• ESRI -  the world's leading supplier of geographic information system (GIS) technology to natural resource professionals.  For more information visit the ESRI site at http://www.esri.com/forestry  or contact them at info@esri.com.

• HAGLOF INC. invites you to visit their booth at this year's Society of American Foresters National Convention in Washington DC -16-20 November 2000 (www.safnet.org/calendar/natcon.htm).  Please stop by booth #324 to see the whole product line for forest measuring instruments.  We will be featuring the Mantax  Computer Caliper, which is great for FAST, ACCURATE, and RELIABLE data collection.  For more information please contact us by phone +1-601-856-5119 or e-mail haglofinc@aol.com. URL: www.haglof.net.

• JUNIPER SYSTEMS, manufacturer of rugged field computers and GPS for forest management and forest product applications. Their Allegro Field PC has both Windows CE and DOS operating systems for application flexibility and is rugged and waterproof for use in outdoor environments. It is ideal for forest inventory applications. For more information, visit Juniper Systems at http://www.junipersys.com  or contact them via email at js@junipersys.com.

• THE BEN MEADOWS COMPANY, their 500 paged forestry product catalog featuring over 9,000 products, is the only tool you need as an outdoor professional!  Their products range from compasses to drip torches, visit their web site to order your free catalog at: http://www.benmeadows.com/international/lang.html  or request a copy at export@benmeadows.com.   They ship worldwide and maintain stock in their warehouse in Atlanta, Georgia, USA for fast delivery to your door.

SOUTHEM ONLINE, a fortnightly headline news service of the Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal.  For further information on the publications, products and services offered, go to: www.southernhemisphereforestry.co.nz

NATIONAL LAND COVER DATASET NOW AVAILABLE - From: Interamerican Resources Management Newsletter 29 October 00 - The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have teamed up to compile the first seamless National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) using satellite imagery for the conterminous United States. At 30-meter resolution, the NLCD is the most detailed land cover information ever compiled at a national level. The new CD-ROMs include data for the states east of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Data for the remaining states will be available within the next six months. The first eight CD's of a planned 31-volume disc set contains 21 categories of land cover information across the lower 48 states. These data are used in a variety of national and regional applications, including watershed management, environmental inventories, transportation modeling and land management. For complete details visit - http://www.usgs.gov/public/press/public_affairs/press_releases/pr1299m.html

PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS PROTOCOLS FOR USING TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC ARTHROPODS IN BIODIVERSITY STUDIES - This bibliographic database includes over 1100 citations to papers on the use of insects and other terrestrial and freshwater arthropods in biodiversity studies. This is a working compilation derived from multiple sources. It is not intended to be comprehensive in coverage of any taxon or geographic region or subject. Most of the citations include keywords. http://entomology.si.edu:591/entomology/MethodsBib/search.html

FOREST LANDOWNER'S GUIDE TO INTERNET RESOURCES - http://willow.ncfes.umn.edu/pubs/misc/ir/index.htm. Guide's intent is to focus primarily on publications/documents/fact sheets, suggestions for future additions/deletions are welcome. Contact: Mark Buccowich, USDA Forest Service 11 Campus Blvd., Suite 200, Newtown Square PA 19073 USA. Tel: +1-610-557-4029. E-Mail: mbuccowich@fs.fed.us

BAMBOO DISCUSSION GROUP - All foresters interested in bamboo are invited to join a discussion group on bamboo plantations.  To subscribe please send an email to bamboo-plantations-subscribe@egroups.com

NEW FIU SUBCRIBERS - FIU is pleased to welcome:

• Amanda Mortl - National Council for Science and the Environment. Email: amortl@hotmail.com
• Santiago Saura Martínez de Toda - Forestry engineer, whose main research topics are quantitative landscape ecology and forest cover mapping from remote sensed data, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain). E-mail: santisaura@montes.upm.es
• Kimber Gray - GIS Specialist, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada. Email: Kimberly.Gray@Region.York.on.ca
• Gordon Armstrong - Technical Director, Mamirauá Sustainable Development Institute, Brazil. gordon@pop-tefe.rnp.br
• Ian Thompson - EMBRAPA, Brazil. ian@cpatu.embrapa.br
• Richard Kisakye -  Nyabyeya Forestry College, Uganda. kisakye.nfc@infocom.co.ug
• Mike Nolan - Director, Rainforest and Reef 501 (c)(3) non-profit. rainforest@mail.org or mnolan01@sprynet.com.   Web: http://www.rainforestandreef.org
• Bert Mead - Anchorage Forestry Sciences Lab, PNW Research Station, Anchorage, Alaska. bmead@fs.fed.us
• Attilio - Faculty member in Forest School of State University of West-Center of Paraná State, Brazil, teaching Surveying, Photogrammetry and hotoInterpretation, Remote Sensing and GIS apllied to Forestry. Email: disperati@sul.com.br
• Doug Lauvstad - Canada. dlauvstad@keewatincc.mb.ca

