• DUCK CREEK ASSOCIATES, INC. - (DCA) is a consulting firm specializing in natural resources analysis for over 27 years.  Located in Corvallis, Oregon, near the campus of Oregon State University, the firm supplies basic advanced expertise to a variety of clients on a worldwide basis. Principals in the firm specialize in economics, demand/supply studies, biometrics, forest management, inventory, timber cruising, policy issues, forestry education, GIS/GPS analytical and mapping services and environmental services in connection with natural resources.  For more information please contact Terry Droessler (terryd@duckcreekassociates.com  ) or Mark White (mwhite@duckcreekassociates.com).  Phone +1-541-753-4702 or visit our website at  www.duckcreekassociates.com.

• Chandra B. Rai - Postgraduate Student, Lincoln University, New Zealand. Raic1@lincoln.ac.nz
• David Blakesley - David.Blakesley@hri.ac.uk
• Emelie Hubert - emelie@woodproducts.nb.ca
• Jeff Adams - Graduate student, Forest Biometrics Department, Virginia Tech. jeadams@vt.edu
• Matt Lake - Urban Forester, Indiana Department of Natural Resources - Developing a state-wide street tree inventory database.  mlake@dnr.state.in.us
• Michael M. Huebschmann - Natural Resource Economist, Boise Cascade Corporation, Timberland Planning and Development. Mike_Huebschmann@bc.com
• Michal Zak - Regional manager of Scottish Woodlands Ltd., Slovakia.  scottishwoodlands@stonline.sk.
• Piermaria Corona - Associate Professor of Forest Inventory, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Ambientali Forestali, Italy. http://www.unifi.it/unifi/iatf/personale/corona.htm
• Ralph White - R. White Woods Inc., Victoria, BC, Canada. www.whitewoods.com
• Tim Lewis - Ecologist, National Center for Environmental Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. lewis.timothy@epa.gov

AFRICAN DATA SET - The Regional Remote Sensing Centre of the South African Development Community (SADC) has recently released version 2 of the SADC-wide vector dataset.  The vector data is available in Strategic Mapping ASCII BNA format and the maps are at a scale of 1:1 million. Copies of the CD-ROM are available upon requests by contacting Dr. Kennedy Masamvu - kmasamvu@fanr-sadc.org.sw,

HEALTHY COMMUNITIES ENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING - HUD E-MAPS - is a free Internet service that combines information on the U.S. Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) community development and housing programs with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) environmental data. HUD E-MAPS provides: location, type and performance of HUD-funded activities in every neighborhood across the USA; and select EPA information on brownfields, hazardous wastes, air pollution and waste water discharges. Visit the E-MAP site at http://www.hud.gov/emaps

OVERSTORY - The Overstory is a free noncommercial e-mail journal. Subscribers are agroforestry practitioners, researchers, professionals, and enthusiasts in 135 countries. Each issue focuses on a concept for tropical agricultural systems which integrate trees and other perennial plants. Recent topics include: Traditional Agroforestry Systems, Effects of Trees on Soils, Carbon Sequestration, Tropical Home gardens, Agroforestry Information Resources, and Farm Forestry. To view issues 1-70, please visit http://www.overstory.com. For further information contact: overstory@agroforester.com

NEW FOREST RESTORATION ASSESSMENT TOOL -  From TFU - A forest management tool under development by ITTO will speed up the task of identifying forests in need of restoration. See:  http://www.itto.or.jp/inside/current_news/assessment.html

EIS-AFRICA - - EIS-AFRICA is a pan-African, non-profit organization recently established. It is dedicated to strengthening the capacity of Africans to generate, analyze, interpret and freely disseminate and use reliable environmental data and information in support of sustainable development throughout the continent.  EIS-AFRICA invites new members to join the organization. For details contact EIS-AFRICA, c/o CSIR-Environmentek, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001 South Africa. Email: eis.program@mweb.co.za.  You may view their newsletter EIS NEWS at http://www.grida.no/eis-ssa/eisnews/index.htm

