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Forest Inventory
& Analysis
Issue 11 / Winter 2007/2008
Inside:
A Message From
the Program Manager................ 1
Current Research Projects
at PNW-FIA.................................2
PNW-FIA Research Team
Members......................................3
Recent PNW-FIA
Publications..................................5
Safety Tip......................................6
Noteworthy Dates:
April 29, 2008: PNW-FIA Client
Meeting, Anchorage, AK.
May 13, 2008: PNW-FIA Client
Meeting, Sacramento, CA.
October 21-23, 2008:
FIA Science Symposium, Park
City, UT.
Forest Inventory and Analysis
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P.O. Box 3890
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http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fia/
A Message From the Program Manager
As a manager, it is easy to get caught up in a numbers game. We love to talk
about numbers like, “we measured over 2,000 plots last year, we will spend
almost $13 million this year, we will hire almost 100 field-going staff this year,
and on and on.” We also spend lots of time trying to get the word out about the
wonderful things the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program is doing.
We want our supporters to continue to let Congress know we are a vital active
program providing useable products. So I am especially excited to share with
you some snapshots of the products, techniques, tools, and research results we
have been working on. In fact, we have so many projects that we decided to
spread them out over two issues of the newsletter to give you more time to look
them over.
The research teams have set up five emphasis areas to categorize their work:
Land Cover and Land Use, Ecological Dynamics, Forest Health, Resource Inventory Techniques, and Forest Resource Assessment. We have included work
on the first three in this newsletter, and the latter two will be in the next. Popup
windows within the pdf file contain more information about each project. As
always, we would love to hear from you if there are research areas of interest
to you. Feel free to contact me, or better yet, go directly to the FIA investigator
listed by each project.
On other topics, the federal government did get funding for 2008. Nationally, FIA received a funding increase so we could continue to implement a few
new states and maintain the rest of our existing program. The Pacific Northwest
(PNW) Research Station is committed to conducting a first-time inventory in the
Republic of the Marshall Islands in 2008, so we are very excited about continuing our work in the Pacific Islands. We are also looking forward to next year
when we are hopeful that FIA will finally receive full funding and all states
(including Hawaii and interior Alaska) will be included in the base inventory.
— Sue Willits, PNW-FIA Program Manager
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Current Research Projects at PNW-FIA
In the past, most of our newsletters have included a lengthy
article about one area of research or analysis within our
program. For this and the following issue, we thought it
would be useful to show the full scope of ongoing research
and analysis. Projects under three of our five research
emphasis areas are included in this issue—click on
“Objective” or “How” to read a little more about each.
Emphasis Area 1: Land Cover and Land Use
Characterization and Estimation of Change
Oregon Land Use Change Update
FIA Investigator: Dave Azuma
Cooperative Investigator: Gary Lettman (Oregon
Department of Forestry)
Objective
How
Oak Woodland Owner Survey
FIA Investigator: Jeremy Fried
Cooperative Investigator: Lynn Huntsinger (University
of California, Berkeley)
Objective
How
Documenting Growth of Wildland-Urban Interface
in the Pacific Coast States
FIA Investigator: Jeremy Fried
Cooperative Investigators: Roger Hammer (Oregon State
University), Volker Radeloff (University of Wisconsin),
Alexa Shyphard (San Diego State University)
Objective
How
Emphasis Area 2: Ecological Dynamics
Wildlife-Habitat Analysis
FIA Investigator: Andy Gray
Cooperative Investigators: Brenda McComb (University of
Massachusetts), Stephanie Hart (Oregon State University),
Janet Ohmann (PNW Research Station, Corvallis)
Objective
How
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Coastal Alaska Growth, Regeneration,
and Mortality Assessment
FIA Investigators: Tara Barrett and Kevin Dobelbower
Objective
How
Emphasis Area 3: Forest Health
Distribution and Abundance of Invasive Plants
FIA Investigator: Andy Gray
Cooperative Investigators: Katie Barndt and Sarah Reichard
(University of Washington), Tom Kaye (Institute for Applied
Ecology), Aaron Liston (Oregon State University)
Objective
How
Sudden Oak Death (SOD) in California
FIA Investigators: Jeremy Fried and Demetrios Gatziolis
Objective
How
Effects of Climate Change on Wildland Fire
FIA Investigator: Jeremy Fried
Cooperative Investigators: Scientists at the University of
California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory.
