDA-NRCS National Resources Inventory(NRI) Program

Maps, data bases, GIS applications:

Federal

FIA forest type map, older version
Tree species basal area maps by county.
Southern red oak actual vs predicted species occurrence, Baldcypress
Lower Mississippi Valley CDROM and FIA examples
FIA data base manual for traditional Eastern, Western U.S. FIA information.
Latest SRSFIA field manual

Climate/Pollution/Ozone:Alabama. Loblolly Pine, and Ozone, Uncertainty in these, Loblolly pine southwide
Abstracts of selected publications by SRS FIA Starkville analysts, 1986-1994.
Nontraditional (under construction):
Southern Research Station FIA 1996 understory species listSince January 1998, detailed understory is restricted to TN 1996-1998, and not surveyed by FIA in other Southern States.
Urbanization and timber resource assessment (Virginia)
Forestry conceptions and misconceptions
Information about the RPA Nationwide forest resource database.
FIA forest stand, plot, and tree database.
National Resources Inventory (NRI) earth cover maps on agricultural and soil resource themes.

Some links for U.S. species identification:
Plant Families
Bioinformatics, arboretum, and flora photo galleries: Texas A&M, U.Delaware, U.Wisconsin.
PLANTS/Kartesz nomenclature and citations of species identification and nomenclature authorities.

State

GIS catalog for most States
Selected information:
Arkansas Center for Advanced Spatial Technology, AR earth cover
Kentucky forest area 1978
Mississippi MARIS Miss. Automated Resource Information System metadata and selected maps
North Carolina NC geographic info
Texas TX metadata and file info

On-line documents:

EcoFIA Initiative Includes a forest type map, an extensive ecological and multiple resource forest inventory bibliography, and other links.
FIA Overview
FIA multiresource publications compendium, 1979-1990 (1.8MB, PDF format)
Draft 1995 Resources Planning Act (RPA) Program: Long-term strategic forest and range resource planning document (Draft).
U.S. RPA Assessment: Timber, Forest resources (1993) and 1992 statistics, and metric version.
Forest distribution maps.
Other RPA reports: selected FS research report abstracts.
U.S. forest biomass resources
FIA Users Manuals: Eastern U.S., Western U.S.
Conterminous U.S. gypsy moth susceptibility
Modeling present and potential tree species importance, eastern U.S., Details of species importance modeling

FIA information and contacts

Federal

Map and links to all FIA Units
Southern Research Station South central: AL, AR, LA, MS, OK, TN, TX, and southeast: FL, GA, NC, SC, VA, and Puerto Rico). Also maintains the FIA data base of common FIA Unit statistics for the U.S. and territories.