FEEDBACK

UNGRAPHING (see FIU 5 Feb 01) - Thanks for all the helpful responses! Gyde

Charles Harper -  "For converting graphs to tables you could take a look at http://www.biosoft.com.  I think they still produce some software called 'UnGraph'. I have been using FigP for many years and noticed this ungraph in their marketing info."  For those that are interested, go to the Biosoft URL, click on Windows Software and then on UnGraph. Price of the software is about $400 USD.
Neil Clark - "I don't know of any software that would be flexible enough (or perhaps smart enough) to be able to analyze any graph.  But a nifty, free image analysis tool can be downloaded (or run online I think) from  http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/.  Then you can just measure your distances or areas do your proportions, scale the data, and . . . voila! Thanks for the good work with the FIUs, they are really helpful to the forestry community."
Andrew Lister - "No info specifically on what you request, but you could easily bring a scanned graph into ArcView and manually digitize the dots/bar tops, and get an output of x,y coordinates of the digitized points.  If you digitize the origin of the graph, too, you've got your data!  Or, you can bring in a cleanly scanned graph and, possibly, convert it into a form that will automate the digitizing of the points, if manual digitizing's not possible."
Oscar Garcia - "I know of two similar freeware programs to help with that.  Essentially manual "screen digitizers", although with some automatic tracing features too.  From the readme's: TRACER version 1.4 for Windows 95/98 (freeware), Author: Marcus Karolewski, Release: September 2000, e-mail: mkarol@latin.com, http://www.ualberta.ca/~mkarol.  WinDIG  Version 2.5, WinDIG is a data digitalization program. Load a Windows bitmap, define a reference system on this bitmap, and get point coordinates. Very useful if you have a scanner. The author :  Mr Dominique LOVY, Dept. of Physical Chemistry, University of GENEVA,30 Quai Ansermet, CH-1211 GENEVE 4,SWITZERLAND. Email : lovy@scsun.unige.ch."

INFORMATION TECHNIQUES AND PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT  (See FIU 5 Feb. 01) - Megh Ranjani Rai writes,  "I am not a technical person per se, but just saw your message in the FIU newsletter. I thought I would float this information to some of my colleagues, who are translating our information collected through participatory surveys on to the GIS. We also have started a Community Forestry mapping exercise that uses ortho photos with the community to demarcate CF boundaries. If you would like information, please feel free to contact Mr. Bhubhan Shrestha (Bhuban@menris1.icimod.org.np), our coordinator for the Exercise and GIS expert."

• INPUT SOUGHT - From Alex Korotkov - "The next meeting of the Team of Specialists (ToS) on the Temperate and Boreal Forest Resources Assessment (TBFRA) will be held at the beginning of June 2001 in Victoria (Canada). The UN-ECE/FAO TEAM has been working on the assessment of the wide range of variables/parameters of the temperate/boreal forests in 55 industrialised countries, and contributes to the international forest policy dialogue. As you know, the latest TBFRA-2000 Report "Forest Resources of Europe, CIS, North America, Australia, Japan and New Zealand" was published in a hard format in the year 2000, and placed on the UN/ECE Timber Committee Website http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/fra/pdf/contents.htm. The TEAM plans to review the TBFRA-2000 follow-up work, to consider the use and forest policy implications of the latest TBFRA findings, and to discuss the preparation for the next round of Assessment. Any ideas and information relevant to the above points on the ToS agenda, especially on use and implication of the TBFRA data/information, as well as your suggestions on how to make the next round (and the outcome) of the international temperate/boreal forest resources assessments better, would be very helpful and much appreciated by the TBFRA TEAM." Please send your notes on the matter to Alex Korotkov, alexander.korotkov@unece.org

• FOREST INTERNSHIP SOUGHT - Marc Alexandre writes "I am in my second year at the French National School of Agriculture and Agronomy (ENSAT) and I have to gain research experience to achieve my degree of "Ingénieur Agronome". I'm very interested in the forestry sector (I studied last year the statut of conifer species in the French planting) so I'm looking for  a forester or a forest research team who would host me for ten weeks this summer between the end of June and the end of August. This internship would allow me to improve my knowledge of forestry.  I speak fluent French. If the country is English speaking, it would also allow me to improve my English. Please contact me at alexandr@etu.ensat.fr  if you know of any opportunities."