Objective
How
Dead Wood in Budworm-Affected Stands
FIA Investigator: Dave Azuma
Objective
How
Critical Loads of Nitrogen as Indicated by
Lichen Communities
FIA Investigator: Sarah Jovan
Cooperative Investigators: Mark Fenn (Pacific Southwest
Research Station), Doug Glavich (Siuslaw National Forest,
PNW Region) and Linda Geiser (PNW Region Air Program)
Objective
How
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Old-Growth in the Oregon Coast Range
FIA Investigators: Andy Gray and Vicente Monleon
Cooperative Investigator: Bill Emmingham (Oregon State
University)
Objective
How
Carbon Flux Assessment for a 1990 Baseline
FIA Investigators: Jeremy Fried and Xiaoping Zhou
Objective
How
Investigating effects of climate change on wildland fire. Photo by Tom Iraci.
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PNW-FIA Research Team Members
Portland FIA Environmental Analysis
and Research Team
Jeremy Fried, Team Leader
David Azuma, Research Forester
Demetrios Gatziolis, Research Forester
Andy Gray, Research Ecologist
Vicente Monleon, Mathematical Statistician
Portland FIA Inventory Reporting Team
Sally Campbell, Team Leader
Joe Donnegan, Ecologist
Glenn Christensen, Forester
Karen Waddell, Forester
Sarah Jovan, Research Ecologist (OSU Postdoctoral Fellow)
Anchorage FIA Analysis and Research Team
Tara Barrett, Team Leader
Hans-Erik Andersen, Research Forester
Beth Schulz, Research Ecologist
Kenneth Winterberger, Forester
For information on how to contact the researchers above,
please visit:
http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fia/contact/fiaemployees_team.
shtml
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Impacts of Pollution on Western Oregon Lichen
Communities
FIA Investigator: Sarah Jovan
Cooperative Investigator: Bruce McCune (Oregon State
University)
Objective
How
West Coast Lichen Community Analysis
FIA Investigator: Sarah Jovan
Objective
How
Forest Health in Coastal Alaska
FIA Investigator: Beth Schulz
Objective
How
Alaska Yellow-Cedar Status and Change
FIA Investigator: Tara Barrett
Cooperative Investigators: Paul Hennon (PNW Research
Station, Juneau), Tongass National Forest, the Nature
Conservancy
Objective
How
In our next newsletter, we will describe projects in the following
two Emphasis Areas:
• Resource Inventory Techniques Research and Development
• Forest Resource Assessment, Characterization, and
Estimation of Change
Analyzing lichen community data.
Photo by Sarah Jovan.
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Tracking changes in forest land and land use. Photo by Dave Azuma.
Determining invasive plant distribution
and abundance. Photo by Walter Foss.
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Recent PNW-FIA Publications
Links to articles on the Web follow each publication.
Andersen, H.-E.; Breidenbach, J. 2007. Statistical properties of mean
stand biomass estimators in a LIDAR-based double sampling forest
survey design. Finland: ISPRS workshop on laser scanning 2007
and silviLaser 2007. IAPRS. XXXVI (Part 3 / W52): 8–13.
Kelly, M.; Ueda, K.; Allen-Diaz, B. Considerations for ecological reconstruction of historic vegetation: analysis of the spatial
uncertainties in the California Vegetation Type Map dataset. Plant
Ecology. 194(1): 37–49.
http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2007_andersen002.pdf
http://www.springerlink.com/content/ev8187210l8600p2/fulltext.pdf
Andersen, H.-E.; Reutebuch, S.E.; McGaughey, R.J. 2006. Active
remote sensing. In: Shao, G.; Reynolds, K.M., eds. Computer applications in sustainable forest management: including perspectives
on collaboration and integration. The Netherlands: SpringerVerlag: 43–66.
Kline, J.D.; Azuma, D.L. 2007. Evaluating forest land development
effects on private forestry in eastern Oregon. Res. Pap. PNW-RP572. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Pacific Northwest Research Station. 18 p.
http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2006_andersen002.pdf
Barrett, T.M.; Zurring, H.R.; Christopher, T. 2007. Interpretation of
forest characteristics from computer-generated images. In: Landscape and Urban Planning. 80(4): 396–403.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V914MH8B5V-1&_user=4250274&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_
sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000052423&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=4
250274&md5=f500c940df0f621cdd22d9599706f140
Brandeis, T.J.; Kuegler, O.; Knowe, S.A. 2005. Equations for merchantable volume for subtropical moist and wet forests of Puerto
Rico. Res. Pap. SRS-39. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 15 p.
