FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE VOL. 12 NO.

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March 2011
Welcome to this edition of Forest Information Update.
Kind regards, Mike Smith, Editor and Director info@southem.com

INTRODUCTION
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agencies and individuals working in the natural resources field.

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PODCAST: EXPANDING FORESTRY GIS KNOWLEDGE: Peter Eredics, Peter

Eredics discusses the ERSI Forestry GIS Solutions Conference, talking return on
investments, expanding GIS knowledge and field work. Go to:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/fiueredics

ESRI CONFERENCE DETAILS - As the leader in GIS technology, ESRI offers

innovative solutions that will help you create, visualize, analyze, and present natural
resources information better and more clearly. Working with location information, ESRI's
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US or 909-793-2853, ext. 1-1235. Or go to the web site at:
http://tinyurl.com/fiu4esri

NEW FORESTRY COUNTRY REPORTS NOW AVAILABLE

Southern Hemisphere forestry countries continue to develop huge new forestry
resources and the special Southem Country Reports have been updated and is now
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America; Australia and New Zealand; and South Africa. The reports provide new details
on the geography, politics and economics of each country; along with industry details
and trade updates – all at a reasonable price. For more details, go to:
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. Nepalese Foresters - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nepaleseforesters/
. Wetlandfriends – see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wetlandfriends and
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateConcern/
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INPUT - This month's input comes from: Gyde Lund, Krishna Devkota, Gary Krupnick,
Nelson Wong, Lance Olsen, Tina Etherington, Gandhiv Kafle, Artur Gil, Ross Mayhew,
Infosylva, IUFRO, José A. Sobrino, Mike Robinson and many more. Thank you all for
sharing your information!

HAVE YOU HEARD? NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

[Any feedback or additions to news items are welcome – email me directly or go to the
Linked group]

. UN-SPIDER SPACEAID - Space-based information for the earthquake in Japan and

the tsunami in the Pacific Region.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuunspider

. NEW LEADERS BRING DEEP EXPERIENCE TO WRI PROGRAM - Two

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international forest experts, with more than 45 years combined experience, have joined
the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) People and Ecosystems Program.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuleaders

. AMAZON DEFORESTATION UP A THOUSAND PER CENT - A newly disclosed

report from the Amazon Institute of People and the Environment (IMAZON) reveals that
175 square kilometers (68 mi²) of forest were cleared this past December, compared
with just 16 km² (6 mi²) reported last year for December 2009, a rise of 994 percent. Go
below for links to the original in Portuguese and the article in English at TreeHugger.
The TreeHugger article:
http://tinyurl.com/fiuthamazon3
The Amazon Institute of People and the Environment (IMAZON) report in pdf:
http://tinyurl.com/fiuamazon3

. FORESTRY REPORT CHRONICLES LAND-USE CHANGES IN OREGON - A new

report says 98 percent of Oregon’s land designated in 1974 as non-federal forest,
agricultural and farmland remains in that use today. Unlike many other states, Oregon
has held onto almost all of its resource land during recent decades of rapid economic
growth and population expansion, according to the Oregon Forestry Department and
U.S. Forest Service researchers who recently published the updated “Forests, Farms
and People” study.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuchonicles

. OREGON FORESTRY DEPT OFFERS EXPANDED FORESTRY ATLAS - The

Oregon Department of Forestry has added seven presentations to the online Oregon
Forest Atlas, which illustrates how economics, conservation laws, insect, disease and
wildfire have impacted Oregon forests over the past few decades.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuoregan

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, Mike Smith.

HELP!

FEEDBACK

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE – “Pay it forward!” If you can help with any of the requests
below, please take the time to do so. Your kind assistance will be appreciated and
rewarded.

. BEST GPS/CAMERA COMBO - Aurelie Shapiro of WWF Deutschland writes via the
APPLIED-GIS-RS list: “Can someone please recommend the best combination GPS
and camera? I want to be able to send a GPS/Camera with my colleagues who travel to

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the field to take good pictures that can be geocoded, and also used for ground-truthing.
I.e. Here is a deforestation event that can be tied to an image. Some high end GPS
have poor cameras, are the cameras with GPS considered good enough for GIS
groundtruthing? Can someone suggest a good combination of both that would be easy
for the non-techny person to use? So I send it off with someone ready to go, and they
can turn it on (with minimal input - no need to mess with projections and data types),
take pictures, and then a GIS technician can capture all the data, map it, use it? Many
thanks, Aurelie.”
aurelie.shapiro@wwf.de