• ASSISTANTSHIP OR INTERNSHIP SOUGHT. Michael-Gerold Neuman writes "Having completed my Masters Degree in Forestry Science at the Georg-August University in Germany this past fall, I would like to supplement my studies with an 1-year assistantship or internship in the USA in the field of Forest Engineering, Work Science or Utilization; preferably one covering harvesting and forwarding techniques. My areas of emphasis are Forest Engineering, Utilization, Management, and Work Science. I will only be able to consider positions providing a living wage. I would appreciate any information about such opportunities. The beginning of the assistant- or internship could be immediate or through fall. If you require more information about my forestry education, skills or work experience, I will be happy to send my resume." You may currently contact Michael-Gerold c/o Ingrid Stoltmann, 517 Oxford Circle #319, Davis, CA 95616 USA. Tel: +1-530-792-0955. Email: oberforstmeister@gmx.de.

• ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF FORESTRY - Full-time  (12-month) tenure accruing position in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation (SFRC) (www.sfrc.ufl.edu) , Florida, USA. The initial appointment will be 60% teaching (College of Agricultural and Life Sciences) and 40% Extension (Florida Cooperative Extension Service).  This assignment may be changed in accordance with the needs of the unit.   Teaching responsibilities will focus on the socio-economic dimensions of the curriculum to enhance and bring balance to the strong biophysical science competencies now present. Initial course responsibilities will include Forest Management, Natural Resources Policy, Integrated Natural Resources Management.  Other courses may be added. The individual is expected to participate in graduate education, chair graduate committees, and supervise thesis and dissertation research in areas that strengthen the programmatic responsibilities of the faculty member. The faculty member is expected to develop a strong program to assist private forestland owners in making management decisions that lead to profitable outcomes from environmentally sound stewardship.  The faculty member will support county faculty by organizing and conducting in-service training programs, developing publications and other media for program delivery and assisting in workshops, field days and seminars in forest management.  Ph.D. in forestry with specialization in forest management is required.  Closing date of March 15, 2001. REFER TO POSITION # 913770. Contact: Dr. Barry Brecke, Chair, Search and Screen Committee, University of Florida, West Florida Research and Education Center, 4253 Experiment Rd., Hwy 182, Jay, FL 32565-9524 USA. Tel: +1-850-994-5215. FAX: +1-850-994-9589.  E-mail: bjbe@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu

• Allison- Gary W. 1999. The Implications of Experimental Design for Biodiversity Manipulations.The American Naturalist.  153:26-??. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/embpcgi.pl/cgi-bin/res-page.epl?objid=303144
• Agyepong, G.T. et al. 2000. Harnessing Spatial Information for Development - Ghana's Spatial Data Infrastructure Initiative Advances. EIS News October: 34. http://www.grida.no/eis-ssa/eisnews/index.htm
• Bennett, Elizabeth L.;  Robinson,  John G. 2000. Hunting of Wildlife in Tropical Forests Implications for Biodiversity and Forest Peoples. The World Bank Environment Department. Biodiversity Series — Impact Studies Paper No. 76.  You can obtain a free electronic Word file with the document in English, Spanish, or French from Sharon Esumei at sesumei@worldbank.org or download in PDF format at www.worldbank.org/biodiversity.
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• Kilbride, C.M.2000. Site and soil indicators for the production of high quality ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.). COFORD, Dublin, Ireland. http://www.coford.ie/reports/ashdoc.pdf
• Manies, Kristen L.; Mladenoff, David J.2000. Testing methods to produce landscape-scale presettlement vegetation maps from the U.S. public land survey records. Landscape Ecology 15 (8):741-754 http://www.wkap.nl/oasis.htm/268604
• Mayle, B.A .et al. 2000.  The use of trackway counts to establish an index of deer presence. Mammal Review 30(3):233-238
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• Nijland, G. O. 2000. A variant of the dry-weight rank method for botanical analysis of grassland with dominance-based multipliers. Grass and Forage Science 55(4):309-313.
• Schiller, A.; Tolbert, V.R. 1996. Hardwood energy crops and wildlife diversity: Investigating potential benefits  for breeding birds and small mammals.  http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/papers/bioen96/schiler1.html
• Schreuder, H. T. et al. 2001. For What Applications Can Probability and Non-Probability Sampling Be Used?  Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 66 (3):281-29  http://www.wkap.nl/oasis.htm/254796
• Sheil, D., et  al.  2000. Long-term permanent plot observations of vegetation dynamics in Budongo, a Ugandan rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 16:765-800.
• Turner, A. Keith. 2001. Discover the importance of LIDAR technology. GEOWorld 13(12):30-31. http://www.geoplace.com

