Transcript NE-FIA TREE TAPER STUDY Current Status and Future Work

Northern Research Station
Forest Inventory and Analysis
ANALYTICAL SCIENCES GROUP UPDATE
FY2013
Randall Morin
2013 Northern FIA Regional Management Team Meeting
Portland, ME
TOPICS
State reporting
 Regional analyses
 National-scale projects
 P2+
 NWOS
 FIA Symposium
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STATE REPORTING
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Continue to produce ~5 comprehensive reports
and 24 annual reports each year. The format
and content has been static for a while –
change is coming:
 Good:
FSRET asking for standardized FIA reporting;
national annual template finished
 Better: Other possibilities – sub-regional or regional
annual reports
 Best: Web-based interactive graphics; no written
report; still generate tables via EVALIDator, etc.
NEW TEMPLATE
OLD TEMPLATE
STATE REPORTING – INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS
REGIONAL ANALYSIS - INVASIVES
REGIONAL ANALYSIS – PEST IMPACTS
Hemlock woolly adelgid
~8-30 km year
Ongoing studies: GM, BBD, EAB, and others
REGIONAL ANALYSIS – NORTHERN FOREST FUTURES
Water Stress Projections for the Northeastern and
Midwestern United States in 2060: Consequences for
Human and Fish Communities
WaSSI values > 1 indicate
demand exceeds supplies
Native fish species
diversity
REGIONAL ANALYSIS – NORTHERN FOREST FUTURES
Changes in forest habitat classes under alternative climate
and land-use change scenarios in the Northeast and
Midwest, USA
2010 forest land area
by and change by
habitat class and 50yr projections by
future scenarios
REGIONAL/NATIONAL ANALYSIS – RDS & RMAP
RMAP
Forest Ownership (Nelson et al. 2010): http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/36054
Historical forest density change (Liknes et al. 2013):
http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/43744
Per-state tree species distribution maps (Riemann et al. In Review)
RDS
Forest Ownership (Nelson et al. 2010):
http://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/Product/RDS-2010-0002/
Historical woodland density (Liknes et al. 2013):
http://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/Product/RDS-2013-0006/
Tree Species Basal Area (Wilson et al. 2013):
http://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/Product/RDS-2013-0013/
Forest Carbon Stocks (Wilson et al. 2013):
http://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/Product/RDS-2013-0004/
GLRI forest disturbance (Perry et al. In Progress)
Western Great Lakes stand age (Nelson et al. In Progress)
RMAP – STATE SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS
RMAP – STATE SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS
NATIONAL PROJECTS – FIA MAP ATLAS
SAMPLE FEATURE – ECONOMIC BENEFITS PROVIDED BY FORESTS
Employment as a fraction
as state economy
Mills in the Southeast
NATIONAL PROJECTS – FIA MAP ATLAS
Work continues with new collaboration tools
facilitating progress (SharePoint)
 WO publications shop in the loop to lay
groundwork for printing process
 Publication release date:
IUFRO meeting; Salt Lake City; October 2014
 ESRI and new AGOL guidelines will facilitate
data distribution
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NATIONAL PROJECTS – FIA BIOMASS STUDY
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Team composed of USFS, Industry, University.
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Two years of data collection complete, ~500
felled trees.
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Substantial legacy data has been obtained
from other studies, industry work, etc.
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In process of moving lab work out of
universities to SRS lab in Athens – reduce cost.
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Continual FIA funding is challenging; seeking
other funding sources.
P2+ FOREST HEALTH INDICATORS
2013 intensity at 12.5% of P2 sample (2X P3)
 3rd year of data (2013) collection is underway –
will be available in FIADB within 6 months of
last production plot date.
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Crowns – Dieback and Uncompacted Crown Ratio
Veg – Cover by height layer for various growth forms
(e.g., tree, shrub, forb, graminoid)
Regen – Browse, Site Limitations, Seedling by height
class, Seedling source (~ PRS protocols)
Invasives – Cover by species
DWM – Reduced to 2 transects per subplot
NATIONAL WOODLAND OWNERS SURVEY
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2011-2013 Completed
 Contacted
27,000 private landowners
 Preliminary
 First
cooperation rate: 47%
time remeasuring same sample points
 Unprecedented
 Estimation
 Methods
potential for trend analyses
approach has been updated
published in Journal of Forestry
 New automated table generation
NATIONAL WOODLAND OWNERS SURVEY
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2011-2013 In Process
 Complete
data processing (December)
 Distribute preliminary tables (January)
 Goal of 105 publications submitted in FY2014
 100
articles in landowner magazines, newsletters, and
other “gray’ literature
 Minimum of five peer-reviewed publications including
overview journal article and documentation GTR
 Incorporate
data into NIMS
 Vermont intensification
 Initiate planning for next iteration (2015?)
 New hire using outside funding
2012 FIA SYMPOSIUM
NRS-hosted December 4–6, 2012 in Baltimore,
MD
 12 plenary presentations, 128 general
presentations, 22 posters
 Proceedings published– 75 papers
 Participants from US, Canada, Mexico, Peru,
Philippines, Colombia
 4 papers published in recent issue MCFNS
(Liknes, Morin, Canham guest eds.)
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QUESTIONS ??