FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE (#12, 2002)
Date: Monday, March 25 @ 00:59:48 MST
Topic: Forest Information Update
FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE VOL 3, NO. 12
25 MARCH 2002
Forest Information Update (FIU) is a free weekly email newsletter sent to people interested in the inventorying and monitoring of natural resources. FIU is produced by Forest Information Services (http://home.att.net/~gklund/) and is supported by organizations, agencies and individuals working in the natural resources field. All the FIU's are now posted on the GAOF portal www.foresters.org/portal under Topic (Forest Information Update). Currently FIU is sent to about 6,000 email addresses world-wide including distribution through the Forest Net (run out of Finland), Global Association of Online Foresters (UK), International Forestry List (Malaysia), the Forestry Forum, Biomonitor, ConserveAfrica, and Desertification Group (Africa), the Society of American Foresters Members list and Forest Inventory (USA) as well as the lists I maintain. Many recipients forward FIU to their own mailing lists. To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your email address, or sponsor, contact me at gklund@att.net. Thanks Gyde
FIU SPONSOR - This issue of FIU is sponsored in part through the generous support of:
THIS SPACE FOR RENT!!! This could be you – reaching over 6,000 natural resource specialists world-wide with your message and at the same time supporting FIU. Rates are very inexpensive. For more information, please contact me – Thanks, Gyde (gklund@att.net).
NEW FIU SUBSCRIBERS - FIU is pleased to welcome:
Arnie Friedt – Timber Management Officer, New Mexico Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department, USA. http:// www.emnrd.state.nm.us/forestry/
Georgiy Bondaruk - Scientific Secretary, Ukraine Research Institute of Forestry, Kharkiv, Ukraine. http://ucs.orst.edu/~peremysv/ukraine/ monitoring.htm
Igor F. Buksha - Head of Laboratory of Forest Monitoring and Certification, Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry and Forest Melioration, Kharkiv, Ukraine. http://ucs.orst.edu/~peremysv/ukraine/ monitoring.htm
Jean-Claude Carrier - Assistant to the International Forestry Partnership Program (IFPP), Canada
Joe Thomas - Review appraiser for the National Park Service in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Our territory includes 13 states, and we sometimes get involved in market value/contributory value opinions of timber in an appraiser's highest and best use, and market value opinions for a proposed property acquisition via purchase, exchange, and/or donation. http:// www.nps.gov/
John Townsend – National Park Service, USA. http://www.nps.gov/
Museo Ameghino - Santa Fe, Argentina. www.unl.edu.ar/santafe/ museocn.htm
Simon Richard Bull - Environmental Cell Project, Australia
INPUT – A very Happy Independence Day to our readers in Greece! This week's input comes from Terri Bates, Brian Bonnell, Karl Davies, Ed Frayer, Fu Jinhe, Tim Johnson, Gary Krupnick, Gerlinde, Vidar Nordin, and Domingo M. Ramirez. Thank you all for sharing your information!
HAVE YOU HEARD? NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
WE LOSE A FRIEND - DALE SOLOMON – Ed Frayer writes “Dale Solomon passed away last Thursday (14 March) after a year-long battle with brain cancer. Dale and I went to undergraduate and graduate school together and had many good times over the years - both professionally and socially - mostly hunting and fishing. He'll be missed by his friends.” Dale was a USFS international expert in computer modeling, modeling, dendrochronology, global change, silviculture, vegetative ecosystem management, forest health monitoring, old growth forests simulation, forest ecosystem dynamics. His latest research has been on the development of the forest growth model FIBER, used to predict tree and stand growth for spruce fir and Northern hardwood forest types in New England based on ecological rationale He was also involved with aspects of the carbon balance model AMORPHYS, currently being constructed by the project team, within the Global Change Program. Sympathy cards may be sent to his wife: Carol Solomon, Rd#3, Box 1444, Bangor ME 04401 USA.