. SEEKING SOME EQUATIONS FOR BIOMASS ESTIMATION - Arun Dhakal writes

via the Nepalese Foresters group: “Dear all - I am looking for some alometric Equations
to estimate the biomass (leaf, stem, branch, bark and root) of the following species in
Nepalese context: 1. Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Masala); 2. Melia azedarach (Bakaino);
and, 3. Anthocephallus chinensis (Kadam). If any of us knows about it, please...Your
support is highly appreciated. Arun Dhakal.”
arun_dhakal2004@yahoo.com

. CAN REMOTE SENSING DETECT NUCLEAR RADIATION? - David Meek writes via
the Applied GIS and RS list: “Hi all, A non-academic question of interest given current
events: Is anyone aware whether remote sensing sensors are capable of detecting non-
thermal nuclear radiation (i.e. that from Japan's Fukushima Dain reactor)? If so, which
sensors have been utilized previously? Thanks, David.”
meekdav@GMAIL.COM

. WOULD FIRE PREVENTION WIRELESS DEVICES HAVE A MARKET IN CARBON

FORESTRY? Lorenzo Martelletti asked via the Carbon Forestry LinkedIn Group: “I am
in connection with an Italian company that provides innovative fire prevention wireless
devices that alert (web, sms) when the probability of a wildfire increases over a certain
threshold. I think the problem is really important since A/R carbon credits are not issued
if trees are burnt due to wildfires and are not in place at monitoring (usually each 4-5
years). This is a great risk for project developers (and also for upfront credit buyers). By
the other hand a human monitoring is very cheap in developing countries, although it
may not be efficient and it's effective only when the fire starts. Would there be a market
for such devices in carbon forestry? What the adequate monitoring cost per hectare
should be in your opinion?”
info@treedom.it

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://lists.topica.com/lists/wood
http://stateforesters.org/news.html
http://www.canadian-forests.com/job.html
http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/forest.html
http://www.devnetjobs.org
http://www.foresters.org/portal

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 http://www.forestryusa.com/jobs.htm
http://www.HigherEdJobs.com
http://www.postdocjobs.com/jobseekers/search_fellowships.shtml
http://www.safnet.org/careercenter/classifieds.cfm
http://www.careerjet.com
http://www.mygreeneducation.com/
http://www.getforestryjobs.net/

. CENTER FOR TROPICAL FOREST SCIENCE GRANTS - The CTFS Grants

Program provides opportunities for senior researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and
graduate students to use existing CTFS plots to conduct research with scientists
affiliated with them. Social scientists and natural scientists are encouraged to apply.
Grants are awarded annually. Submissions will be accepted yearly. The next deadline
for applications is 1 April 2011. Decisions will be made approximately three months after
the deadline.
http://tinyurl.com/fictfs

. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WILDLAND

FIRE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM 2011 - In an effort to continue to promote the
scholarly pursuits and graduate level training within the global wildland fire community,
in 2011 the IAWF will again be awarding two graduate-level scholarships to IAWF
members who are Master of Science (MSc) or Doctoral (PhD) students studying all
wildland fire or wildland fire related topics. Applications are encouraged from students
studying any aspect of wildland fire be it from the perspective of physical, ecological or
social science to less traditional subject areas as well: IWAF is looking through this
scholarship to recognize and support any type of research relevant to the global
wildland fire community. For more details, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/fiuiawf

. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN REMOTE SENSING AND PATTERN

RECOGNITION AT IGN – PARIS - Road detection and characterization in
mountainous forested areas using 3D lidar point clouds. A post doc is available in the
MATIS lab at IGN in Paris, France. For more information, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/fiuroad

HAVE YOU READ?

Obtain from your local library or from the sources provided.

THE PUBLICATION LIST

. Manual of European Environmental Policy. This Earthscan publication was recently

the recipient of the European Information Association’s 2011 Award for European
Information Sources. The Manual, previously published as a loose-leaf printed
reference, was re-launched as an online product in 2010. It has been extensively

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restructured to reflect the changing nature and development of European environmental
policy.
http://tinyurl.com/fiumanual

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

BIODIVERSITY

. William Y. Brown. Opinion: Codes of life. Unless funding becomes

available, our collections of natural specimens will be lost forever — and
with them Earth's biodiversity. April 22, 2010 06:44.
http://tinyurl.com/fiucodes

. Kealakehe RestorationŠHui La‚au Kama‚aina - A dryland forest cultural ecology

project within the Villages of La‚i‚ pua. The Hawai’I Forest Industry Association
Newsletter, March 2011, Page 4.
heather.hfia@hawaiiforest.org