25-27 February 2001. Introduction to ArcView and the use of GIS Workshop. Eatonville, Washington, USA. Contact: Kelly O'Brian. Tel: +1-206-543-0867. Fax: +1-206-685-6705. Email: kobrian@u.washington.edu.

27 February 2001. A Burning Issue: A Case For Abolishing the U.S. Forest Service. SAF Luncheon, 1130 Social, 1200 Luncheon. Library of Congress, Madison Bldg, Montpelier Room, Dining Room C 101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC. (Captial South Metro Stop), Buffet Menu: Cost $17.00. RSVP by February 23  with reservation  to: Terri Bates,+1-703/538-1134 or email: mtbates@erols.com

16-20 March 2001. Forest Appraisal. Durham, North Carolina, USA.  Contact: Sheila Kissinger. Tel: +1-919-613-8082. Fax: +1-919-684-8471. Email: slkiss@duke.edu.

26-27 March 2001. Hands-On GPS/GIS Mapping. Everett Community College, Everett, Washington, USA. Cost:  $370 (two-day course) For information: Contact:  Richard Ash @ Global Mapping Technology. Tel:+1-541-754-3488   email: gmtgps@peak.org

26-30 March 2001. Carbon accounting and emissions trading related to bioenergy, wood products and carbon sequestration. Canberra, Australia.   www.joanneum.ac.at/iea-bioenergy-task38.  Conatact: JOANNEUM RESEARCH (attn Ms. Kimberly Robertson), Elisabethstrasse 5, A-8010 Graz, Austria, Tel: +43 316 876 1330 (or +64 7 343 5899),  Fax: +43 316 876 91330
E-mail: kimberly.robertson@joanneum.ac.at

27-29 March 2001. Tennessee Geographic Information Council Conference. Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA. Contact: david.speight@infocode.com. URL: http://www.tngic.org.

28 March -1 April 2001.  Making Environmental History Relevant in the 21st Century.  A Joint Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society. Durham, North Carolina, USA. URL:  http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/. Contact Steven Anderson, President, Forest History Society, 701 Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701 USA. Phone: +1-919-682-9319; FAX: 919-682-2349. Email: stevena@duke.edu

26-28 April 2001. Second COST E21 Meeting. Budapest, Hungary. Part of this meeting will be a one-day Workshop on "Impacts of forest management practices on ecosystem carbon storage", Friday, April 27, 2000 The aim of this workshop is to review the state of knowledge regarding the impacts of forest management practices on the sequestration and storage of carbon. A draft programme of this workshop is available at http://www.rr.ualberta.ca/Staff/mlindner/budapest.html . Contact: Dr. Marcus Lindner, email: marcus.lindner@ualberta.ca.