INNOVATIVE BIOFUELS FROM BAMBOO - Fu Jinhe writes, “Energy is an important substantial base for each country's social and economic development. With the development of world's economics and society, the present energy resource structure can't meet the demand forever. According the calculating of the reserves of petrified fuels, which have been known, and the amount of annual energy consumption, scientists estimate that petroleum and natural gas resources will be used-up before 2050. In addition, extensive petrified fuels combustion is having an adverse effect on environment. So it is urgent to develop and utilize a renewable energy resource to substitute for the traditional petrified fuels. Biomass is renewable resource and has broad development prospect. There are 1200 bamboo species in the world and more than 20 million ha of bamboo forests and plantation. China is the country with the richest bamboo resource. More than 500 bamboo species grow in 20 provinces of China and cover 4.2 million ha land. In Germany more than 100 bamboo species are introduced, most of them are from China. Bamboo has been recognized as the fastest growing plant species in the world with very favorable characteristics for gasification and the synthesis of gasoline and diesel. Bamboo has a number of desirable fuel characteristics such as low ash content and alkali index. Its heating value is higher than most agricultural residues, grasses and straw. Besides bamboo has high biomass productivity, self-regeneration, sustainable basis and environmental friendly functions. It's essential to study bamboo biomass for biofuel such as bamboo biomass or bamboo residuals catalytic liquefaction or fast pyrolysis. The objective of this research is to evaluate the technical, biological and environmental aspects of bamboo transformation to biofuels. Some car companies have started to develop such technologies. The cooperation will concentrate on these aspects and prepare a plan for implementation. It will contact deferent companies which have already developed such technologies (Gasification and production of syn-gas, hydrogenation and upgrading to gasoline and diesel in respect to the availability of biomass resource from bamboo as a new industrial and economic utilisation of bamboo. For more information see: http:// www.inbar.int/
NEW WEBSITE - Domingo M. Ramirez writes, “We are pleased to inform you that the Training Center for Tropical Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability (TREES) has a new website: www.apafri.upm.edu.my/trees/index.htm.”
29,000-SPECIES BOTANICAL DATABASE NOW ONLINE. From the Forest list – Tim Johnson announces, “We have recently added the Herbage Botanical Database to holisticopia.com, in its entirety. This database, which focuses on ethnobotanical uses, contains over 29,000 species. The URL is: http:// www.holisticopia.com/herbs/.”
BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED...
This section is devoted to resource inventory tips and miscellaneous blurbs for whatever uses you care to make. Please limit contributions to one paragraph or so. Thanks, Gyde.
HISTORIC BITTERLICH BOOK - Gerlinde writes When Walter Bitterlich did tidy up his office during the past weeks, he did find quite a few books "The Relascope Idea -Relative Measurements in Forestry" " which was published by the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux (CAB) a number of years ago. Just last year were was some demand for this book in the US. The book covers aspects of mensuration that are of interest to all foresters, giving a detailed description of angle-count sampling, based on the author's revolutionary discovery that the basal-area density of forest stands can be estimated from a simple relascope count. It covers the manifold applications of this idea and shows the development of the measuring instruments especially the Spiegel-Relaskop. This is an important book, source of researche knowledge, recommended for research institutes and academic libraries as well as for everyone who is interested in the development of angle-count sampling, the methods and the instruments related to this field. The price for the book is USD 69,-- + USD 10,-- for postal service. We also offer a very informative video film (8 minutes) showing the life and achievements of Walter Bitterlich including a good animation showing the principle of angle-count sampling. This is especially useful for students on colleges or universities. The package price together with the book is USD 79,-- + USD 10,-- for postal service.” If you are interested, please contact relaskop@relaskop.at
HELP!
