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ALOG: A spreadsheet-based program for generating artificial logs

Log sawing simulation computer programs can be valuable tools for training sawyers as well as for testing different sawing patterns. Most available simulation programs rely on databases from which to draw logs and can be very costly and time-consuming to develop. ALOG (Artificial LOg Generator) is a Microsoft Excel®-based computer program that was developed to...

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Author(s):

Matthew F. Winn; Randolph H. Wynne; Philip A. Araman

Year:

2004

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Forest Products Journal. 54(1): 62-66.

ALOG user's manual: A Guide to using the spreadsheet-based artificial log generator

Computer programs that simulate log sawing can be valuable training tools for sawyers, as well as a means oftesting different sawing patterns. Most available simulation programs rely on diagrammed-log databases, which canbe very costly and time consuming to develop. Artificial Log Generator (ALOG) is a user-friendly Microsoft^® Excel^®...

Author(s):

Matthew F. Winn; Philip A. Araman; Randolph H. Wynne

Year:

2012

Keywords:

artificial logs, defect generation, log defects, log generation, red oak, sawing simulation

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Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-79. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 13 p.

Organizing groundwater regimes and response thresholds by soils: A framework for understanding runoff generation in a headwater catchment

A network of shallow groundwater wells in a headwater catchment at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire, U.S. was used to investigate the hydrologic behavior of five distinct soil morphological units. The soil morphological units were hypothesized to be indicative of distinct water table regimes. Water table fluctuations in the wells were...

Author(s):

John P. Gannon; Scott W. Bailey; Kevin J. McGuire

Year:

2014

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Water Resources Research. 50(11): 8403-8419.

Two fern species new to New Hampshire, with comments on the generation of calcareous-like habitat by base-poor rocks

Incidental to other field investigations, I happened upon small populations of two fern species not previously reported from New Hampshire: Pellaea atropurpurea (L.) Link and Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott. Both species are typically associated with calcareous habitats, although limestone and marble are nearly absent from New...

Author(s):

Scott W. Bailey

Year:

2013

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Rhodora. 115(963): 286-289.

Web-based tree crown condition evaluation training tool for urban and community forestry

Volunteers are getting involved more and more, particularly in monitoring applications within the context of urban and community forestry. Training numerous volunteers becomes a substantial task given the numbers of people, time available, and a multitude of other projects. Hundreds of different individuals may be involved in a single field season. These individuals...

Author(s):

Neil Clark; Matthew Winn; Philip Araman

Year:

2009

Keywords:

Volunteers, webbased training (WBT), tree crown condition

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General Technical Report SRS-116. Hot Springs, Arkansas: USDA-Forest Service, Southern Research Station. P. 231

Inter-laboratory variation in the chemical analysis of acidic forest soil reference samples from eastern North America

Long-term forest soil monitoring and research often requires a comparison of laboratory data generated at different times and in different laboratories. Quantifying the uncertainty associated with these analyses is necessary to assess temporal changes in soil properties. Forest soil chemical properties, and methods to measure these properties, often differ from...

Author(s):

D.S. Ross; S.W. Bailey; R.D. Briggs; J. Curry; I.J. Fernandez; G. Fredriksen; C.L. Goodale; P.W. Hazlett; P.R. Heine; C.E. Johnson; J.T. Larson; G.B. Lawrence; R.K. Kolka; R. Ouimet; D. Pare; D. deB Richter; C.D. Schirmer; R.A. Warby

Year:

2015

Keywords:

aluminum, calcium, carbon, forest soils, inter-laboratory variability, laboratory methods, pH, reference soils, soil analysis, Uncertainty Analysis, uncertainty

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Ecosphere. 6(5): 73.

Mapping of hydropedologic spatial patterns in a steep headwater catchment

A hydropedologic approach can be used to describe soil units affected by distinct hydrologic regimes. We used field observations of soil morphology and geospatial information technology to map the distribution of five hydropedologic soil units across a 42-ha forested headwater catchment. Soils were described and characterized at 172 locations within Watershed 3, the...

Author(s):

Cody P. Gillin; Scott W. Bailey; Kevin J. McGuire; John P. Gannon

Year:

2015

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Soil Science Society of America Journal. 79(2): 440-453.

