Mark Jackson draws your attention to the recently published Greenhouse Challenge Vegetation Sinks Workbook, published through the Australian Greenhouse Office. A Summary of the workbook is on the AGO website under publications. The full workbook kit can be ordered using a downloadable faxback order form.
Announcing a new forestry journal - Forest Policy and Economics. Forest Policy and Economics is a new international journal dealing with policy issues, including economics and planning, relating to the forest and forest industries sector. Its aims are both to publish original papers of a high scientific standard, and to enhance communications amongst researchers, legislators, decision-makers and other professionals concerned with formulating and implementing policies for the sector. The Editor-in-Chief encourages the submission of original, comparative and/or global studies or other original studies of high international scientific relevance which are based on political or economic theory and use sound methodology of empirically based research. The papers should be written in a style that is understandable to policymakers and specialists from other disciplines. Acceptance for publication is subject to a refereeing process. 1999 Volume 1 (4 issues). Subscription price: NLG 480.00 (euro 217.81) / US$ 244.00 ISSN: 1389-9341. Internet address: For further information about the journal please visit the journals homepage or contact: Prof. Dr Max Krott, Institut fr Forstpolitik und Naturschutz, Georg-August-Universitt G÷ttingen, Bskenweg 5, D-37077 G÷ttingen, Germany. Tel: +49 551 39 34 12 Fax: +49 551 39 34 15 E-mail: mkrott@gwdg.de
Amandine DUFFOUR is looking for information on all projects of climate change mitigation by forestry (reforestation, plantation forestry, forest protection, forest conservation, forest rehabilitation, reduced impact logging, ...) particulary in tropical forest. She would like to know, for each project: - date initiated, - life of project (years), - forest type, - parties involved, - area, - carbon offset, - criterias & indicators used, - carbon credit, - and more. If you have information in French, that would also be especially helpful. Please contact Amandine directly at: University Val de Bivres, appt. C058, 80, rue Gabriel PÚri, 91430 IGNY, FRANCE. Phone: +336 87 30 83 65. Email: aduffour@yahoo.fr
Burgess, D.; Robinson, C. 1998. Canada's oldest permanent sample plots: thinning in white and red pine. For. Chron. 74(4):606-616.
Darche, M.-H.; Forgues, I. 1998. Modes of GPS positioning: introduction and applications in forestry. Tech. Note TN-277. 12 p. FERIC, 580 Boul., Saint-Jean, Pointe Claire, Quebec H9R 9Z9 Canada.
Fuller, J. 1998. Participatory Monitoring of Forest Resources: Current Methodologies Being Developed in Thailand, in Network Paper 23e. Rural Development Forestry Network. Overseas Development Institute. London. See Web Site
Green, Kass. 1999. Technology update: 3D landscape visualization. Journal of Forestry 97(5):Focus 5.
Landry, R. et al. 1997. Tree vectorization: a method to describe tree architecture. Can. J. Remote Sens. 23:91-107.
MacLean, D.A. et al. 1998. Forester's yield curve designer software. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 15:23-27.
Magnussen, S.; Boudewyn, P. 1998. Derivations of stand heights from airborne laser scanner data with canopy-based quantile estimators. Canadian Journal Forestry Research 28: 1016-1031.
Mather, R., de Boer, M., Gurung, M. and N. Roche. 1998. Aerial Photographs and 'Photo-maps' for Community Forestry, in Network Paper 23e. Rural Development Forestry Network. Overseas Development Institute. London. See: Web Site
Mayaux P., Achard F.and J.P. Malingreau, 1998, Global tropical forest area measurements derived from coarse resolution maps at a global level: a comparison with other approaches, Environmental Conservation 25(1):37-52.
Olsen, E.D.; Hossain, M.M.; Miller, M.E. 1998. Statistical comparison methods used in harvesting work studies. Res. Contrib. 23. 41 p. Oregon State Univ., Forest Research Lab 227, Corvallis, OR 97331-9877 USA.
Page-Dumroese, Deborah S. 1999. Best method for determining soil bulk density. Journal of Forestry 97(5):Focus 7.
Pitt, D.G. et al. 1997. Use of remote sensing for forest vegetation management: a problem analysis. For. Chron. 73:459-477.
Raulier, F. et al. 1998. Analytical estimation of branchwood volume in sugar maple, linked to branchiness. Trees 12:395-405.
Roloff, G.J.; Carroll, B.; Scharosch, S. 1999. A decision support system for incorporating wildlife habitat quality into forest planning. Western Journal of Applied Forestry 14(2):9199. See abstract
Sanchez-Azofeifa, G. A., C. Quesada-Mateo, P. Gonzalez-Quesda, S. Dayanandan, and K. S. Bawa. 1999. Protected areas and conservation of biodiversity in the tropics. Conservation Biology 13:407-411. Reports on change in forest cover 1976 to 1995 in Sarapiqui region, Costa Rica.
Wulder, M,; Boots, B. 1998. Local spatial autocorrelation characteristics of remotely sensed imagery assessed with the Getis statistic. Int. J. Remote Sensing 19(110):2223-2231.
1-4 June 1999. The Internet and GIS: Exploring New Mapping Opportunities. TUGIS '99. 12th Annual GIS Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Contact: Center for Geographic Information Sciences, Towson University, 8000 York Road, Towson, MD 21252-0001 USA. Tel: +1-410-830-3887. Fax: +1-410-830-3888. Email: amatuska@towson.edu. URL: Web Site
24-27 October 1999. Technology in the Wildlife Profession: Research, Application, and Education, a symposium sponsored by the GIS, Remote Sensing, and Telemetry Working Group of The Wildlife Society. This symposium will take place during the 4th Microcomputer applications in Fish and Wildlife Conference in Stateline, Nevada (Lake Tahoe Area) USA. Conference information can be obtained at Web Site. Contact: Scott Klopfer, Fish and Wildlife Information Exchange, 203 West Roanoke St., Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA. Email: sklopfer@vt.edu. Tel: +1-540 231-7348.
27-31 March 2000. Information for Sustainable Development - Cape Town 2000. 3rd Symposium of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment and 28th International Symposium on Remote Sensing and the Envrionrment. Cape Town, South Africa. Call for papers now open. See URL Web Site or contact the 28th ISRSE Technical Committee, PO Box 452, Stellenbosch, 7599, South africa. Fax: +27-21-883-8177. Telephone: +27-21-886-4496 - ask for Deidre' Cloete. Email: isrse@mikom.csir.co.za.
10-15 September 2000. (final dates not yet established) PROBLEMS OF
RATIONAL UTILIZATION AND REPRODUCTION OF BERRY PLANTS IN BOREAL FORESTS ON THE EVE OF THE XXI CENTURY. Belarussia. Conference fee 200 $ USA (includes accomodation(motel), meals, proceedings, excursions). For information contact dvornik@Fi.Gomel.by or tpaal@eau.ee
The French National Forest Inventory - - An excellent site and way to make inventory information available to the public.
For information on forest industry check out: Web Site
Eastern Old-growth Clearing House -
For those of you interested in remote sensing, you may wish to check out EnsoMOSAIC - an aerial digital imaging and image processing system described at Web Site
Ecological Risks of Transgenic Crops in a Global Market Glossary
Glossary of nomenclatural terms in zoology
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