Well, I am back after some three glorious weeks in Spain. Even though I "unsubscribed" from most mailing list, I found my email box full of over 300 messages - mostly unsolicited advertisements about getting rich quick, improving my sex life, growing hair, and losing weight. My question is how do these "merchants" know my needs so well???
This issue's contributions come from Steven Fancy, Bill Feidt, Howard Heiner, Margreet Hofstede, Mark Johnston, Scott Miller, Carl Thompson, Joyce Thompson and Barry Wyatt. Thanks for sharing folks!!
JAPAN SOCIETY OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY is publishing a journal named 'TROPICS'. TROPICS is open either to the results of original research, experimental or descriptive, or significant reviews of various aspects of tropical regions. Abstracts and back number service of the journal are available. See: http://biol01.sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp/jaste/
NEW CLIMATE CHANGE DATABASE The Pacific Institute has developed a searchable bibliography of peer-reviewed and gray literature related to climate change and its impacts on flora and fauna species (including the agricultural sector) and critical ecosystems. Over 1,370 citations have been included to date and the bibliography will be updated every two months. You are invited to use the database. Also, suggestions for additions to the bibliography, or corrections, should be sent to the bibliography's drafter, Wil Burns. If you wish to be informed of future updates to the Institute's web site, as well as its other activities, sign up for our announcement list at http://www.pacinst.org or contact, Wil Burns, Director of Communications, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, 654 13th St., Oakland, California 94612 USA.. Tel: +1-510-251-1600; Fax +1-510-251-2203. Email wburns@pacinst.org. For the database, go to http://www.pacinst.org/wildlife.html
SPAIN - My trip to Spain served three purposes - first to fulfill a long ago promise to my wife, secondly to gather photos of various arid land tree cover landscapes, and lastly to participate in the Congress on Sustainable Forest Management held in Santiago de Compostela. Spain was a very pleasant surprise - not at all what I pictured it. Very mountainous, beautiful landscapes, nice roadways, great food and wine and very kind and hospitable people. If you have not yet been to Spain, add to your list of places to visit.
At one time Spain had about 47 000 Sq. km of forestland. Today's forest cover estimates range between 8 million and 26 million ha. Much of the former forestland has been converted to olive, citrus and nut plantations. Question - from a Kyoto Protocol perspective if forestland is cleared and lands planted with citrus, nut or olive trees, is this deforestation and has an emission occurred? Similarly, if lands that are currently in pastures or grains are planted with citrus, nut or olive groves - is this afforestation or reforestation and has a sink occurred?
The Congreso de Ordenación y Gestión Sostenible de Montes - Gestionar para el Futuro was held 4-9 October 1999 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Sessions included present day tendencies in sustainable management, evaluation and monitoring of forestry resources, biodiversity of forestry ecosystems, planning of the production, environmental, recreational, landscape and cultural functions, the first-transformation industry, comprehensive value of forestry ecosystems, research and development, forestry ownerships, social dimension in sustainable management, legal and institutional framework, and international cooperation and transfer of technological resources. Over 350 people attend from at least 11 different countries. The audio-visual support and simultaneous translations were the best that I have experienced. Most of the papers were delivered in Spanish and a proceedings will soon become available. For more information, See website http://www.xunta.es/conselle/ma or Email: congreso_ordenacion@tragsatec.es. Meanwhile, if you are interested in a draft copy of the paper I presented, "Beyond the trees: Information requirements for sustaining forests" send me an email and ask for "Beyond" - Gyde.
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF SOCIETIES OF FORESTERS (IUSF). You are undoubtedly aware that international communication and cooperation among professional foresters has never been more important than it is now. Global issues, from forest certification to global warming, increasingly require solutions that cross international boundaries. If foresters and other natural resource managers, and their professional organizations, are to be adequately heard on these issues, we need to listen and talk to each other more effectively. Through e-mail and the IUSF listserver, we hope to engage you in a discussion on the future of IUSF. Information on IUSF’S purpose and history can be found at www.safnet.org/policy/iusf.htm and at http://www.foresters.org/fiu/IUSF.htm . If you would like to enter this conversation, please subscribe to iusf-saf@igc.org simply send an e-mail to majordomo@igc.org, leave the subject line blank, and write: subscribe iusf-saf in the body of the e-mail. When posting to the listserver after you have subscribed you will simply send e-mail to
GIS/REMOTE SENSING VACANCY - GIS/Remote Sensing Employment Opportunity: Compliance Services International (CSI), a regulatory and scientific consulting firm, has an immediate opening for an experienced GIS & Remote Sensing Specialist at its Tacoma, Washington office. Work would involve various GIS/RS applications in the agricultural and natural resource sectors. Details can be found on CSI's web-site at http://www.complianceservices.com or by contacting cthompson@complianceservices.com.
