• COFORD (Council for Forest Research and Development), Ireland. COFORD work to establish and strengthen links between research and industry to maintain international competitiveness, encourage innovation and enhance environmental harmony. We are interested in developing research and development partnerships with other institutions focusing mainly on information exchange, technology transfer and intellectual property brokerage. Download our publications and review our research programme by visiting http://www.coford.ie or contact us at info@coford.ie

• ESRI - As the leader in GIS technology, ESRI offers innovative solutions that will help you create, visualize, analyze, and present natural resources information better and more clearly. Working with location information, ESRI's GIS software and solutions give you the power to solve problems you encounter every day. Forestry and other natural resource organizations around the world are using this ESRI software to make smart and timely decisions. ESRI provides powerful GIS solutions to more than 300,000 clients in more than 189 countries and offers mapping technology to meet today's global needs. Using ESRI technology, you too can unlock the spatial component of your valuable data and see your organization's information from a new perspective. For more information, visit the ESRI site at www.esri.com/forestry or contact them at info@esri.com.

• MEDIAMAPPER - from Red Hen Systems, Inc. The multimedia desktop mapping solution. Take pictures and generate GIS map layers. The images are linked to the map. Click a location to view what's there. Export interactive map layers to ArcView, MapInfo, or HTML. A forestry demo exported from MediaMapper to HTML is available at www.mediamapper.com. Ask us about multispectral mapping! Current MediaMapper users include the USDA Forest Service, many weed control districts, and environmental consulting firms. To find out more, call  +1-800-237-4182, or e-mail info@redhensystems.com. See our home page at www.redhensystems.com.

• Allan Felipe Fonseca - College Student - Federal do Paraná University, Brazil. http://www.ufpr.br/
• Jan Troensegaard - Team Leader, TCP/VIE/0066 - FAO/FIPI, Technical Support to the 5MHRP, Thanh Tri – Hanoi
• K.RE.Ramesh - Forestry Research Scholar submitting Ph.d thesis in Nov-2001. After would like to do post doctorate in forestry related field i.e. wildlife, tree genetics, silviculture, marine life etc. Seeking full time postdoctoral research in any country if fellowship is available to pursue the same. tgri@yspuhf.hp.nic.in
• Manish Mishra - Research Officer, Ecosystem Management and Technical Forestry Branch, Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) http://www.iifm.org/
• Md. Mustafizur Rahman - Department of Crop Botany, Bangladesh Agricultural University. http://agri-varsity.tripod.com/
• Parag Dubey - Faculty of Marketing Management, Indian Institute of Forest Management. http://www.iifm.org/
• Paul van Gardingen – Lecturer, Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, The University of Edinburgh. http://www.symfor.org
• Robert D. Speaker
• Roger Ware
• Rupesh Shrestha - Kathmandu, Nepal

SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting- From the Forest Net list - SARA is a special email service
designed to deliver tables of contents, for any Taylor & Francis, Carfax, Routledge, Spon Press, Martin Dunitz or Psychology Press journal, to anyone who has requested the information. This service is completely free of charge. All you need to do is register, and you will be sent contents pages of the journal(s) of your choice from that point onwards, in advance of the printed edition. You can request contents pages either for any number of individual titles, or for one or more of our sub-categories or a main category, and you may unsubscribe at any time. For each of your choices, you will receive the relevant bibliographic information: journal title, volume/issue number and the ISSN. You will also receive full contents details, names of authors and the appropriate page numbers from the printed version. Titles that may be of interest are: Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research and Society & Natural Resources. To register for this complimentary service, please visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/sara and click on the SARA button. For further information on the above titles, please visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals