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
REQUEST OF CONTACT IN IQUITOS, PERU - Group of French wood specialists preparing a visit and report on medicinal/cosmetic/ perfume trees would like to establish a contact with botanists and/or foresters in Iquitos, Peru. Please contact as soon as possible Pierre-Marie Desclos - desclos@tin.it
BEST GIS FOR FORESTRY? – Karl Davies writes, “Here's a list of things that a GIS program should be able to do for basic forestry mapping. Did I leave anything out? What programs would best fit the bill? BASIC FORESTRY MAPPING NEEDS. 1) Import and georegister base maps from digital or scanned aerial photos and topo maps as raster files. Adjust brightness, contrast, transparency, etc. 2) Trace and georegister vector layers from scanned maps such as boundary surveys, town tax maps, soils maps, etc. Vectorize raster files of same. 3) Trace or draw forest stand- type boundaries, streams, roads, and other features with mouse in other layers. Adjust property lines and stand type lines by dragging corners/ vertices to make them fit with points visible on aerial photos, topo maps, surveys, or tax maps. 4) Show bearings and distances for boundary lines on map automatically, and in different formats - surveyors' quadrants or 360 degrees, feet or meters. Round off bearings and distances to varying levels of precision according to quality of field measurements. 5) Create boundary maps showing bearings and distances from surveys or deed descriptions. Do the same from GPS waypoints taken at corners. 6) Calculate areas for forest stand types and entire properties, or other polygons/shapes defined by lines on the map. 7) Easily change weights, patterns and colors for lines. Add and change fill patterns along streams, roads, steep slopes, etc (buffer strips). Customize default line and fill patterns. 8) Create and edit formatting for text labels for stand types, roads, streams and other features. Add and edit formatting for text boxes to provide additional information. Have the option of showing locus maps or detail zooms in boxes. 9) Link forest inventory/appraisal and other database files with properties and stand types. Query database files from within the GIS program. 10) Print out visually attractive maps with titles, legends, scale bars, north arrows, references, etc. Create templates for frequently used layouts, including the same layouts for different map scales. 11) The ability to produce digital terrain models and demonstrate the impact of felling and planting on landscapes.12) Share files with GIS and CAD programs in the most popular file formats. 13) Buy the program for less than $500 and learn it quickly from an easy-to-understand manual and online help files. Have the option of giving clients a reader version of the software, or even a stripped-down version for free.” Please provide any feedback to Karl at mail@daviesand.com.
TENDER LISTINGS? Do you know of any sites/publications/libraries where one can find out what forestry or natural resource inventory projects are coming up for Tender? Or where there is an interest or need? If so, please let me know and I will share the information in a later FIU. Thanks, Gyde (gklund@att.net)
OPPORTUNITIES - Several readers of FIU are seeking employment in the forestry field. If you have jobs available and are in need of good people, please consider posting your vacancies in FIU (there is no charge for this service) and the following outlets:
http://foresters.org/jobs/
http://forestry.about.com/education/forestry/msub14.htm
http://stateforesters.org/news.html
http://www.canadian-forests.com/job.html
http://www.forestryusa.com/jobs.htm
http://www.safnet.org/market/careercenter.htm
HAVE YOU READ?
Obtain from your local library or from the sources provided. For a complete listing of publications from previous FIUs see http://home.att.net/~gklund/ invpubs.html.
Anon. 2001. Souvenir cum Abstracts – National Research Seminar on Herbal Conservation, Cultivation, Marketing, and Utilization with Special Emphasis on Chhattisgarh “The Herbal State.” 13-14 December 2001. India. Contact: P. Oudhia, Director (Res. & Dev.), Srishti Herbal Academy & Research Inst. www.sharionline.com.
Bas-Saint-Laurent Model Forest. 1998. Promoting Mixed Forest Silviculture: Final Report. (send request to: foretmodele@fmodbsl.qc.ca )
Bibby, J.S. et al. 1988. Land Capability for Forestry in Britain.http:// www.soils.org.uk/landclass/lndcapforest.htm
Chan, Lien-Chang. 2000. Slopeland capability classification as a tool in land use planning in Taiwan. http://www.agnet.org/library/article/ eb483a.html
Durrant, D.; Boswell R. 2002. Comparison of crown density assessments on trees within the stand and on ride edges within the forest. Forest Ecology and Management 157 (1-3): 1-6 http:// www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/5/0/3/3/1/0/index.htt
FAO 1997. Land Quality Indicators and Their Use in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development. http://www.fao.org/docrep/ W4745E/w4745e00.htm#Contents
Garmon, Brad. N. d. GIS and Remote Sensing for Natural Hazards Mitigation and Research: A Review and Topical Bibliographies. http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/student/garmon/
Kingston, Richard. N.d. Web Based GIS for Public Participation Decision Making in the UK. http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/varenius/ppgis/ papers/kingston/kingston.html
Lund, H. Gyde. 2002. Coming to terms with politicians and definitions. In: Dobbertin, Michèle Kaennel; Prüller, Renate. Forest terminology: living expert knowledge – how to get society to understand forest terminology. Proceedings of IUFRO 6.03.02/SilvaVoc Group, IUFRO World Congress, August 2000, Malaysia. IUFRO Occasional Paper 14. 23-44. ISSN 1024-414X. IUFRO Secretariat, Seckendorff- Gudent-Weg 8, A-1131 Vienna, Austria. Email: iufro@forvie.ac.at. URL: http://iufro.boku.ac.at.