BIOFUEL/BIOMASS

. Edward M. Rubin. Genomics of cellulosic biofuels. Nature 454, 841-845 (14 August
2008).
http://tinyurl.com/fiugenome

. David J. Poole. Continuous analysis of elemental emissions from a biofuel

gasifier. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. Issue 5, 2007.
http://tinyurl.com/fiugasifier

CLASSIFICATION/MAPPING

. Wagh, Meghanad D.; Guzide, Osman. Mapping Cycles and Trees on Wrap-Around
Butterfly Graphs. SIAM Journal on Computing 2005-01-01.
http://www.scitopia.org/scitopia/result-list/fullRecord:mapping/

. Caloca, Alejandra A.; Mora, Franz; Ramirez, Boris E. Mapping and characterization
of urban forest in Mexico City. Proceedings of SPIE 2004-02-13.
http://verona.fi-p.unam.mx/boris/articulos/2003/urbangreen.pdf

. Markus Möller. Placing soil-genesis and transport processes into a landscape

context: A multiscale terrain-analysis approach. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil
Science. Volume 171, Issue 3, June, 2008, Pages: 419–430.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jpln.200625039/abstract

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CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON

. Stella I. Pytharouli and Rebecca J. Lunn. Microseismicity illuminates open

fractures in the shallow crust. (Using microearthquakes to evaluate potential carbon
sequestration sites.) Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) paper
10.1029/2010GL045875, 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/fiucrust

. Gregory P. Asner, Scott R. Loarie and Ursula Heyder. Combined effects of climate
and land-use change on the future of humid tropical forests. Conservation Letters.
Vol 3, Issue 6 (pages 395–403). December 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuhumid

INVENTORY/MONITORING

. Ying Dong; Kaku, I.; Jiafu Tang. Inventory management in reverse logistics: a
survey. Services Systems and Services Management, 2005. Proceedings of ICSSSM
'05. 2005 International Conference on 2005-01-01.
http://tinyurl.com/fiulogistics

. Waldmann, K. H. Inventory Control in Randomly Varying Environments. SIAM

Journal on Applied Mathematics 44, pp. 657-666 (10 pages).
http://tinyurl.com/fiucontrol2

. Perry J. Hardin and David G. Long. Integrating reconstructed scatterometer and

advanced very high resolution radiometer data for tropical forest inventory. Opt.
Eng. 34, 3146 (1995); doi:10.1117/12.213656.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuscatter

MISCELLANEOUS

. Annelie Carlsbecker et al. The DAL10 gene from Norway spruce (Picea abies)
belongs to a potentially gymnosperm-specific subclass of MADS-box genes and
is specifically active in seed cones and pollen cones. Evolution & Development. Vol
5 Issue 6, 551-561, November 2003.
http://tinyurl.com/fiudal10

REMOTE SENSING/GIS

. Yao Wan-qiang Li Chong-gui. Mobile GIS System for Forest Resources Inventory.
Paper ex Multimedia Technology (ICMT), 2010 International Conference. Issue Date :
29-31 Oct. 2010.

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http://tinyurl.com/fiumobile2

. Hyyppa, H.J. Hyyppa, J.M. Effects of stand size on the accuracy of remote
sensing-based forest inventory. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE
Transactions on Issue Date : Dec 2001. Vol 39, Issue:12.
http://tinyurl.com/fiusize

. The Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Recent Advances in

Quantitative Remote Sensing: RAQRS II (all files in pdf format).
-RAQRS 2002: Proceedings book (134 MB)
http://tinyurl.com/fiuraqrsbook1

-RAQRS 2006: Proceedings book (178MB)

http://tinyurl.com/fiuraqrsbook2

-RAQRS 2010: Cover

http://tinyurl.com/fiuraqrscover

RESOURCE ANALYSIS/MODELING

. Hass, J. E. (1972), Modeling problems and problem avoidance in water resource

management, Water Resour. Res., 8(3), 785–789, doi:10.1029/WR008i003p00785.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuavoid

. Michael R. Kearney, Brendan A. Wintle, Warren P. Porter. Correlative and

mechanistic models of species distribution provide congruent forecasts under
climate change. Conservation Letters. Vol 3, Issue 3, pages 203-213, June 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/fiumechanistic

. J K Shuman and H H Shugart. Evaluating the sensitivity of Eurasian forest

biomass to climate change using a dynamic vegetation model. Environmental
Research Letters 2009 4 045024.
http://tinyurl.com/fiueurasian

