Contributions for this week's FIU come from Pat Mallet, Peter Rauch, Mike Smith, Jeff Stone, Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki, and the ever-faithful Scott Miller and Gary Waggoner. Thanks for sharing folks!
NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF FORESTRY - Mike Smith is currently putting together the August edition of the New Zealand Journal of Forestry. If you have any forthcoming events you wish to include, please send them in soonest. You may check out the Journal web page at: http://www.southernhemisphereforestry.co.nz/nzjof.htm or contact Mike Smith at <southem@wave.co.nz>
REPORT ON THE IUFRO CONFERENCE ON REMOTE SENSING AND FOREST MONITORING, 1-3 June 1999, Rogow, Poland. The Conference was organized under auspices of the Polish Minister of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry. The objectives were to:
A total of 130 people from 19 countries (America, Asia, Australia, Europe) participated in the Conference. Participants had occasion to participate in some social events as concert of forest and hunter horn signals, visit to university forest: arboretum and alpinarium, to local church (traditional country style Corpus Christi service), forest meal. In September papers and conclusions will be available at: http://giswitch.sggw.waw.pl/rogow99. The proceedings will be printed by Joint Research Centre in Ispra this year.
SNAG INVENTORY - We need to sample for rare items (snags) in the Northeastern U.S. Does anyone have any published or unpublished advice that will help us do the job efficiently? If so, please contact - Jean O'Neil (Email: oneill@wes.army.mil. Tel: +1-601-634-3641) directly.
LOGGING WASTE - Alfredo Unda would appreciate if you can tell him where to look for information on silviculture wastes or residues management. Contact Alfredo INFOR, Santiago, Chile. Tel: +562-693-0841; Fax: +562-693-0798. Email: aunda@infor.cl.
TREES, WATER AND PEOPLE - Want to help communities in Central America establish sustainable forests and watersheds? For more information see http:www.treeswaterpeople.org or contact twp@treeswaterpeople.org.
Blair, Bryan J.; Rabine, David L.; Hofton, Michelle A. 1999.The Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor: a medium-altitude, digitisation-only, airborne laser altimeter for mapping vegetation and topography, ISPRS J. Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 54(2-3):115-122. See abstract at: http://ww1.elsevier.nl/cgi-bin/cas/tree/store/photo/cas_sub/browse/browse.cgi?year=1999&volume=54&issue=2-3&aid=1127
Burk, T.E.; Ek, Alan R. 1999. Approximation, evaluation, and extension of the Lake States Composite Taper and Volume Tables. North. J. Appl. For. 16(2):65-71.
Carey, A.B. et al. 1999. Reverse technology transfer: obtaining feedback from managers. West. J. Appl. For. 14(3):153-163.
Ducey, M.J.; Larson, B.C. 1999. Rapid assessment of risk using stand density indicies. West. J. Appl. For. 14(3):149-152.
Grieve, M. 1931. A Modern Herbal. The hyper-text version may be found at http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/mgmh.html Contains Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs. Interesting site for non-wood forest resources.
Johnson, Steven; Castaño, Jairo. 1999. Improving statistical capacity and reporting. ITTO Tropical Forest Update 9(2):18-22.
Siyag, P.R. 1999. The afforestation manual: technology and management. ISBN 81-901032-0-2. 632 p. Price $55 USD plus postage. Contact: Customer Services Department, TreeCraft Comunications, 8A Kailashnagar, Jhotwara, Jaipur 302-012 India. Fax: +91-747-32070.
Wear, David N.; Liu, Rei; Foreman, J. Michael; Sheffield, Raymond M. 1999. The effects of population growth on timber management and inventories in Virginia. Forest Ecology and Management. 118: 107-115. See: http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/pubs/rpc/99jun/rpc_99jun_46.pdf
Winograd, Manuel R.; Fernandez, Norberto; Farrow, Andrew. 1998. Herramientas para la toma de deciones en America Latina y el Caribe: indicadores ambientales y sistemas de informacion geografica. Tools for making decisions in Latin America and the Caribbean: environmental indicators and geographical information systems. UNDEP/DEIA/TR.98-3. 63 p. Contact: UNEP, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Boulevard de los Virreyes 155 Lomas de Virreyes, CP 11000 Mexico, D.F. Mexico. Email: rolac@rolac.unep.mx. URL: http://www.rolac.unep.mx.