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

• GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF BAMBOO RESOURCES - Over 1,000 known bamboo species grow over wide areas of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America and contribute to the livelihoods of millions of people.  Despite its economic significance, statistics on bamboo resources, especially in natural stands, are very poor. Classified as a “non-timber forest product”, bamboo is not routinely included in resource inventory.  A good and transparent estimate of bamboo and rattan resources has yet to be developed.  As a first step to improve the information available, the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) and the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) are jointly initiating a project to estimate the magnitude and distribution of bamboo resources within natural stands.  In the first instance, the project will combine information on the distribution of individual taxa with floristic data and global data on forest cover to generate a global distribution and estimated total area of forest containing bamboo.  For this reason, we are seeking advice and information about bamboo occurrence and distribution.  We would be grateful for any information you might be able to provide concerning: the species of bamboo present in your area; physical factors that determine their distribution; the abundance of bamboo resources; the abundance of bamboo within particular forest types; additional sources of information or contacts we should make. Please contact us with comments and questions: Nadia Bystriakova and Valerie Kapos, UNEP – WCMC, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK, Telephone: +44 (0)1223 277314; Fax: +44 (0)1223 277136. Email: nadia.bystriakova@unep-wcmc.org or val.kapos@unep-wcmc.org

• FORESTRY TRAINING CONTACTS SOUGHT - Carlton Sambury writes, "I am interested in linking with all interested in Forestry Training at the sub-professional level. I head the Forestry School, at the Eastern Institute of Agriculture and Forestry (ECIAF), here in Trinidad and Tobago. We are interested in sharing experiences, training methods, visits, etc., for the benefit of our trainees, the Institute and forestry in the region and beyond. We are also interested in Newsletters, or other materials related to the development of such training.' You may contact Carlton at Eastern Caribbean Institute of Agriculture and Forestry ECIAF), Centeno, Via Arima, Trinidad and Tobago. Tel: 1 868 646 2650 (o). Fax: 66 3964(fax.) Email:  casamy_0000@yahoo.com

• REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON PERMANENT SAMPLE PLOTS (PSP) - From RILNET - Plinio Sist writes  "Although there are many studies and research results regarding the immediate impact of alternative logging techniques on forest stands, long-term monitoring based on permanent sample plots where ecological conditions and stand characteristics were recorded before logging and then periodically afterwards are still very few. Of course, I know about the PSP set up in Uganda which have been monitored since 1939, those in Brasil by Silva, in French Guiana by Cirad-Forêt. For Indonesia, the PSP of STREK are the only experimental plots set design which remained undisturbed (I do not know about the DfID project in Palangkaraya) whereas many others, like that set up by TROPENBOS in ITCI, burned during the successive fire events in the 1990s. I am interested to have more information on the PSP network in Southeast Asia related to the monitoring of forest dynamics after logging." If you have any information, know where to find relevant data on PSPs and/or have a document that you can send to Plinio, please do not hesitate to contact him at: CIRAD-Forêt, TA/10C, Campus Internat, 34398 Montpellier Cedex5, France. Phone: 33-4-67 59 37 66; Fax: 33-4-67 59 37 33. Email: plinio.sist@cirad.fr

• TREE INVENTORY SOFTWARE NEEDED - Cecilia Polansky writes, "Have you heard anything about FIDAPS or other software developed for easily getting tables of trees per hectare by diameter class?  If no such thing exists, what are the chances of working on developing such a thing?  It would have to be something that minimum-level forest agents in these places could use, kind of like what the US has in their various cruise programs sold through Forestry Suppliers (in British or US units; I'm looking for metric).  Also it would ideally allow for cluster sampling. We just completed an inventory in a 10 000 hectare forest of miombo species in Zambia.  Data was processed through SAS, but it requires a lot of programming knowledge and doesn't put tables out exactly as we'd like." If you can help, please contact Cecilia Polansky, CLUSA-nrm, PO box 510-586, Chipata, Zambia. Email: cecep@pop3.zamnet.zm

• REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON TRAINING COURSES -  From the Forest List - The DFID funded Cross River State Community Forestry Project, Nigeria is seeking details of training courses that might be appropriate for Middle / Senior Management of the Cross River State Forestry Commission.  The focus of the courses might include some or all of the following: the concepts and application of community-based, participatory forest Management, community-led forest inventory, the management of institutional change within forest organizations, the development of communication and public-awareness raising skills and, strategies. Typically we would expect such courses to last from 3 - 6 weeks.  The course language should be English. A short summary of the location, timing, content and cost of the course, together with a contact for further information would suffice at this stage. For more information, please contact: Nick Mottram, on behalf of Scott Wilson Resource Consultants, Email: Enauknam@mram.fsnet.co.uk