REMOTE SENSING VACANCY - Inventory Specialist for the National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring Program. Closing date for the announcement is November 2, 1999. This is a GS-408-13 Ecologist position open to all applicants. It is based in Fort Collins, Colorado. The full job announcement is available at http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/wfjic/jobs/DD1141.htm. The incumbent serves as the technical expert and authority for biological inventories, population estimation, and habitat assessments; serves as expert advisor on all technical aspects related to the design and execution of complex biological inventory and assessment investigations; provides authoritative input related to the inventory of vascular plants and vertebrate populations and habitats on agency lands; provides expert technical review of experimental designs and proposed protocols for vascular plant and vertebrate inventory projects and study plans; develops statistical criteria for biological resource inventories and provides expertise relative to the statistical design, development, and implementation of sound biological survey and census methodologies for terrestrial and aquatic species on NPS lands throughout the United States.
PLANNING OF MULTIPLE USE FORESTRY - Ersin Yýlmaz is a research scientist at the Eastern Mediterranean Forestry Research Institute in Turkey (Türkiye). He is also a doctorate student on forest resource economics at Faculty of Forestry in Ýstanbul. His main interest and the subject of his doctorate study is on the planning of multiple use forestry. The aim of his study is to determine how much parts of a forest should be managed for what purposes. These purposes will include water, wildlife, grazing, timber, hunting, recreation, non-wood forest products etc. Thus it will be provided the multiple use of forest resources. His study area will be a part of forest or a watershed. That is to say he want to carry out a mosaic of zones to be allocated multiple uses (timber, water, wildlife, herb etc.) on forest land, and to find the best combinations of management activity alternatives. Finally it will be allocated forest land resources to multiple uses optimally. If you have any information to share with Ersin, please contact him directly at: Inönü Mah. 1403 sk., Arzu Apt. 17/5, 33130 Mersin, TURKEY. Email:yilmazersin@hotmail.com
HOW MUCH WATER? - Barbara Yarter writes "I was wondering if you could tell me how much water a pine or any other tree holds in the ground. I live on Camano Island, WA and everyone complains about the trees being cut down and that we also won't have enoughwater for all the new developments. I would like to remind people that each tree not only hold the ground in place but water, but I only remember they hold water but never learned how much. If you could email with a number I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you, Barbara Yarter." If you have information to share, please contact Barbara directly at: Yarter1@greatnorthern.net
GIS INFORMATION SOUGHT - Apurva Goyal writes "I am working as a Management Trainee in a paper company in India. I have completed a Post Graduation in Forestry Management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal and graduated in Civil Engineering from Panjab University. During the PG I majored in the GIS and Remote Sensing applications in Forestry. I found the field very interesting. I want to pursue research in these fields so that I can contribute positively for the conservation and management of the huge wealth of Natural Resources that my country has. I would be highly obliged if you can please send me some information regarding application of GIS in Forestry and Environment." If you can assist please contact Apurva directly at: Apurva Goyal, Plantation Department, ITC Bhadrachalam Paperboards Ltd., Sarapaka-507128, Dist Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Email: Pltn/MILL/ITCB@itcbpl.satyam.net.in
Burgan, R.E.; Chase, C.H.; Bartlette, R.A. 1999. NDVI and Derived Image Data: Data Archives 1998. Gen. Tech. Report RMRS-GTR-27-CD. USDA Forest Service, RM Research Station, 240 West Prospect Road, Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA.
Clarke, Robin. 1999. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Environment Outlook 2000(GEO-2000). Published by Earthscan Publications on behalf of UNEP. E-mail earthinfo@earthscan.co.uk
Telephone: +44-171 2780433; Fax: +44-171 2781142. It is available from Earthscan at a cost of ú20 or US$40. It is also accessible on http://www.unep.org/geo2000
Cuadernos de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias Forestales - No. 6 - Actas de la Reunión de Córdoba de Grupo de Trabajo de Ordenacion de Montes (1998) 2,500 ptas. No. 7 - Actas de la Reunión de Madrid del Grupo de Trabajo de Fitoclimatologia (1998). 1,500 ptas. To order either see http://www.sectorestales.org/cpublicacions.htm.