. Tobias Kuemmerle et al. Post-Soviet farmland abandonment, forest recovery,

and carbon sequestration in western Ukraine. Global Change Biology. Volume 17,
Issue 3, pages 1335–1349, March 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuabandonment

. Piotr Banaszczak, Jerzy Tumiłowicz - Uszkodzenia mrozowe drzew i krzewów w

Arboretum w Rogowie SGGW podczas zimy 2002/03 roku. Frost damages of Trees
and shrubs in the Warsaw Agricultural University Arboretum in Rogów during
winter 2002/03. Rocznik Dendrologiczny, Vol 52, 2004.
http://tinyurl.com/fiudrzew

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SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT

. Imai N, Samejima H, Langner A, Ong RC, Kita S, et al. 2009. Co-Benefits of

Sustainable Forest Management in Biodiversity Conservation and Carbon
Sequestration. PLoS ONE 4(12): e8267. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008267.
http://tinyurl.com/fiucobenefit

. Onil Banerjee, Alexander J. Macpherson, and Janaki Alavalapati. Toward a Policy of

Sustainable Forest Management in Brazil: A Historical Analysis. The Journal of
Environment & Development June 2009 18: 130-153, doi:10.1177/1070496509333567.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuhistorical

. Building a sustainable future - MSU leads global effort to study link between people
and planet.
http://tinyurl.com/fiufuture

. Doreen S. Boyd; Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management. The

Geographical Journal, Vol. 170, 2004.
http://tinyurl.com/fiu4remote

CAPTURED ON VIDEO
Download videos from the web or from the sources provided.

. Indigenous peoples and sustainable forest management (English subtitles). Read

the Skype interview with Macuxi indigenous leader Euclides Pereira, spokesman for the
indigenous population worldwide at the XIII World Forestry Congress, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuindigenous

YOU'RE INVITED!
For a more complete listing of upcoming inventory and monitoring related meetings,
see:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infomeets/
http://www.agnic.org/mtg/index.html
http://www.asprs.org/asprs/meetings/calendar.html
http://www.conferencealerts.com/
http://www.efi.int/events
http://www.efi.int/portal/news___events/events/event_calendar/
http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/resource/frames/agenda.html
http://www.fao.org/forestry/for/forc/free/education/courses.asp
http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar-of-meetings/
http://www.safnet.org/meetings/index.cfm
www.conferencealerts.com

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. 8th Southern Forestry and Natural Resources GIS Conference – Peter Bettinger
writes: We are scheduling the 8th conference in this series for Dec. 11-13, 2011 in
Athens, GA. Please send any ideas regarding practical "software updates" or "how to"
presentations to me (pbettinger@warnell.uga.edu)

. Call for papers: Spatio-temporal monitoring and modelling of terrestrial

vegetation functions (EGU2011). the thematic session of the European Geosciences
Union General Assembly EGU2011 (03 April - 08 April 2011, Vienna, Austria
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2011/home.html

. Call for Abstracts: Disease and Insect Resistance in Forest Trees. Fourth
International Workshop on the Genetics of Host-Parasite “Interactions in Forestry”. First
Announcement and Call for Papers, July 31 - August 5, 2011, Valley River Inn, Eugene,
Oregon, USA. It has been>30 years since this group last met.
http://ucanr.org/sites/tree_resistance_2011conference/_

. 20-26 March 2011. Winter School 2011: Making Values Work – Exploring Multiple
Perspectives in Understanding the Valuation of Forest Ecosystems. Freiburg,
Germany. Organizers: EFICENT-OEF, FOPER II. A summer school will be organized in
Croatia in late September 2011.
http://www.eficent.efi.int/portal/events/efi_winter___summer_school/

. 22-26 March 2011. Symposium on Ecosystem level Approaches to

Sustainability. Burgos, Castilla y Leon, Spain.
http://www.globalforum2011.net/content/seminar

23-25 March 2011. UGA Center for Forestry Business – Timberland Investment
Conference. The Ritz Carlton, Reynolds Plantation, Lake Oconee, Georgia, USA. Focus
on: Global Wood Markets, Trade and Timberland Investment.
http://uga.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?
u=8bfcbe5ee69e147c953b5cceb&id=c2f85d9544&e=8e5bd09086

. 2-8 April 2011. IX International Rangeland Congress - IRC2011. “Diverse

Rangelands for a Sustainable Society”. April 02 to April 08, 2011. Rosario, Santa Fe,
Argentina.
www.irc2011.com.ar