• SOIL CONSERVATION POSITION WANTED - Glauber Silva Peixoto Santos is a Forestry engineer, postgraduate in Soil and Environment. He is fluent in Portuguese, English, and Spanish and has basic knowledge of Japanese.  Glauber is currently at the Directory Body of Forestry Development in Brazil and is seeking new opportunities in the fields of soil conservation, mitigation and nutrient cycling. For more information., you may reach Glauber at   Rua Dr. João Caricchio Filho, 87, Jequiezinho /  CEP, 45200-000 / Jequié - Bahia - Brazil.  Home phone/fax: +55 +73 - 525 - 0485 E-mail: gsps@sst.com.br

• GEOTECHNICAL/ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER- The University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management (FOREM), Fredericton, Canada, seeks to fill a tenure- track position in geotechnical and transportation engineering relating to forestry. Appointment will be at the Assistant or Associate Professor level, beginning spring 2001, or as soon as an appropriate candidate is found. Technical areas of responsibility for this position include geotechnical engineering (e.g., unbound road design, slope stability, erosion control measures) and transportation engineering, primarily road planning, layout, and design. The successful candidate will be responsible for teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels, will be expected to supervise graduate students, and will have a strong commitment to developing a complementary research program. In addition to demonstrated ability to teach, a PhD in civil or forest engineering, or equivalent demonstrable research capability and potential are important criteria for selection.  Eligibility for registration, as a professional engineer in the province of New Brunswick, is also an important criterion. Please send applications, including CV's and the names of three references (applications will be accepted until the position is filled) to:  Dr. David MacLean,  Dean Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management,  University of New Brunswick,  P. O. Box 44555,  Fredericton, NB  E3B 5A3, Canada. Tel: +1-506-458-7552 Fax: +1-506-453-3558 E-mail: macleand@unb.ca

• STATISTICIAN - USDA Forest Service, Missoula, Montana or Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. GS-1530-11. $20.05/hr. Vacancy Number R104-002-01D. Closing date 13 November 2000.  The purpose of the position is to provide advice and expertise in the application of modern statistical methods and theory to inventory and monitoring reports. The incumbent is responsible for data analysis, statistical assessment, and reporting of forest inventory and monitoring data. The incumbent participates in the planning and design of inventory and monitoring work; provides support and quality control for forest vegetation inventory and monitoring work and vegetation data bases; provides analysis and interpretation of data resulting from field surveys and remotely sensed digital imagery and data; and works collaboratively on geospatial analysis of data with Forest ecologists and Geographic Information Systems specialists. Integrates detailed field data with the forest vegetation map developed from remote sensing data; interprets results; provides statistical assessments of the relationships between these two data sources. The incumbent provides mathematical, analytical, and statistical support for forest planning efforts, technical specialists, and cooperating scientists and statisticians.   All applicants must have a 4 year degree that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in one of the physical or biological sciences.. Credit toward meeting statistical course requirements should be given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content appears to be statistical methods. In addition to the above, applicants must have either:  One year (12 months) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 level OR A combination of education (above mentioned 15 semester hours in statistics) and specialized experience. OR A PhD. The experience should have included a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) collecting, computing, and analyzing statistical data, and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance. For more information, contact: PERSONNEL, tel: +1-208-476-8393.  fax: +1-208-476-8328.  Email: pmgmt/r1_clearwater@fs.fed.us

•  MATHMATICAL STATISTICIAN -   The Southern USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis Unit (FIA) in Asheville, North Carolina, USA is currently recruiting a GS-1529-13/14 Mathematical Statistician.   This is a Research (paneled) position whose duties will include 1) develop research plans for forest inventory methods, modeling and estimation; 2) devise new and improved sampling designs for forest inventory and monitoring; 3) devise statistical models for inventory estimation and projection; 4) serve as a team leader for developing solutions to update/model inventory attributes; 5) evaluate the operational feasibility of competing modeling solutions to updating forest attributes; 6) apply statistical concepts to forest mensuration problems; and, 7) publish results of research in peer-reviewed forestry and scientific journals and at conferences.  The closing date is November 14, 2000.  For more information, please contact Richard Quick at +1-828-259-0523.