Environmental Indicators for Agriculture. Volume 2: Issues And Design -- The York Workshop. OECD Code (51 1999 05 1P) ISBN 92-64-17041-3, 213 pages, September 1999. FF 240 US$40 DM72 £25 ¥ 4750. Also available in French. This book is part of a series of publications entitled Environmental Indicators for Agriculture: Volume 1: Concepts and Framework, was initially released in 1997, Volume 3: Methods and Results, to be published in 2000, will provide, for the first time, series of key agri-environmental indicators, across OECD countries, for the areas listed. Volume 4: to be published in 2001, will report work on the use of indicators in policy analysis. You can obtain the Volume 2 by contacting: PierretteRossignol -- 2 rue André Pascal -75775 Paris Cedex 16, France. Email: Pierrette.Rossignol@oecd.org . Fax (33-1) 45 24 94 53. The publication can also be ordered by going to the OECD Bookshop at: http://www.oecd.org/bookshop/. Further information concerning OECD work on Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment can be found at the following OECD web-site: http://www.oecd.org/agr/policy/ag-env/index.htm
European Commission, 1999. Proceedings of the Seminar 'Land cover and land use information systems for European Union policy needs', Luxembourg, 21-23 January, 1998. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. 193pp. ISBN 92-828-7450-8. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2 rue Mercier, L-2985 Luxembourg. Email info.info@opoce.cec.be. URL: http://eur-op.eu.int
Hershey, R.R.; Reese, G. 1999. Creating a "first-cut" species distribution map for large areas from forest inventory data. Gen. Tech. Report NE-256. 10 p. USDA Forest Service, NE Research Station, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015 USA.
Hill, D.A.; Leckie, D.G. eds. 1999. International Forum, Automated Interpretation of High Spatial Resolution Digital Imagery for Forestry, February 10-12 1998 Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Candad. 402 p. Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 West Burnside Rd., Victoria, BC V8Z 1M5 Canada.
Hunter, David. 1999. Global Environmental Protection in the 21st Century. Foreign Policy in Focus. Special report # 4. 15 p. $3.00 USD. Contact: Interhemispheric Resource Center, P.O. Box 4506, Albuquerque, NM 87196-4506 USA. Tel: +1-505-842-8288. Fax: +1-505-246-1601. Email: resourcectr@igc.apc.org. URL: http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org.
Palmer, A.J. 1999. Foresters' metric conversion program (version 1.0). Gen. Tech. Report. NE-260. Order from: A.J. Palmer, 241 Mercer Springs Rd., Princeton, WV 24740 USA.
Rikimaru, Atsushi; Miyatake, Susumu; Dugan, Patrick. 1999. Sky is the limit for forest management tool (an easy-to-use methodology for satellite imagery is now available on CD-ROM. ITTO Tropical Forest Update 9(3):6-8.
27-30 October 1999. I Congreso Interanational Eurforest. Madrid, Spain. Contact: Grupo 7 Viajes, Pinar, 6, bis, 2 G - 28006 Madrid, Spain. Email: g7pinar@g7viajes.com. Tel: +34-91-564-1626. Fax: +34-91-561-1721. URL: http://www.euroforest.com
1-5 November 1999. Supporting local natural resource management: institutional, communication and economic options: A regional workshop for the Near East/Mediterranean. Fethiye, Turkey. For more information contact: J. Anderson, Forestry Extension Officer, Forest Resources Division, FAO Forestry Department. Tel +39 06 57054176, E-mail: jon.anderson@fao.org -or-
Suade Arancli, Ministry of Forestry, Ataturk Bulvarý 06100 No:153, Bakanlýklar-ANKARA, Turkey. E-mail: sarancli@yahoo.com
2-4 November 1999. BioGeo99. Applications of Geospatial Technology to Biological Sciences. Cajundome, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. Contact: Frank D'Erchia, USGS Biological Resources Division, Central Regional Office, Federal Center, PO Box 25046, Bldg. 20, Mail Stop 300, Denver, CO 80225-0046. Tel: +1-303 236-2730 ext. 246. Email: frank_derchia@usgs.gov. URL: http://biology.usgs.gov/geotech/activities;biogeo99/start.html.