. 3-8 April 2011. Wildfires, Weather and Climate. Vienna, Austria. Session of the
European Geosciences Union, General Assembly, 2011, Natural Hazards programme.
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/6665

. 3-5 April 2011. International Symposium: Recent Advances in Land Owner

Extension. Kuusamo, Finland. IUFRO 3.08.00,
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-3/30000/30800/activities/
Contact: John Herbohn, j.herbohn(at)uq.edu.au

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http://www.metla.fi/hanke/3521/symposium/

. 10-15 April 2011. ISRSE 2011 - Abstract Submission Now Open. 34th International
Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment. Sydney convention and Exhibition
Centre. The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring. Email:
isrse34@arinex.com.au

. 11-15 April 2011. II Semena Florestal Brasileira, Expor Forest Brasil and II
Encontro Basileiro de Silvicultua. Contact:
www.expoforest.com.br
contato@expoforest.com.br

. 30 April-5 May 2011. Preliminary information on the 15th Brazilian Remote Sensing
Symposium (XV SBSR). Curitiba, April 30th to May 5th 2011) is available at
http://www.dsr.inpe.br/sbsr2011/enindex.html

. 1-5 May 2011. Ride On The Geospatial Revolution - The American Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
http://www.asprs.org/milwaukee2011/index.html

. 2-5 May 2011. Joint Conference ANZIF (New Zealand Institute of Forestry and
Institute of Forests of Australia). Title: Pacific Forestry. Marking part of Australasian
Foresters’ celebrations of the ‘International Year of Forests’ 2011. Sky City, Auckland,
New Zealand. For more details, go to:
http://www.anzifconference.co.nz/

. 5 May 2011 - Call for Papers - Brazilian Symposium of Remote Sensing (INPE)
2011. Deadline for Papers Submission: November 10th 2010.
http://www.dsr.inpe.br/sbsr2011/

. 16-20 May 2011. The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute is offering the
following course: An Introduction to the use of ArcGIS in Conservation and Wildlife
Management.
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ConservationGIS/GIS_training/introd
uction/

. 18-20 May 2011. 13th International Symposium on Legal Aspects of European

Forest Sustainable Development. Kaunas, Lithuania.
IUFRO 9.06.00 (former 6.13.00), Contact: R. Deltuvas, Romualdas.Deltuvas(at)lzuu.lt.
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-9/90000/90600/activities/

. May 2011. 5th International Wildland Fire Conference Wildfire 2011. Sun City,
Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa.
www.wildfire2011.org/

. 2-6 May. BioVeg 2011. 8th International Congress on Plant Biotechnology. Bioplantas

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Center, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba.
http://bioveg.bioplantas.cu/Default.aspx

. 11 May 2010. PwC Global Forest & Paper Industry Conference. Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada.
http://www.pwc.com/en_GX/gx/forest-paper-packaging/events/23rd-fpp-
conference/transformation-through-innovation.jhtml

. A Mixed Effects Modelling Course in Halifax, Canada. June 2011. For details, see:
http://www.highstat.com/statscourse.htm

. 28-29 July, 2011 - Remote sensing, natural hazards and environmental change
conference. The conference is designed to initiate informal discussion and paper
presentation in two areas that are significant for the Asia Pacific Region and especially
Southeast Asia.
http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/conferences/RSNHEC/index.html

8-12 August 2011. The Conference of the Asia Oceania Geosciences (AOGS),
Taipei. A session on “Groundwater System: Social and Health issues” to consider
various aspects of groundwater: Exploration, Water quality, Health and Social issues.
For more information, including submissions, go to:
http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2011/public.asp?page=abstract.htm

WHILE SURFING THE WEB…INTERESTING LINKS

For a complete listing of links go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forest_information_update/

. Above-Ground Woody Biomass Map of Africa 2000.

http://www.whrc.org/mapping/pantropical/carbonmap2000.html

. Map Information page at British Columbia’s Ministry of Forests, Mines and

Lands.
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/mof/mapsfc.htm

. “From the life of a tree” – a forestal crime story. Four pictures from a recent walk
in the new neighbourhood, arranged as a series. All with Leica M8 + Ultron 28/1.9.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1038&message=37877391

. The Weeks Act - March 1, 2011, marks the centennial of the Weeks Act — the
"organic act" of the eastern national forests. Signed into law by President William
Howard Taft, the Weeks Act permitted the federal government to purchase private land
in order to protect the headwaters of rivers and watersheds in the eastern United States

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and called for fire protection efforts through federal, state, and private cooperation.
http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Policy/WeeksAct/index.aspx

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