Title:

Northern Forest Futures Database

Author(s):

Miles, Patrick D.; Wear, David N.

Publication Year:

2015

How to Cite:

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Miles, Patrick D.; Wear, David N. 2015. Northern Forest Futures Database. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2015-0009

Abstract:

The Northern Forest Futures database (NFFDB) supports the reporting of both current and projected future forest conditions for the 20 states that make up the U.S. North, an area bounded by Maine, Maryland, Missouri, and Minnesota. The NFFDB database and attendant reporting tools are available to the public as a Microsoft Access database. The NFF_CurrentReports tool generates customized reports for a variety of forest statistics for the 2008 inventory year such as estimates of area, numbers of trees, volume, biomass, average annual net growth, average annual mortality, and average annual removals. The NFF_ProjectionReports program supports the reporting of projected forest statistics by decade through the year 2060 for any of 14 scenarios that reflect varying climatic and socioeconomic possibilities. Also included in this product are the individual Forest Inventory and Analysis database (FIADB) files for the 20 states in the U.S. North which contain data and a reporting tool that can be used to compute estimates of area, numbers of trees, volume, biomass, average annual net growth, average annual mortality, average annual removals, as well as carbon, down woody material biomass, and area change.

Keywords:

biota; boundaries; Climate change; Carbon; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Forest & Plant Health; Invasive species; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Assessments; Resource inventory; forest composition; projections; emerald ash borer; U.S. North; United States; Connecticut; Delaware; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Maine; Maryland; Massachusetts; Michigan; Minnesota; Missouri; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; Vermont; West Virginia; Wisconsin

Related publications:

• Woudenberg, Sharon W.; Conkling, Barbara L.; O'Connell, Barbara M.; LaPoint, Elizabeth B.; Turner, Jeffery A.; Waddell, Karen L. 2010. The Forest Inventory and Analysis database: database description and users manual version 4.0 for Phase 2. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-245. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 336 p. (included in full data publication download). //research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/37446
• Miles, Patrick D.; Huggett Jr., Robert J.; Moser, W. Keith. 2015. Northern Forest Futures reporting tools and database guide. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-150. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 48 p. (included in full data publication download). //research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/49239
• DeSantis, Ryan D.; Moser, W. Keith; Huggett, Robert J., Jr.; Li, Ruhong; Wear, David N.; Miles, Patrick D. 2013. Modeling the effects of emerald ash borer on forest composition in the Midwest and Northeast United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-112. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 23 p. //research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/43082
• Shifley, Stephen R.; Moser, W. Keith; Goerndt, Michael E.; Song, Nianfu; Nelson, Mark D.; Nowak, David J.; Miles, Patrick D.; Butler, Brett J.; DeSantis, Ryan D.; Aguilar, Francisco X.; Tavernia, Brian G. 2014. Futures project anticipates changes and challenges facing forests of the northern United States. In: Groninger, John W.; Holzmueller, Eric J.; Nielsen, Clayton K.; Dey, Daniel C., eds. Proceedings, 19th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 2014 March 10-12; Carbondale, IL. General Technical Report NRS-P-142. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 16-17. //research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/47321

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