2-5 November 1999. 2nd Jornadas Forestales: Economía y Empresa., Universidad de Huelva, Spain. Contact: II Joradas Forestales, Economía y Empresa Forestal, Oficina de Información al Estudiante, Pabellón Administrativo, Campus Universitario la Rábida, Palos de Frontera, 21819 Huelva, Spain. Fax: +34-959-350-311
5-6 November 1999. ACM GIS '99: 7th ACM Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Contact: Robert Laurini. Email: laurini@ifhpserv.insa-lyon.fr.URL: http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~cmbm/acmgis99/.
9-10 November 1999. Getting more from timber cruises. Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. Contact: David Waterman. Tel: +1-540-231-5486. Email: dmwater@vt.edu.
10-12 November 1999. Wildland urban interface - planning for communities. Ocean City, Maryland, USA. Contact: Ms Dale Maginnis, Delmarva Advisory Council. Tel: +1-410-742-9271.
16 November 1999. Global positioning systems. Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. Contact: David Waterman. Tel: +1-540-231-5486. Email: dmwater@vt.edu.
22-24 November 1999. Recent advances on oak health in Europe. Warsaw, Poland. For information contact: "Tomasz Oszako" Oszakot@ibles.waw.pl
6-9 December, 1999. International Symposium on Sustainable Development in Semi-Arid Regions - WORLD SEMI-ARID '99 (Note - this is a change of dates). João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil. Contact: Prof. Dorival C. Bruni, President of BIOSFERA, Brazilian Society for the Environment (BIOSFERA), P.O.Box 2432, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP: 20001-970, Brazil. Tel/Fax: (+55 21) 221-0155/ 2217626. Tel: (+55 21) 252-1631. E-mail: biosfera@biosfera.com.br. Web site: www.biosfera.com.br
6-10 December 1999. Pecora 14: Land Satellite Information III: Demonstrating the Value of Satellite Imagery. Contact: Kass Green, Pacific Meridian Resources, 5915 Hollis Street, Building B, Emeryville, CA 94606 USA. Tel: +1-510-654-6980. Fax: +1-510-654-5774. Email: kgreen@pacificmeridian.com. URL: http://www.asprs.org/satellite_imaging_conference.
21-25 February 2000. Designing Multipurpose Resource Inventories - An International Short Course. CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica. This course will provide grass roots and hands on experience in designing multipurpose resource inventories. The intent is to provide instructions so that the participants design MRIs in their own countries and also provide training in their respective regions. Participation will be limited to approx. 40 students. Contact: Dr. Miguel Caballero Deloya, Head. Area of Environmental Economics and Sociology Research Program, CATIE 7170. Turrialba, Costa Rica. TELFAX: 556 8514. Tel: 556 6431 Ext. 2522. Electronic mail: caballer@catie.ac.cr. Note: If you are interested in seeing the proposed course content send me an email and ask for "MRI" - Gyde.
3-5 April 2000. Monitoring for Ecosystem Health Conference. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. For additional information, see http://www.serm.gov.sk.ca or contact: Conference Coordinator, Monitoring for Ecosystem Health, Room 534 - 3211 Albert Street, REGINA Saskatchewan S4S 5W6, Canada. Tel: +1-306 787-5852. Fax: +1-306 787-0024. E-mail: monitoring.erm@govmail.gov.sk.ca
8-12 May 2000. The Role of Boreal Forests and Forestry in the Global Carbon Budget. Edmonton Alberta, Canada. URL: http://athens.nofc.forestry.ca/carbon/index_e.htm
27-30 September 2000. SAF Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources. Snowmass Village, Aspen, Colorado, USA. Sponsored by the Operations Research and Management Science Working Group of the Society of American Foresters. They are accepting abstracts for both peer-reviewed manuscripts which will be published in Forest Science and manuscripts that will be published in the proceedings. ABSTRACTS DUE NOV. 30, 1999. For more information go to: http://www.for.msu.edu/e4/ssafr2000.htm
Mountain Forum Atlas - World Orogenic Zones: http://www.mtnforum.org/mtnforum/resources/atlas/atlas.htm
The Council for Agricultural Science & Technology (CAST) recently co-sponsored on carbon sequestration. A summary of the workshop can be found on the CAST web-site at: http://www.cast-science.org/9812carb.htm. The workshop proceedings "Carbon Sequestration in Soils: Science, Monitoring, & Beyond" can be obtained from Batelle Press at: http://www.batelle.org/bookstore.
Drought index maps of the USA may be viewed at http://eostc.umt.edu/Forestry/Products/showSMIByYear.asp?year=1999
As always, please share as appropriate and thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend. Gyde