SPINY RAT MORE DANGEROUS TO MAHOGANY THAN PIRATICAL LOGGERS - >From Duncan Macqueen - It is commonly believed that mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) grows throughout Amazonia and that its continued existence is threatened seriously by almost uncontrolled illegal logging. Certainly, piratical loggers take more and smaller trees than the law allows, and thus reduce the number of seed-bearing mature trees. However, on the limited range of sites where mahogany thrives naturally, which have been well characterized by the recent research, a serious threat comes from a spiny rat. The rat hoards or eats more than 70 per cent of the seed crop which falls to the ground, thus decreasing the potential number of seedlings. Seeds which escape the attention of the rats can germinate into seedlings which have high survival rates. It seems probable that the seedlings can grow rapidly when exposed to pulses of light, like a gap in the forest canopy created by a wind storm, but are otherwise able to sulk in the understorey for several years. A solution, possibly practicable and financially bearable in easily accessible locations, may be to collect the seed when it falls early in the dry season, store the seed during the dry season, and sow it directly into the topsoil at the beginning of the wet season. This was also recommendedpreviously in Belize and Yucatan although for a different reason. The research has not been able to deny or confirm that Brazilian mahogany is in danger of commercial extinction. For more information please contact Dr Nick Brown - nick.brown@plant-sciences.oxford.ac.uk

GPS CONSTELLATION UPDATE - 18 May 2001 – via Rich Calnan, USGS - The GPS Constellation Sustainment and Assessment Team (CSAT) met on 10 May in Los Angeles. During the meeting, the CSAT cancelled the planned launch of SVN-45 (IIR-8) on 16 August 2001. The CSAT determined that the constellation health did not dictate an August launch. The CSAT is investigating moving the launch schedule for March 2002 into November 2001 if the need arises. Reducing the number of IIR launches now improves the chances of modifying more of the IIR satellites to include a second civil signal on L2 and M-Code on L1 and L2. A GPS IIR satellite is kept at Cape Canaveral at all times to support an emergency launch. An emergency launch is theoretically possible within 60-days of call-up. Of the 28 operational satellites, those that have exhibited performance problems have been positioned to minimize the impact of a failure. An emergency launch could also be requested in the event of an unexpected failure of a GPS satellite in a critical slot.

FOREST WINDOW - Yoshihiro Nobori writes "Recently, we introduced "Forest Window" (FW) and have had many questions. Forest Window is a 3D forest view simulator, which runs on MS-Windows. The figure of the forest can be observed from the sky. FW can be used for analyzing forest structures, landscape and gardening simulations. We provide FW by a book included a CD-ROM, which "Japan Society of Forest Planning Press" has published in December 2000 (ISBM4-915870-20-0). The book shows methodology, using manual and some applications in English text. The CD-R contains FW software and some forest data. Detailed information may be found at http://tdtt1.tr.yamagata-u.ac.jp/Ynobori/index.htm or by contacting FW Publishing Group, Director, Author: Professor Dr. Yoshihiro Nobori, Office: Department of Bio-Environment Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamagata University, 1-23 Tsuruoka, Yamagata, 997-8555 Japan. E-Mail: ynobori@tds1.tr.yamagata-u.ac.jp. Fax: 235-28-2950. Voice: 235-28-2946."

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE - Note: If you can help with any of the requests below, please take the time to do so. Do not assume others will respond - they are assuming the same. Your kind assistance will be appreciated and rewarded. Thanks, Gyde

• DEVELOPING TOOLS FOR TIMBER YIELD REGULATION FOR TROPICAL FORESTS - Methods for regulating the yield of timber from tropical forests are the subject of research for two projects funded by the Forestry Research Programme of the United Kingdom Department for International Development. One project (R6915) has developed a tool (SYMFOR) for Indonesia that uses permanent sample plot data to evaluate management options for the management of lowland Dipterocarp forests (http://www.symfor.org).This work is now being extended to Latin America with applications in Guyana and Brazil.  A second project (R7278) has been developing tools to work in areas with minimal data (http://www.myrlin.org).  The Forestry Research Programme is now assessing demand for this work to be extended in a proposed new cluster of research projects to develop tools supporting management and policy decisions relating to the yield from tropical forests.  The new work represents very significant shifts from previous activities. The work intends to develop tools supporting initiatives in community or joint forest management. It will also consider financial and economic methods to balance the yield of timber against other important goods and services provided from forests. All of this work will be used to consider the extremely important role that forests must play in reducing the poverty of the poor living in or near forests and dependant on forests for their livelihoods. The University of Edinburgh is leading a team assessing the need for this new work. The project "Multiple Objective Forest Management" (MOFORM, http://www.moform.org)  is looking for partners for both the development and application of the tools resulting from the work. The next stage of the project will host a workshop in the UK to assess demand for these tools. We would like to hear from individuals and organisations in countries who can help this process. 1.Document the need for improved methods of yield regulation. 2 Document existing approaches for timber yield regulation. 3.Link this work to develop news tools and approaches to in-country initiatives in community and joint forest management. 4 Assess the needs for improved financial, economic tools supporting policy development and forest management relating to timber yield regulation. The project intends to hold a planning meeting during June or July 2001 and will invite participants from a number of potential partner countries. Other groups will be invited to participate through an email and web-based process. We would welcome hearing from people who would be able to contribute to this process. Contact: Dr Paul van Gardingen, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. p.vangardingen@ed.ac.uk, Tel:+44 131 535 4066; Fax:+44 131 667 2601