• Armitage, Ian. 1998. Guidelines for the management of tropical forests 1. The production of wood (FAO forestry paper 135). http://www.fao.org/docrep/W8212E/w8212e00.htm#Contents
• Cole, Stephen. 2000. Robots in the sky. Scientific American 283(5):14,18. www.sciam.com
• Howard, P.C., et al.  2000. Protected area planning in the tropics: Uganda's national system of forest nature reserves. Conservation Biology 14(3): 858-875
• Lanza, Robert P. et al. 2000. Cloning Noah's Ark. Scientific American 283(5):84-89. www.sciam.com
• Le Cup, I.; Nicholson, K. 2000. Community based tree and forest product based enterprises: market analysis and development. Field Manual. FAO and RECOFTC. Contact: The Community Forestry Unit, FAO Forestry Department, viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy. E-mail: petra.vandeKop@fao.org.
• Lindenmayer, D.B., et al. 2000. Indicators of biodiversity for ecologically sustainable forest management. Conservation Biology 14 (4): 941-950.
• Lykke, A.M. 2000. Local perceptions of vegetation change and priorities for conservation of woody savanna vegetation in Senegal. Journal of Environmental Management 59(2):107-120.
• Nagendra, H.; Gadgil, M. 1999. Biodiversity assessment at multiple scales: Linking remotely sensed data with field information. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA, 96, 9154-9158.
• Olson, Dick et al. 1996. MODNET: Data Processing, Distribution, and Archive System for the MODLERS Project. Draft. http://www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/~jhp7e/modlers/RSEissue/Modnet2.htm
• Palo, Matti (ed.) 1999. Forest transitions and carbon fluxes - Global scenarios and policies. World Development Studies 15. 146+ p.  The United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economic Research.  For more information, contact tuula@wider.unu.org.
• Ravan,   Shirish A. 1999. GIS in Biodiversity Conservation -  http://www.gisdevelopment.net/application/biodiversity_forestry/gisbicon1_so99.htm
• Skole,  David L., 1994? Mapping the Emission of Carbon Dioxide from Deforestation in Southeast Asia Using Remote Sensing and GIS-Based Numerical Models.  EPA Grant #CR-816278. http://www.bsrsi.msu.edu/overview/reports/pathreport.html
• Swerdlow, Joel L. 2000. Nature's medicine - Plants that heal. National Geographic Books. 400 p.  $35 US.
• Wright, Robert A., Aschenbach, Jon. 1994. Integrating GPS, Forest Inventory, GIS, And Image Processing For An Operational Resource Information System. http://www.odyssey.maine.edu/gisweb/spatdb/acsm/ac94085.html

12-15 March 2001. Riparian Habitat and Floodplains Conference. Radisson Hotel, Sacramento, California, USA. Registration and program information can be found at: http://www.tws-west.org/riparian/

4 April 2001. The impacts of logging on mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King). Oxford Forestry Institute, UK. For further information and a registration form please contact Nick Brown (nick.brown@plants.ox.ac.uk

13 May - 15 June 2001. Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring for Adaptive Management Course. SIMAB, Front Royal, Virginia, USA. $4500 USD. Contact: Christopher Ros, Smithsonian Institution, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Suite 3123, Washington, DC 20560-0705 USA. Tel: +1-202-357-4793. Fax: 202-786-2557. Email: cjr@ic.si.edu. URL: www.si.edu/simab

15-18 May 2001. 21st EARSeL Symposium. Contact: EARSeL, 2 avenue Rapp, F-75340 Paris Cedex 07 France. Tel: +33-1-45-56-73-60. Fax: +33-1-45-56-73-61. URL: http://www-earsel.cma.fr.

22-23 June 2001. Second symposium on remote sensing of urban areas. Regensburg, Germany. Contact: C. Juergens. Email: carsten.juergens@geogaphie.uni-regensburg.de. URL: http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_III/Geographie/insitut/termine/termine.htm.

9-13 July 2001. ESRI's User Conference 2001. San Diego, California, USA. Contact: Email: uc2000@esri.com. Tel: +1-909-793-2853 ext. 1-1363. Web: www.esri.com/events/uc.

People Exploring Ecosystem Resources as Stewards - Collecting - http://www.eosc.osshe.edu/peers/lessons/collecting.html

Secondary Vegetation Ecological, Social, and Remote Sensing Issues - http://lba-ecology.gsfc.nasa.gov/lbaeco/Investigator_Info/Reports/SecondaryForest/secforest_051699.htm

Rockdoctors guide to mineral identification - http://www.cobweb.net/~bug2/rock4.htm

Global Biodiversity Assessment - Summary for Policy-Makers - http://www.scitec.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/globio/ass.htm#anchor2317782

The Global Taxonomy Initiative - http://www.biodiv.org/spec-tax/gti/index.html

Forest Survey Of India - http://www.gisdevelopment.net/geodata/map/fsoi.htm