McDonald, T.P. et al. 2002. Using the global positioning system to map disturbance patterns of forest harvesting machinery. Can. J. For. Res. 32(2): 310-319. http://www.nrc.ca/cgi-bin/cisti/journals/rp/ rp2_abst_e?cjfr_x01-189_32_ns_nf_cjfr2-02
Nissen, T.M.; Midmore, D.J. 2002. Stand basal area as an index of tree of competitiveness in tree intercropping. Agroforestry Systems 54(1):51-60. http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0167-4366
Peng, Zhong-Ren 1997. An Assessment of the Development of Internet GIS. URISA ’97.
http://www.esri.com/library/userconf/proc97/proc97/to550/pap526/ p526.htm
Read, Edith; Gough, Jennifer 1996. Beyond mapping: using GIS for natural resource assessment and analysis. http://www.esri.com/library/ userconf/proc96/TO400/PAP358/P358.HTM
Thomas, Sean C.; Winner, William E. 2000. Leaf area index of an old- growth Douglas-fir forest estimated from direct structural measurements in the canopy. http://www.fsl.orst.edu/oldtree/ ThomasWinner_CJFR2000.pdf
van Essen L. D., et al. 2002. Assessment of the woody vegetation of ol choro oiroua, Masai Mara, Kenya. African Journal of Ecology 40(1):76-83 http://www.blacksci.co.uk/~cgilib/ jnlpage.asp?Journal=afje&File=afj04001&Page=contents&Type=detail
Walpole, M. J. 2002. Factors affecting black rhino monitoring in Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Kenya African Journal of Ecology 40(1):18-25. http://www.blacksci.co.uk/~cgilib/ jnlpage.asp?Journal=afje&File=afj04001&Page=contents&Type=detail
YOU'RE INVITED!
For a more complete listing of upcoming inventory and monitoring related meetings, see: http://home.att.net/~gklund/invmeet.html
http://nuf.boku.ac.at/
http://search.forestworld.com/events/events_frame.html
http://www.agnic.org/mtg/index.html
http://www.asprs.org/asprs/meetings/calendar.html
http://www.efi.fi/events/
http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/resource/frames/agenda.html
http://www.fao.org/forestry/for/forc/free/education/courses.asp
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/updates/forest.html
http://www.safnet.org/calendar/coned.htm
26 March 2002. An Inside Look at Forestry in the Pending Farm Bill. NCSAF Luncheon. Washington, DC. Library of Congress, Madison Bldg, Montpelier Room, Dining Room C, 101 Independence Avenue, SE. 11:30 Social Time, 12:00 Luncheon. Contact: Terri Bates, +1-703/538-1134 or email: mtbates@erols.com
3 - 5 April 2002. 83rd Annual Conference, Canadian Woodlands Forum. Moncton, N.B. Canada. Contact: Guillaume Gignac; Email: ggignac@cwfcof.org ; URL: www.cwfcof.org
7-12 April 2002 . 8th Brazilian Forestry Congress and 2nd PanAmerican Forestry Congress. Brazilia, Brazil. Contact: Rubens Cristiano Garlipp: Email- sbs@sbs.org.br ; URL: www.abs.org.br
8-11 April 2002. 16th Annual GIS Conference. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Contact: Matt Ball; Fax: 303-544-0595; Email: mball@aip.com ; URL: www.geotecevent.com
8 - 20 April 2002. Alternative Ways to Combat Desertification: Connecting Community Action with Science and Common sense. Cape Town, South Africa/Rural Communities and Gobabeb, Namibia. Contact: Ms. Mary Seely, Desert Research Foundation of Namibia, Box 20232, Windhoek, Namibia, Fax: 264-61-230-172; Email: mseely@drfn.org.na ; URL: http:// des2002.az.blm.gov/homepage.htm
22 April - 4 May 2002. Neotropical forest botany. Georgetown, Guyana. Contact the Training Coordinator: Iwokrama International Centre, 67 Bel Air, Georgetown, Guyana. Tel: 592-225-1504 Fax: 592-225-9199. Email: iwokrama@iwokrama.org or mhoosein@iwokrama.org. URL: www.iwokrama.org or www.iwokrama.com. $875
31 July – 4 August 2002. 12th National Gap Analysis Program Meeting - A geographic approach to planning for biological diversity. Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA. Contact: Elisabeth Brackney, USGS Gap Analysis Program, 530 S. Asbury St. # 1, Moscow, ID 83843 USA. Tel: +1-208-885-3618. Email: brackney@uidaho.edu. URL: http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/meetings/2002/info.htm.