• TRAINING MATERIALS SOUGHT - Medini Bhandari writes "The Association for Protection and Environment Culture (APEC) has been working in Nepal since 1988 (see http://www.apecngo.org). We have been conducting various programs i.e. environment education program, awareness campaign for conservation of Nature and Natural resources, protection of endangered species (wild animals), community development program and programs on sustainable development through people participation and cultural conservation through people participation . In this regard we are looking for advance studies for our volunteers (M.Sc. or PhD.D. level), training opportunity for mid carrier people and also looking scholarships and funding for action project as well as for research project. We are also looking materials related to environment, wildlife management or sustainable development. Books, journals, reports and other relevant hard copy material will be very helpful to us which alternately go to many hands through mobile exhibition. Lastly, we are working for wetland conservation awareness. It would be highly appreciated if you could send us articles or any information on wetlands for educational purpose. We are planning to organise an awareness training on wetlands for school teachers and students." Contact: Medini Bhandari, Chairman, Postal address: APEC-Nepal, GPO Box 12822, Kathmandu, Nepal. Tel 977 1 277 969. medini@enet.com.np

• YIELD CURVES FOR FAST GROWING CROPS - From the GAOF list - Paul Speed writes, " I am looking for some yield curve functions that would help me to describe some very fast growing stands of tropical plantation species. They would need to describe stands that are maximising volume yield by age 8-10 years and go through the peak acceleration in growth at around 2-3 years. I have tried Chang's (Chang SJ 1984) curves and simple Schumacher curves - but both fail to adequately describe what the PSP and TIP data shows." You may contact Paul at paul.speed@poyry.co.nz.

• LECTURERSHIP IN FOREST BIOLOGY - Oxford Forestry Institute. Applications are tenable from 1 October 2001 or as soon as possible thereafter. The university salary will be on the age-related scale for University Lecturers without Tutorial Fellowships of £18,731- £36,740 per annum (under review). The successful candidate will be offered a Fellowship at Green College. The appointee will be a member of the Oxford Forestry Institute within the Department of Plant Sciences. Candidates must have a proven record of research excellence in any aspect of Forest Biology. Preference will be given to candidates who are able to teach one or more of the following topics: Forest Resource Assessment (inventory and mensuration); or Forest Policy. The ability to win and manage research projects and the ability to provide graduate supervision are necessary conditions for an appointment to be made. Further particulars are available from http://www.plants.ox.ac.uk or from Professor C.J. Leaver FRS, Department of Plant Sciences, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK to whom applications (eight copies except from candidates overseas who need send only one), including a curriculum vitae, a list of principal publications and the names and contact details of three referees, should be sent, for receipt not later than 18 June 2001. There is no application form and separate application is not required for the college post.

• NORTH AMERICAN JOB SOUGHT - From the GAOF list - Naum Saveski writes, ".I am forest engineer from Macedonia and I am intersting about job in forestry in North America or Europe. I will be very gratefull if you kindly

help me." You may contact Naum at nesavo@hotmail.com.