Linking water age and solute dynamics in streamflow at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA

We combine experimental and modeling results from a headwater catchment at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF), New Hampshire, USA, to explore the link between stream solute dynamics and water age. A theoretical framework based on water age dynamics, which represents a general basis for characterizing solute transport at the catchment scale, is here applied to...

Author(s):

Paolo Benettin; Scott W. Bailey; John L. Campbell; Mark B. Green; Andrea Rinaldo; Gene E. Likens; Kevin J. McGuire; Gianluca Botter

Year:

2015

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Water Resources Research. 51(11): 9256-9272.

Connecting non-timber forest products stakeholders to information and knowledge: A case study of an Internet web site

Many products are harvested from forests that are not timber-based but are based on plant materials. These non-timber forest products (NTFPs) have not been fully incorporated into economic development programs, yet they provide significant monetary benefits for rural entrepreneurs. Interest in NTFPs as alternative forest enterprises and sources of additional income has...

Author(s):

James Chamberlain; Matt Winn; A.L. Hammett

Year:

2009

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Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-116. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 87-94.

Survey studies how to reach primary hardwood producers with new information

It is important for the timber industry to obtain new knowledge in order to stay competitive, increase productivity, or to produce new products from a sometime changing resource. We sought to understand how new knowledge? innovative techniques, improved technology, and marketing information?reach our primary forest industries in the United States. We surveyed hardwood...

Author(s):

Philip Araman; Robert Smith; Matthew Winn

Year:

2009

Keywords:

timber industry productivity, hardwood

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-116. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. P. 234.

Bat Activity in a Forest Landscape of central Massachusetts

Nine species of bat are known to occur across the six New England a states, but most aspects of their natural history, such as foraging habitat use, are poorly understood. Recent published research has documented the importance of still-water habitats as foci of bat flight activity. To better understand and document habitat use in southern New England, we used the...

Author(s):

Robert T. Brooks; W. Mark Ford

Year:

2005

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Northeastern Naturalist 12(4):447-462

Annual and seasonal variation and the effects of hydroperiod on benthic macroinvertebrates of seasonal forest (

Seasonal forest ponds (SFPs) are isolated, ephemeral lentic habitats in upland forest ecosystems. These ponds occur commonly throughout temperate forests. Faunal communities of these ponds are dominated by invertebrates. Composition of these communities varies temporally both between years and also seasonally within a single hydrologic year, composition is most...

Author(s):

Robert T. Brooks

Year:

2000

Keywords:

benthic macroinvertebrates, seasonal forest ponds, hydroperiod, temporal variation, island biogeography

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Wetlands. 20(4): 707-715.

Analysis of Web Site Activity and Technology Transfer Accomplishments

Government research activities are coming under increased scrutiny to justify their research direction, and to validate research project existence. One way to justify research is to pay closer attention to research clientele, their needs and their willingness and ability to adopt new technologies. Because many research products are informational rather than tangible,...

Author(s):

Daniel L. Schmoldt; Matthew F. Winn; Philip A. Araman

Year:

1997

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Proceedings, 1997 ACSM/ASPRS Annual Convention and Exposition. 4: 446-456.

Ground-based digital imagery for tree stem analysis

In the USA, a subset of permanent forest sample plots within each geographic region are intensively measured to obtain estimates of tree volume and products. The detailed field measurements required for this type of sampling are both time consuming and error prone. We are attempting to reduce both of these factors with the aid of a commercially-available solid-state...

Author(s):

Neil Clark; Daniel L. Schmoldt; Randolph H. Wynne; Matthew F. Winn; Philip A. Araman

Year:

2000

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Proceedings, Resource Technology '98 Nordic. Finnish Forest Research Institute, Research Paper 791. 9pp.

Health of eastern North American sugar maple forests and factors affecting decline

Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) is a keystone species in the forests of the northeastern and Midwestern United States and eastern Canada. Its sustained health is an important issue in both managed and unmanaged forests. While sugar maple generally is healthy throughout its range, decline disease of sugar maple has occurred sporadically during the past...

Author(s):

Stephen B. Horsley; Robert P. Long; Scott W. Bailey; Richard A. Hallett; Philip M. Wargo

Year:

2002

Keywords:

Sugar maple health, sugar maple decline, nutrition, stress effects

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Northern Journal of Applied Forestry. 19(2): 34-44.

