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Photos for estimating fuel loadings before and after prescribed burning in the upper coastal plain of the southeast

Although prescribed burning is common in the Southeastern United States, most fuel models apply to only western forests. This paper documents a fuel classification system that was developed for plantations of loblolly and longleaf pines for the Upper Coastal Plain region. Multivariate analysis of variance and discriminant function analysis were used to confirm eight...

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Eric R. Scholl; Thomas A. Waldrop

Year:

1999

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Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-26. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 29 p.

A test of the Forest Inventory and Analysis Program’s down woody material indicator for regional fuel estimation in the Southern Appalachian Mountains (PROJECT SO-F-06-01)

Both the National Fire Plan (http://199.134.225.50/nwcc/t2_wa4/ pdf/RuralAssistance.pdf) and the Healthy Forest Initiative (http://www.fs.fed.us/projects/ hfi/2003/august/documents/hfi-fact-sheet. pdf) call for reduction of hazardous fuels. Consequently, estimations of forest fuel loading at various scales become necessary. The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)...

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G. Geof Wang; Zhi-Ping Wang; Aaron D. Stottlemyer; Thomas A. Waldrop

Year:

2013

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In: Potter, Kevin M.; Conkling, Barbara L., eds. 2013. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2011. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-GTR-185. Asheville, NC: USDA-Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 143-146.

Criterion 6, indicator 33 : recovery or recycling of forest products as a percentage of total forest products consumption

This indicator shows the trend in recovering wood and paper for reuse in products in the United States. This reuse can hold down the need to harvest wood to meet U.S. consumption needs. The paper recycling rate (utilization rate in producing new paper) increased from 22% to 38% between 1970 and 1996, but then stabilized at 37% to 38% between 1996 and 2006. This rate...

Author(s):

Ken Skog; James Howard; Rebecca Westby

Year:

2011

Keywords:

Wood products, United States, forest products, wood waste, recycling, forest products industries, waste wood, recovery, indicators, supply balance, consumption, wood utilization, wood recycling, paper recycling, recovery rate, utilization rate, recycling rate

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Research Note FPL-RN-0321. Madison, WI : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 2011: 9 p.

Assessing urban forest effects and values, Chicago's urban forest

An analysis of trees in Chicago, IL, reveals that this city has about 3,585,000 trees with canopies that cover 17.2 percent of the area. The most common tree species are white ash, mulberry species, green ash, and tree-of-heaven. Chicago's urban forest currently stores about 716,000 tons of carbon...

Author(s):

David J. Nowak; Robert E. III Hoehn; Daniel E. Crane; Jack C. Stevens; Cherie Leblanc Fisher

Year:

2010

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urban forestry, ecosystem services, air pollution removal, carbon sequestration, tree value

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Resour. Bull. NRS-37. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 27 p.

U.S. forest products annual market review and prospects, 2004–2008

This report provides general and statistical information on forest products markets in terms of production, trade, consumption, and prices. The current state of the U.S. economy is described. Market developments are described for sawn softwood, sawn hardwood, softwood log trade, wood-based panels, paper and paperboard, fuelwood, and forest product prices. Policy...

Author(s):

James L. Howard; Rebecca Westby

Year:

2007

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Production, trade, prices

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Research Note FPL-RN-0305. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 8 pages

UFORE (i-Tree Eco) Analysis of Chicago

The USDA Forest Service and City of Chicago conducted a UFORE (now called i-Tree Eco) analysis of Chicago's urban forest in the summer of 2007. The UFORE (Urban FORest Effects) model developed by the Forest Service uses on-the-ground sampling data to understand the composition of on urban forest and calculate the forest's impacts on air pollution and energy...

Author(s):

Cherie LeBlanc Fisher; David Nowak

Year:

2010

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IAA Newsletter. 25(1): 5,8-9.

Republic of the Marshall Islands' forest resources, 2008

The Forest Inventory and Analysis program collected, analyzed, and summarized field data on 44 forested field plots for the 10 largest atoll groups in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI): Ailinglaplap, Arno, Jaluit, Kwajalein, Likiep, Majuro, Maloelap, Mili, Rongelap, and Wotje. Estimates of forest area, tree stem volume and biomass, the numbers of trees, tree...

Author(s):

Joseph A. Donnegan; Steven T. Trimble; Karness Kusto; Olaf Kuegler; Bruce A. Hiserote

Year:

2011

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RMI, Ailinglaplap, Arno, Jaluit, Kwajalein, Likiep, Majuro, Maloelap, Mili, Rongelap, Wotje, biomass, damage, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA), forest inventory, volume, land cover.

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Resour. Bull. PNW-RB-263. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 29 p.

Polishing the prism: improving wildfire mitigation planning by coupling landscape and social dimensions

Effectively addressing wildfire risk to communities on large multi-owner landscapes requires an understanding of the biophysical factors that influence risk, such as fuel loads, topography, and weather, and social factors such as the capacity and willingness for communities to engage in fire-mitigation activities. Biophysical and social processes often are disconnected...

Author(s):

Geoffrey Koch; Alan Ager; Jeff Kline; Paige Fischer

Year:

2016

Keywords:

Wildfire risk, community, mitigation, social network, fireshed.

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Science Findings 189. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 5 p.

Wind tunnel experiments to study chaparral crown fires

The present protocol presents a laboratory technique designed to study chaparral crown fire ignition and spread. Experiments were conducted in a low velocity fire wind tunnel where two distinct layers of fuel were constructed to represent surface and crown fuels in chaparral. Chamise, a common chaparral shrub, comprised the live crown layer. The dead fuel surface layer...

Author(s):

Jeanette Cobian-Iñiguez; AmirHessam Aminfar; Joey Chong; Gloria Burke; Albertina Zuniga; David R. Weise; Marko Princevac

Year:

2017

Keywords:

Chaparral, Wind Tunnel, Surface Fire, Crown Fire, Fuel Mass Loss, Flame Height

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Journal of Visualized Experiments. 129: e56591

Criterion 6, indicator 37 : average wage rates, annual average income, and annual injury rates in major forest employment categories

Average annual incomes for forest management and protection includes salaries for full-time permanent employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, which have increased from a median of $41,300 in 1992 to $48,200 in 2000, to $50,500 in 2006 (all in 2005$). Salary of full-time permanent employees in state forestry agencies in 1998, for entry level...

Author(s):

Kenneth Skog; Susan J. Alexander; John Bergstrom; Ken Cordell; Elizabeth Hill; James Howard; Rebecca Westby

Year:

2011

Keywords:

Officials, employees, salaries, forests, forestry, United States, wounds, injuries, trauma, forest products industry, employment, personnel, forestry workers, pulp and paper industry, labor market, income, wage rates, safety at work, accidents, non wood forest products, working conditions, injury rates

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Research note FPL-RN-0323. Madison, WI : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 11 p.

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Photos for estimating fuel loadings before and after prescribed burning in the upper coastal plain of the southeast

A test of the Forest Inventory and Analysis Program’s down woody material indicator for regional fuel estimation in the Southern Appalachian Mountains (PROJECT SO-F-06-01)

Criterion 6, indicator 33 : recovery or recycling of forest products as a percentage of total forest products consumption

Assessing urban forest effects and values, Chicago's urban forest

U.S. forest products annual market review and prospects, 2004–2008

UFORE (i-Tree Eco) Analysis of Chicago

Republic of the Marshall Islands' forest resources, 2008

Polishing the prism: improving wildfire mitigation planning by coupling landscape and social dimensions

Wind tunnel experiments to study chaparral crown fires

Criterion 6, indicator 37 : average wage rates, annual average income, and annual injury rates in major forest employment categories

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