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/rp/rp_srs039.pdf
Campbell, S.J.; Wanek, R.; Coulston, J.W. 2007. Ozone injury in
west coast forests: 6 years of monitoring. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNWGTR-722. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 53 p.
http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr722.pdf
Christensen, G.A.; Dunham, P.; Powell, D.C.; Hiserote, B. 2007.
Forest resources of the Umatilla National Forest. Resour. Bull.
PNW-RB-253. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 38 p.
http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_rb253.pdf
Gray, A.N. 2007. Distribution and abundance of invasive plants in
Pacific Northwest forests. In: Harrington, T.B.; Reichard, S.H., tech.
eds. 2007. Meeting the challenge: invasive plants in Pacific Northwest ecosystems. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-694. Portland, OR:
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest
Research Station. 166 p.
http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr694.pdf
Hammer, R.B.; Radeloft, V.C.; Fried, J.S.; Stewart, S.L. 2007. Wildland-urban interface housing growth during the 1990s in California, Oregon, and Washington. International Journal of Wildland
Fire. 16: 255–265.
http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WF05077.htm
http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_rp572.pdf
McGaughey, R.J.; Reutebuch, S.E.; Andersen, H.E. 2007. Creation
and use of LIDAR intensity images for natural resource applications. In: Proceedings of the 21st biennial workshop on aerial
photography, videography, and high-resolution digital imagery for
resource assessment. Bethesda, MD: American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 12 p.
Meyer, M.; North, M.; Gray, A.; Zald, H.S. J. 2007. Influence of soil
thickness on stand characteristics in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer
forest. Plant and Soil: 294(1–2): 113–123.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/a761741116221282/fulltext.pdf
Schroeder, T.A.; Cohen, W.B.; Song, C.; Canty, M.J.; Yang, Z. 2006.
Radiometric correction of multi-temporal Landsat data for characterization of early successional forest patterns in western Oregon.
Remote Sensing of Environment. 103: 16–26.
http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/27231
Schroeder, T.A.; Cohen, W.B.; Yang, Z. 2007. Patterns of forest
regrowth following clearcutting in western Oregon as determined
from a Landsat time-series. Forest Ecology and Management.
243(2–3): 259–273.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T6X4NJX46B-3&_user=4250274&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_
sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000052423&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=4
250274&md5=93c1a9e6c3945c17e6fd695c222bd5eb.
Song, C.; Schroeder, T.A.; Cohen, W.B. 2007. Predicting temperate
conifer forest successional stage distributions with multitemporal
Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 106: 228–237.
http://www.unc.edu/~csong/Song07-RSE.pdf
Temesgen, H.; Hann, D.W.; Monleon, V.J. 2007. Regional heightdiameter equations for major tree species of southwest Oregon.
Western Journal of Applied Forestry. 22(3): 213–219.
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You can use this simple “ABC” method to see if CPR is necessary.
A—For airway. Open the airway. Make sure the victim’s tongue is down and not
closing the airway.
B—For breathing. Decide whether or not the victim is breathing. If the victim is not
breathing, give two full breaths.
C—For circulation. Check the victim’s pulse to see if chest compressions will be
necessary. If there is a pulse, continue to give the victim breaths. If there is no
pulse, begin the actual procedure.
The steps to the CPR procedure are as follows:
1. Use 30 chest compressions alternating with two breaths. While giving the compressions, count “one, two, three. . .”.
2. Repeat the cycle four times.
3. Check for pulse and breathing. If the victim is still not breathing, and their heart is
not beating, continue with the procedure until you are too exhausted to continue or
until help arrives.
For more information, please visit: www.americancpr.com
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The victim should be lying flat on his or her back.
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If you come across a victim, first gently shake them, and ask them if they are OK.
Decide if they are sleeping or truly unconscious. If they are unconscious, call for help,
and position the victim. Take care while rolling the victim over.
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All field crew members receive CPR training annually. However—as with most
learned skills—the less you use the knowledge, the less likely it is to be retained.
Hopefully, you haven’t had to use CPR skills recently. So, take a few moments to
refresh your memory regarding proper CPR procedures. Here’s a quick outline:
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