27 May - 1 June 2001. Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists -Urban Wetlands: Protecting and Enhancing the Resource. Chicago, Illinois, USA.URL: http://www.sws.org/chicago

5 June – 16 July 2001. Agroforestry for Sustainable Development (AGFOR). Training course. Los Baños, Philippines.  (6 weeks) US $3,600.Contact: The Director, Training Center for Tropical Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability (TREES), University of the Philippines Los Baños, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, College, Laguna  PHILIPPINES; Tel. No.: +(63 49)  536-2268 or 536-2736; Fax: +(63 49) 536-3340; Email: trees@laguna.net

6-8 June 2001. 3rd International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development. Alicante, Spain. Contact: Conference Secretariat: Fax: 44-23-80-292-583; Email: shanley@wessex.ac.uk; URL: www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2001/ecosud01/

11-16 June 2001. XV Latin American Congress of Soil Science. Cuba. Contact: Dr. R. Villegas Delgado, Ave Van Troi No 17203, Boyeros, Havana, CP 19210, Cuba. Fax: 53-7-666 036; Email: XV@inica.edu.cu

12 -16 June  2001. 3rd  International Symposium on Experiences with New Forest and Environmental Laws in European Countries with Economies in Transition.  Jundola (Bulgaria).  Contact Peter HERBST, Wulfenstr. 15, A-9500 VILLACH, Austria. Fax: +43/4242 - 2640 48; Email:   HP@net4you.at  URL:  http://iufro.boku.ac.at/iufro/iufronet/d6/hp61300.htm

18-19 June 2001. Precision Forestry Cooperative International Symposium. Seattle, Washington, USA. Contact: Ms. Megan O'Shea - tel: +1-206-543-9744. Email: moshea@u.washington.edu. URL: www.dfr.washington.edu/cfrweb/pfc.

25-29 June 2001. Forest biometry, modelling and information science. Greenwich, UK. IUFRO 4.11. Call for papers open until 16 April 2001. Contact: k.rennolls@gre.ac.uk. URL: http://cms1.gre.ac.uk/conferences/iufro/

8-13 July 2001. Third International Conference on Mycorrhizas. Adelaide, Australia. Contact: Sally Jay,  P.O. Box 2331, Kent Town, South Australia.5071. Phone/fax: +61 (08) 8362 0038.   Email: COM3@camtech.net.au. URL: http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/Soil_Water/3icom.html

17-20 July 2001. International Conference on Grassland and Industry.  Hailar City in Hulunbuir League, Inner Mongolia, China. http://www.mtnforum.org/calendar/summer01.htm#hailar

5-9 November 2001. 5th AfricaGIS Conference and Exhibition. Nairobi, Kenya.  Registration $150. Contact: AFRICAGIS 2001, c/o Nasser Olwero, Gath Management Ltd., P.O. Box 14279, Nairobi, Kenya. Tel: +254-2-444837. Fax: +254-2-443838. Email: Nasser@gathkenya.com. URL: http://www.grida.no/eis-ssa/africagis2001.

June 2002. 3rd International Canopy Conference. Cairns, Australia. For more details contact: Eileen.Domagala@premiers.qld.gov.au

Baltic Environmental Atlas – http://maps.grida.no.baltic

Guide to Spatial Land and Resource Information in LRMP - http://www.luco.gov.bc.ca/lrmp/spatial/aboutguide.htm

Determining Best Management Practices for Timber Harvesting Operations in Kentucky: A Training Manual for Loggers - http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/for/for70/for70.htm

Glossary of Weather Terms - http://www.weather.com/glossary/index.html

International Plant Genetic Resources Institute - http://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/

FloraMap - http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/floramap/

Center for Grassland Studies Newsletter Articles - http://www.ianr.unl.edu/ianr/cgs/articles.htm

GIS Sources for Cultural Landscape Planning, Management & Research - http://www.icls.harvard.edu/SOURCES/GIS3.HTM

Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy - http://www.ecnc.nl/doc/europe/legislat/strafull.html

Australian Collaborative Land Evaluation Program (ACLEP) Newsletters - http://www.cbr.clw.csiro.au/aclep/newsletters.htm

The Literature of Rangeland Resource Science - http://library.humboldt.edu/~rls/litrange.htm

International Society of Tropical Foresters -  http://www.cof.orst.edu/org/istf

Dr. Stout's Forestry Links - http://www.neosoft.com/~inflo/fory1.htm

Silvicultural Terms in Canada - http://nfdp.ccfm.org/silviterm/silvi_e/silvitermintroe.htm#intro

Teaching for a Sustainable World: International Edition - http://ee.environment.gov.au/pd/tsw/intros/index.html