• 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.

• Ana María Giménez - Investigadora de la Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Mi especialidad es Anatomía de Madera, Anillos de crecimiento y Dendrología. amig@unse.edu.ar
• Dererl Abayneh - National Tree Seed Project, Ethiopia. ntsp@telecom.net.et
• Gordon Amundson - gordonamundson@hotmail.com
• Juna Graciela Moglia - Prof. Adjunto de Dendrología y Xilología, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, Argentina. vimog@unse.edu.ar
• Katherine Smith - A recent graduate from Northern Arizona University with Masters in Forestry, specializing in Silviculture. rynsmith68@yahoo.com
• Nick Ping - n.ping@landfood.unimelb.edu.au

FIELD METHOD DOCUMENTATION AVAILABLE - From FIA News 1 March 2001 - The USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis program has recently updated their documentation of field methods. Version 1.5 of the phase 2 field method guide covers basic sample location monumentation, plot establishment procedures, condition class determination, and basic tree mensuration and damage measurements. The Phase 3 sampling protocols (conducted on 1/16 of the phase 2 plots) include measures of ozone biondicator plants, lichen community sampling, soil sampling, tree crown classification, down woody debris and fuel measures, and methods for a pilot test of vegetation diversity and structure measurement. All documents are available on the FIA web site at http://fia.fs.fed.us/library.htm#Manuals in MS Word 2000 format.

FEEDBACK

• STATISTICAL PACKAGES - (see 5 Mar FIU) - From Chris Cieszewski via GAOF list - Probably Statistica and possibly StatGraphics would be an ideal choice for you. If you ever get to more complicated nonlinear problems you might consider S+. If you're a FORTRAN programmer, and don't shy from using poscript graphics, an ultimate choice for the later might be the TSP. Also, TSP is the cheapest of them all and possibly the most robust from numerical stability point of view.

• WHAT DOES YOUR INVENTORY COST? - Bernie Parresol is seeking for information on typical inventory cost per Hectare for a friend in China. Bernie knows it depends on the terrain and the type of information one is seeking but he would like some possible scenarios of cost. If you can you provide any insight on this please contact Bernie at bparresol@fs.fed.us.

• USFS SEEKING FIA CUSTOMER FEEDBACK - From FIA News 1 March 2001 - In their efforts to solicit feedback for continuous program improvement, the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis Unit has posted a Customer Service Questionnaire on their website http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/fia/wo_survey.htm. The objective of this questionnaire is to solicit feedback on the 'status and trends' in user satisfaction with the FIA program. The information gathered will be used to identify priority areas for program improvement, as well as to satisfy program and Forest Service requirements with respect to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) reporting requirements. Eventually, FIA will incorporate the questionnaire directly into the various FIA online database systems, so that users are automatically offered the opportunity to complete the form. If you have not done so already, please take a few minutes to complete the survey and help the USFS to establish a baseline for measuring improvement in the FIA program.

• RESEARCH COOPERATORS NEEDED - As the inventor of a new soil cultivating attachment for Reforestation /Afforestation Tim Van Horlick is seeking opportunities to establish research within Europe / Asia and further work in a Tropical Climate. This machine, the "VH Mulcher" has been sold widely over the last ten years with good research established in Canada, USA, and Australia / New Zealand. Tim is hoping to find co-operators to share the financial burden whom are having soils or plantation establishment difficulties whom would benefit from increased seedling survival and growth. All suggestions are welcome. Reference web site Http://www.vhmulcher.com. You may contact Tim at tim@vhmulcher.com

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• Lassanyi, Mary. 2000. Agribusiness, Food Industry and Forest Industry Associations on the Internet http://agniclib.east.asu.edu/atmic_agriassn.htm
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• Liew, S.C. 2001. Boosting Oil Palm Production. Imaging Notes 16(1):19-20. www.imagingnotes.com.
• MacDonald, L. H. 1982. Agro-forestry in the African Humid Tropics. Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Ibadan, Nigeria, 27 April - 1 May 1981. The United Nations University, NRTS-17/UNUP-364.ISBN 92-808-0364-6. http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80364e/80364E00.htm#Contents
• Nowak, David J. et al. 2001. Assessing the US Urban Forest Resource. Journal of Forestry 99(3):37-42.
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• Seaby, D. 2001. Designs for one-man, two-stage, samplers for obtaining undisturbed cores of peat over 1 m long. Forestry 74(1):79-83. http://www3.oup.co.uk/foresj/current/740079.sgm.abs.html
• Shimatani, Kenichiro. 2001. Multivariate point processes and spatial variation of species diversity. Forest Ecology and Management 142(1-3):215-229. http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/foreco
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16 March 2001. Forestry Survey Seminar. Colville, Washington, USA. Contact: Peter Griessman, Tel: +1-509-684-2588. Fax: +1-509-684-9790. Email: pgriessm@wsu.edu.

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.

20 March 2001. Hazard tree evaluation and storm damage assessment. Columbus, Georgia, USA. Contact: Elon Flack. Tel: + 1-912-739-4709. Fax: +1-912-685-2850. Email: eflack@pineland.net

22 March 2001. Approved wood measurement training. Orono, Maine, USA. Contact: T.J. Dragon. Tel: +1-207-581-2896. Fax: +1-207-581-4976. URL: http://www.forest.resources.umaine.edu/opd/.