Coming in 2003
22 April – 2 June 2003. Biodiversity monitoring and assessment. University of the Philippines Los Baños. Deals with monitoring and assessment techniques, surveys and methods, procedures, data analysis, and interpretation of long-term biodiversity data. The course offers a wide range of topics covering the scope and relevance of biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystem, planning and approaches in assessing and monitoring biodiversity, genetic and population inventory methods, fauna and floral inventory, single and multi-species inventory, ecosystem and landscape diversity inventory, analysis and interpretation of biodiversity data and information. US $3,780. Contact: The Director, TRAINING CENTER FOR TROPICAL RESOURCES AND ECOSYSTEMS SUSTAINABILITY (TREES), College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños, P.O. Box 434; College, Laguna 4031, PHILIPPINES. Tel. No.: +(63 49) 536-2268 or 536-2736. Fax: +(63 49) 536-3340. Email: trees@laguna.net
12-15 May 2003. 2ND Forest Engineering Conference. Vaxjo, Sweden. Contact: Maria Iwarsson, SkogForsk, Uppsala Science Park, SE-751 83 Uppsala, Sweden. Fax: 46-18-188600; URL: www.skogforsk.se/fec
13 – 26 May 2003. Application of GIS in natural resources policy. University of the Philippines Los Baños. Provides administrators, managers, experts and other professionals in the fields of natural resources policy research the knowledge to include geographic and temporal dimensions in their policy recommendations and strategies. The participants are expected to gain skills on the use of geographic information systems (GIS) data in policy assessment and resources management alternatives. The course will be composed of lectures, discussions and hands-on computer exercises. US $ 1,575. Contact: The Director, TRAINING CENTER FOR TROPICAL RESOURCES AND ECOSYSTEMS SUSTAINABILITY (TREES), College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños, P.O. Box 434; College, Laguna 4031, PHILIPPINES. Tel. No.: +(63 49) 536-2268 or 536-2736. Fax: +(63 49) 536-3340. Email: trees@laguna.net
WHILE SURFING THE WEB…INTERESTING LINKS
For a complete listing of links from previous FIUs see http://home.att.net/ ~gklund/invlinks.html.
Agricultural Classification - http://www.co.hernando.fl.us/pa/ greenbelt.htm
Glossary of Forestry Terms - http://www.borealforest.org/nwgloss.htm
Putting Together a Watershed Management Plan - http:// www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/Brochures/PutTogether.html
Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Conservation and Management - http://www.ramas.com/consgis.htm
What are the general selection criteria for indicators? http:// iisd1.iisd.ca/measure/faqcriteria.htm
Please mention FIU in any correspondence you may have on items in this issue. As always, please share as appropriate. If you have any new resource inventory/monitoring-related publications, meetings, or news that you would like listed in FIU, please contact me … and don't forget I always welcome sponsors. This newsletter depends upon your continued input and support. Cheers. Gyde
--
H. Gyde Lund
Forest Information Services
8221 Thornwood Ct.
Manassas, VA 20110-4627 USA
Voice: +1-703-368-7219, Fax: +1-703-257-1419
Email: gklund@att.net
URL: http://home.att.net/~gklund
"Resource inventory, Web searches, Information synthesis"
|
|