• Aguirre-Bravo, Celedonio; Franco, Carlos Rodriguez compilers. 1999. North American Science Symposium: Toward a Unified Framework for Inventorying and Monitoring Forest Ecosystem Resources. December 1999. Guadalajara, Mexico (November 2-6, 1998). Proceedings RMRS-P-12. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO USA. 533 pages. Free. To order single or multiple copies contact rschneider@fs.fed.us
• Alibrandi, Marsha. 1998. GIS as a Tool in Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies: Student, Teacher, and Community Perspectives. http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/jun98/feat2-3/feat2-3.html
• Alonso, Alfonso, et al. eds. 2001. Biodiversity - Connecting with the tapestry of life. 30 p. Smithsonian Instiution,/Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity, 1100 Jefferson Drive, Suite 3123, Washington, DC 20560-0705. simab@ic.si.edu.
• Baker, Nell 2000. Proceedings of a two-day workshop to consider archival policy and practice for historic and current tropical forest inventory data. 30-31 March 2000. University of Reading. http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ssc/atrofi/workproc.htm#intro
• Bennun, Leon; Fanshawe, John. 1997? Using forest birds to evaluate forest management: an East African perspective. Earth Watch Institute http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/limbe/forestmgmt.html
• Eastern Ontario Model Forest. 1997. A True Picture, Taking Inventory of your Woodlot. (Cette publication est également disponible en français) PDF download available at: http://www.eomf.on.ca/services/catalogdescriptions.html#37
• Helms, Amy C.; Johnson, James E. 1996. A Handbook for Forest Vegetation Management in Recreation and Historic Parks . Virginia Tech College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources. Publication Number 420-143. http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/forestry/420-143/420-143.html
• Ji, Wei; Johnston, James. 1994. A GIS-based decision support system for wetland permit analysis. GIS/LIS:471-476, http://spatialodyssey.ursus.maine.edu/gisweb/spatdb/gis-lis/gi94059.html
• Keller, M. et al. 2001. Investigating the carbon cycle of the Amazon forests. Global Change News Letter 45:15-19. www.igbp.kva.se.
• Moran, E.; Krug, T. 2001. Predicting location and magnitude of land use and land change. Global Change News Letter 45:4-8.. www.igbp.kva.se.
• Nobre, C.A. et al. 2001. The large scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in Amazonia (LBA). Global Change News Letter 45:2-4. www.igbp.kva.se.
• Ranson, K.J.; Wickland, D.J. 2001. EOS Terra: first data and mission status. Global Change News Letter 45: 23-31. www.igbp.kva.se.
• Simons, Ted et al. 1999. The effects of landscape pattern, core areas, and forest management practices on avian communities in the Southern Appalachians - 1998 annual report to the U.S. Forest Service. North Carolina State University, Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/s/simons/www/98FSreport.htm
• Maclaren, J. Piers. 2001. Trees in the Greenhouse. Forest Research Bulletin No. 219, New Zealand Forest Research. Available in .PDF format: $90.00 or hardcopy: $95.00. Contact: publications@forestresearch.co.nz or see https://www.safeshop.co.nz/forestresearch/
• USAID. 1993. African Biodiversity: Foundation for the Future. Biodiversity Support Program Reference No.: 17 http://www.bsponline.org/publications/showhtml.php3?17

19-20 June 2001. Getting more from your cruises with statistics. Augusta, Georgia, USA. Contact: Arlene Bolton. Tel: +1-706-542-3063. Email: Arlene_Bolton@gactr.uga.edu. URL: www.georgiacenter.org/conferences/forestry.

19-20 June 2001. Statistics for forest inventory. Augusta, Georgia, USA. Contact: Arlene Bolton. Tel: +1-706-542-3063. Email: Arlene_Bolton@gactr.uga.edu. URL: www.georgiacenter.org/conferences/forestry.

21 June 2001. Using past cruises in present inventories. Georgia, USA. Contact: Arlene Bolton. Tel: +1-706-542-3063. Email: Arlene_Bolton@gactr.uga.edu. URL: www.georgiacenter.org/conferences/forestry.

21 June 2001. Using prior information in forest inventories. Georgia, USA. Contact: Arlene Bolton. Tel: +1-706-542-3063. Email: Arlene_Bolton@gactr.uga.edu. URL: www.georgiacenter.org/conferences/forestry.

21-22 June 2001. Introduction to ArcView GIS applications in natural resources. Corvallis, Oregon, USA. Contact: College of Forestry, Tel: +1-541-737-2329. Fax: +1-541-737-4966. URL: http://www.cof.orst.edu/cof/extended/confern/.