27 March 2001. Growth and yield modeling. Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. Contact. Ricky Kilpatrick, tel: +1-318-965-2326. Email: rkilpatrick@agctr.lsu.edu.

7-10 May 2001. Nursery Production And Stand Establishment Of Broad-Leaves To Promote Sustainable Forest Management. Rome, Italy. Contact: Meeting Organising Secretariat, ANPA, Italian Environmental Protection Agency, International Relations Office, 00144 Roma, Italy. Tel. +39 06 50072391; Fax +39 06 50072834. E-mail: notargiacomo@anpa.it

10-13 July 2001. Challenges of a Changing Earth. Global Change Open Science Conference. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Call for papers open until 31 March 2001. Contact: Open Science Conference Secretariat, Congrex Holland BV, PO Box 302, 1000 AH Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: +31-20-5040208. Fax: +31-20-5040225. Email: igbp@congrex.nl. URL: www.sciconf.igbp.kva.se.

September 2001 (dates, TBA). 49TH Annual Meeting of the Western International Forest Disease Work Conference. Monterray area, California, USA. Contact: Susan Frankel, USDA Forest Service, 1323 Club Drive, Vallejo, CA 94592 USA. Fax: +1-707-562-9054; Email: sfrankel/r5@fs.fed.us

September 2001(dates TBA). Forest Recreation, Landscape and Nature Conservation (IUFRO), Southeastern USA (TBA). Contact: John Burde, School of Forestry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901 USA Fax: +1-618-453-7475; Email: jburde@siu.edu.

5-7 September 2001. 82nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Woodlands Forum. Quebec City, QC, Canada. Contact: Guillaume Gignac, Executive Director, Canadian Woodlands Forum. Tel: +1-514-392-6946; Email: ggignac@cwfcof.org; URL: www.cwfcof.org

5-7 September 2001. 5th International Conference on The Development of Wood Science, Wood Technology, and Forestry. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Contact: Mike Render, Queen Alexandra Rd., High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, HP11 2JZ; Email: mrende01@bcuc.ac.uk

5-8 September 2001. National Urban Forest Conference. Washington, DC. Contact: Cheryl Kollin - ckollin@amfor.org. URL: http://www.americanforests.org

9-14 September 2001. 5th International Flora Malesiana Symposium. Sydney, Australia. Contact: Dr. Barry Conn, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Mrs. Macquaries Road, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia. Email: fmv@rbgsyd.gov.au; URL: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au/fm/fm.html

9-14 September 2001. Wetland Delineation with Emphasis on Soils & Hydrology. Kalispell, Montana, USA. (6 days, $1100) Contact: Wetland Training Institute, PO Box 31, Glenwood, NM 88039 USA. getinfo@wetlandtraining.com, URL: http://www.wetlandtraining.com

9-14 September 2001. Thinnings: A Valuable Forest Management Tool; an international conference. Québec City, Québec, Canada. Contact: URL: www.feric.ca

11-14 September 2001. ION GPS 2001. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Contact: Institute of Navigation, 1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 480, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA. Fax: +1-703-683-7105; Email: meetings@ion.org; URL: http://www.ion.org

11-14 September 2001. Plant Identification. Hastings, Michigan, USA. (4 days, $675) Contact: Wetland Training Institute, PO Box 31, Glenwood, NM 88039 USA. getinfo@wetlandtraining.com, URL: http://www.wetlandtraining.com

11 September - 22 October 2001. Social Forestry for Sustainable Rural Development (SOCFOR). Training course. Los Baños, Philippines. (6 weeks) US $3,600. Especially designed for mid- and top-level forest managers to enhance their knowledge and skills in integrating their experience with social science and biophysical theories and concepts within the framework of sustainable forest and rural development. The course is specifically developed to enable the participants to articulate recent concepts, issues and strategies in sustainable forest and rural development; to evaluate the applicability of new people-oriented approaches in forest resource management to their own work situation; and to design, manage, monitor and evaluate forest community development program/project through the active participation of the different stakeholders. 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

12-14 September 2001. Dynamics of forest insect populations. Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. Contact: Dr. Andrew Liebhold, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, 180 Canfield St., Morgantown, WV 26505 USA. Fax: +1-304-285-1505; Email: sandy@gypsy.fsl.wvnet.edu

17-21 September 2001. 5th International Biomass Conference of the Americas. Orlando, Florida, USA. For details see www.nreal.gov/bioam or contact joann@fsec.ucf.edu.

4- 6 December 2001. IUFRO Conference. Collecting and analyzing information for sustainable forest management and biodiversity monitoring with special reference to Mediterranean ecosystems. Palermo, Sicily (Italy). All persons interested to participate to the conference are kindly requested to contact the secretariat or subscribe on-line indicating the eventual tentative title of his/her oral/poster presentation. Secretariat: Dr. Giuseppe Garfì, Dipartimento di Colture Arboree, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Phone +39-091-423398/484482, Fax +39-091-6521098, E-mail: agrofor@unipa.it, URL: http://www.geolab.unifi.it/iufro_conference/

18-23 February 2002. Second international workshop on participatory forestry in Africa. Arusha, Tanzania. Contact: Mr. Dominique Reeb, FAO, Community Forestry Unit, Policy and Planning Division (FONP), Forestry Department, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. Tel: +39-06-570 564 32; Fax: +39-06-570 555 14. E-mail: Arusha-2002@fao.org

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