Habitat-associated and temporal patterns of bat activity in a diverse forest landscape of southern New England, USA

The development and use of acoustic recording technology, surveys have revealed the composition, relative levels of activity, and preliminary habitat use of bat communities of various forest locations. However, detailed examinations of acoustic surveys results to investigate temporal patterns of bat activity are rare. Initial active acoustic surveys of bat activity on...

Author(s):

Robert T. Brooks

Year:

2009

Keywords:

acoustic survey, AnaBat, aquatic habitats, bat survey, forest management, linear habitats, timber harvest

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Biodiversity and Conservation. 18: 529-545.

Filters and templates: stonefly (Plecoptera) richness in Ouachita Mountains streams, U.S.A

1. We collected adult stoneflies periodically over a 1-year period at 38 sites in two
headwater catchments in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas, U.S.A. The 43 species
collected were a subset of the Ozark-Ouachita fauna and the much larger fauna of the
eastern U.S.A. We estimated 78?91% species coverage in...

Author(s):

Andrew L. Sheldon; Melvin L. Warren

Year:

2009

Keywords:

diversity, local effects, regional effects, stream drying, stream size

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Freshwater Biology 54:943-956

Computerized training for the hardwood sawmill industry: The edging and trimmer trainer (version 3.0)

In the hardwood sawmill industry, decisions made at the various processing stages directly affect the value of the end product. In order to realize maximum product value, it is essential that employees be properly trained. The edging and trimming stage of lumber processing is one area where lack of proper training can result in poor manufacturing decisions and...

Author(s):

Philip Araman; A Palmer; Matthew Winn; D Kline

Year:

2009

Keywords:

Trimming Trainer Program, Edging

Source:

General Technical Report SRS-116

Potential impacts of global climate change on the hydrology and ecology of ephemeral freshwater systems of the forests of the northeastern United States

Global, national, and regional assessments of the potential effects of Global Climate Change (GCC) have been recently released, but not one of these assessments has specifically addressed the critical issue of the potential impacts of GCC on ephemeral freshwater systems (EFS). I suggest that this is a major oversight as EFS occur in various forms across the globe. In...

Author(s):

Robert T. Brooks

Year:

2009

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Climatic Change. 95: 469?483.

Diversity and stability in Mississippi stream fish assemblages

Positive correlations between diversity and stability have been reported for a number of ecosystems and are thought to be caused by a stabilizing effect of differential species? responses to environmental perturbation. Empirical field studies in which investigators tested for diversity?stability relationships are lacking for some taxonomic groups and typically have not...

Author(s):

Jocob F. Schaefer; Scott R. Clark; Melvin L. Jr. Warren

Year:

2012

Keywords:

diversity, stability, insurance hypothesis, stream fish

Source:

Freshwater Science 31:882-894.

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ALOG: A spreadsheet-based program for generating artificial logs

ALOG user's manual: A Guide to using the spreadsheet-based artificial log generator

Organizing groundwater regimes and response thresholds by soils: A framework for understanding runoff generation in a headwater catchment

Two fern species new to New Hampshire, with comments on the generation of calcareous-like habitat by base-poor rocks

Web-based tree crown condition evaluation training tool for urban and community forestry

Inter-laboratory variation in the chemical analysis of acidic forest soil reference samples from eastern North America

Mapping of hydropedologic spatial patterns in a steep headwater catchment

Linking water age and solute dynamics in streamflow at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA

Connecting non-timber forest products stakeholders to information and knowledge: A case study of an Internet web site

Survey studies how to reach primary hardwood producers with new information

Bat Activity in a Forest Landscape of central Massachusetts

Annual and seasonal variation and the effects of hydroperiod on benthic macroinvertebrates of seasonal forest (

Analysis of Web Site Activity and Technology Transfer Accomplishments

Ground-based digital imagery for tree stem analysis

Health of eastern North American sugar maple forests and factors affecting decline

Habitat-associated and temporal patterns of bat activity in a diverse forest landscape of southern New England, USA

Filters and templates: stonefly (Plecoptera) richness in Ouachita Mountains streams, U.S.A

Computerized training for the hardwood sawmill industry: The edging and trimmer trainer (version 3.0)

Potential impacts of global climate change on the hydrology and ecology of ephemeral freshwater systems of the forests of the northeastern United States

Diversity and stability in Mississippi stream fish assemblages

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