Falls Brook Centre organized a workshop in late June in Oaxaca, Mexico on the Certification and Marketing of NTFPs and Agroforestry Products. The summary report of this workshop is now available by email in Rich Text Format (RTF). Please contact Patrick Mallet pmallet@web.net if you would like to receive the document. If you can only receive in a format other than RTF, please specify.
19 August 1999. Minimum Impact Low Volume Road Design and Construction: with application to Hurricane Mitch reconstruction. Washington, DC. Forest Service International Programs Brown Bag Seminar. Speaker: Gordon Keller, Geotechnical Engineer, USDA Forest Service Plumas National Forest, CA. Time:12:00-13:00. USAID Global Environmental Center, 14th St & Pennsylvania Ave. Ronald Reagan Building Room 4.8 E&F, Washington, DC. Contact: Mike Benge (Tel: +1-202-712-4048) or Heather Huppe (Tel: +1-202-712-5624).
30-31 August 1999. Developing your timber buying skills. Raliegh, North Carolina, USA. Registration fee: $365 USD. Contact: PRECEDA Education and Training, P.O. Box 410, Auburn, AL 36831-0410 USA. Tel: +1-334-821-9222. URL: http://www.preceda.com
31 August - 2 September 1999. Bottomland hardwood silviculture and management. Ahoskie, North Carolina, USA. Contact: Jennifer Barnes, NCSU Forestry Education Outreach Program, Box 8003, Raleigh, NC 27695-8003 USA. Tel: +1-919-515-3184. Fax: +1-919-515-6883. URL. http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/forest/feop/
20-23 September 1999. Food and forestry: global change and global challenges. Reading, UK. Contact: John Ingram, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, GCTE Focus 3 Office, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 3BB, UK. Fax: +44-1491-692313. Email: j.ingram@ioh.ac.uk.
22-25 September 1999. Landscape futures. Armidale, Australia. Contact: Dr. David Brunckhorst, UNESCO Institute for Bioregional Resource Management, University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351, Australia. Fax: +61-2-6773-2769. Email: dbrunckh@metz.une.edu.au.
4-9 October 1999. Congreso de Ordenación y Gestión Sostenible de Montes. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (reminder). See website at http://www.tragsatec.es/internew/internet/congreso/congreso.htm or Email: congreso_ordenacion@tragsatec.es.
1-26 November 1999. Environmental assessment for a changing planet. Canberra, Australia. Cost. AUD 8,800. Contact: Jenny Clement, Training Manager, ANUTECH Development International, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. Fax: +61-26249-5875. Email: jenny.clement@anutech.com.au
2-4 November 1999. Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests Conference. Reno, Nevada USA. Contact: William Hull, whull@cgbd.org, Tel: +1-510-465-4962. Symposium information at http://www.tws-west.org
5-7 April 2000. Risk 2000. Space techniques for the management of major risks and their consequences. Paris, France. Call for papers open until 1 October 1999. Contact: Risk 2000 Secretariat, Prospective 2100, 48, rue de la Procession, 75724 Paris CEDEX 15 France. Tel: +33-1-44-49-6004. Fax: +33-1-44-46-6044. Email: deschamps@2100.org.
A listserver has been recently established by the International Network on Ethnoforestry. INEF is a peer group of concerned foresters, scientists, international agencies, and NGOs working for documentation, dissemination and integration of indigenous knowledge on forest management with formal forestry, in various cultures and indigenous peoples across the globe. You may view archived postings at http://www.egroups.com/group/inef/. If you have questions, please contact the moderator of this group, Prof. Deep Narayan Pandey at dnpandey@bom6.vsnl.net.in or inef@egroups.com
Team of Scientists to Prepare a Rolodex of Life on Earth - see http://www.biodiv.org/chm/NYTimes/NYTimes270999.htm
The following [URL of a] huge listing of links is now available from the Biodiversity Action Network: WEB SITES RELATED TO BIODIVERSITY POLICY AND LAW - URL: http://www.bionet-us.org/website.html
As always, please share as appropriate and if you have some meetings to announce, new publications or favorite links, please send them to me for the next FIU. Thanks, Gyde
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