23-24 June 2001. Appalachian herb gathering: growing, conserving and using our native plants. Ohio, USA. Contact: Cynthia Brunty, Rural Action Forestry Program, Tel: +1-740-787-4938. Email: cynthiab@ruralaction.org.

25 June 2001. Overview of mapping and GIS technology. Athens, Georgia, USA. Contact: Arlene Bolton. Tel: +1-706-542-3063. Email: Arlene_Bolton@gactr.uga.edu. URL: www.georgiacenter.org/conferences/forestry

26 June 2001. Geospatial technologies for decisionmakers. Athens, Georgia, USA. Contact: Arlene Bolton. Tel: +1-706-542-3063. Email: Arlene_Bolton@gactr.uga.edu. URL: www.georgiacenter.org/conferences/forestry

2-4 July 2001. Trees and timber. Essex, England. Contact: Xavier Font. Email: X.Font@lmu.ac.uk.

16-20 July 2001. ASEM Symposium on Forest Conservation and Sustainable Development. Guiyang, Guizhou, China. URL: http://gzkw.gy.gz.cn/asem-fscd.

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

8-10 September 2001. 8th Annual Conference of the European Forest Institute. Bordeaux, France. Contact: Ms. Leena Roihuvuo, European Forest Institute; Fax: 358-13-124-393; Email: leena.roihuvuo@efi.fi

17-20 September 2001. 5th International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition. San Francisco, California, USA. Contact: Fax: +1-734-994-5234; Email: airborne@erim-int.com; URL:
www.erim-int.com/conf/iasrc.html

17-21 September 2001. 5th International Biomass Conference of the Americas. Orlando, Florida, USA. Contact: joann@fsec.ucf.edu; URL: www.nreal.gov/bioam

22 September-6 October 2001. Forest Roading Training Course. Gympie Training Centre, 160 km north of Brisbane in Australia. Contact: Maria Geppert at URS Forestry. Tel.+61-2-6248-6900, Fax: +61-2-6248-6999. Email: maria_geppert@urscorp.com

13-15 November 2001. Fourth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology. Reno, Nevada, USA. A call for papers is open until 1 June 2001. See http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS for instructions. For further program information contact Tim Brown, Desert Research Institute, 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, NV 89512-1095 USA. Tel: +1-775-674-7090; fax: +1-775-674-7016; Email: tbrown@dri.edu.

30 January - 2 February 2002. Monitoring and management of visitor flows in recreational and protected areas. International Conference. Vienna, Austria. Call for papers open until 31 July 01. Contact: Arne Arnberger, Institute for Landscape Architecture and Landscape Management. Tel: +43-1-47654/7205. Fax: +43-1-47654/7209. Email: arnberg@edvl.boku.ac.at. URL: http://ifl.boku.ac.at/conference.

25-26 February 2002. Working forests in the tropics: conservation through sustainable management. Gainesville, Florida, USA. Contact: Dr. Daniel J. Zarin, University of Florida, PO Box 110760, Gainesville, FL 32611-0760 USA. Tel: +1-352-846-1247. Fax: +1-352-846-1332. Email: zarin@ufl.edu. URL: www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/tropics/

29 September-3 October 2002. Forests Sustaining Communities/Communities Sustaining Forests - CIF/IFC Annual General Meeting and Conference. North Bay, Ontario, Canada. Contact: Fred Pinto: Email: fred.pinto@mnr.gov.on.ca URL: www.cif-ifc.org/algonquin/hamco.html

Forest Faunal Systems - http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/rhgiles/ForestFauna/contents.htm

Forest Products: Measurements and Values - http://www.utextension.utk.edu/pbfiles/PB1628.pdf

GIS Links - http://www.dragonbbs.com/members/1117/links.html

GIS Technical Tips - http://www.fws.gov/data/gistech.html

GIS-Related Mailing Lists - http://www.ctmap.com/gisnet/notebook/gis_list.htm

Measuring Trees and Estimating Volume - http://www1.uwex.edu/ces/pubs/pdf/G3332.PDF

Measuring Woodland Timber - http://agweb.okstate.edu/pearl/forestry/general/f-5021.pdf