[Forest-list] Forest Information Update Vol 13 No 8 - August 2012

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FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE VOL. 13 NO. 8
August 2012

Welcome to this edition of FIU – 

Our relationships with forests are highlighted in this edition. The discussion around the merits of impacts of fire on natural resources is loaded with views from managers, policy-makers, lobbyists and just plain citizens. Articles on the topic are included below. In the Miscellaneous section below find out how forests are increasingly seen as one way as reducing the large burden on national public health budgets through prevention. Biodiversity includes a FAO Progress report of 2011 on the data availability of the two Nutrition Indicators for Biodiversity.

Please find below our latest batch of articles, listing, meetings and web sites for the natural resource sector. Please feel free to contact me for more information. 

Kind regards
Mike Smith, Editor and Director info at southem.com 

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LASER TECHNOLOGY, INC. DARES ALL ARCPAD USERS – TAKE THE LaserGIS CHALLENGE
Laser Technology, Inc. (LTI), the designer and manufacturer of the most popular line of mapping lasers and rangefinders, is daring all ArcPad® users to take a GIS mobile mapping challenge. This new campaign was officially announced at the opening day of Esri’s User Conference, July 25th 2012. The challenge is to test out an LTI TruPulse® 360 mapping laser and the LaserGIS® ArcPad® extension completely risk free without any upfront costs or obligation. This campaign is designed to persuade GIS professionals to simply "try" something that will prove to save time and money and offer an immediate ROI. Find out more at:
http://www.lasertech.com/Laser-Technology-Dares-All-ArcPad-Users-to-Take-the-LaserGIS-Challenge.aspx

ESRI FORESTRY - The 2012 Esri Forestry GIS Conference was a great success, helped by the willingness of participants to share their expertise. We look forward to seeing you at next year's event, May 14–16, 2013 in Redlands, California. For more information, contact:
forestryinfo at esri.com
View photos from the event at:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1977293@N21/pool/

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INPUT - This month's input comes from: Gary Krupnick, Nelson Wong, Lance Olsen, Tina Etherington, Gandhiv Kafle, Artur Gil, Ross Mayhew, Selva Escalera, Colin, Infosylva, IUFRO, Hakim M. Abdi, Benktesh Sharma and many more. Thank you all for sharing your information!

HAVE YOU HEARD? NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

THOMSON REUTERS PARTNERS WITH USFS TO MAP LAND RIGHTS IN WEST AFRICA - The U.S. Forest Service has selected Thomson Reuters to map and document land rights in West Africa as part of an effort to promote sustainable use of natural resources, protect the environment, and create a source of income for the rural poor in the threatened Upper Guinean Tropical Forest.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/19/idUS180713+19-Jul-2012+HUG20120719

U.K. FORESTRY COMMISSION AWARDS DATA AND COMMS CONTRACT TO LEVEL 3 
Level 3 Communications has been awarded a four-year contract with the Forestry Commission, the UK government department responsible for the protection and expansion of Britain's forests and woodlands. Level 3 will deliver data and voice network, collaboration and broadband services to help the commission improve efficiency across the organisation, support an increasingly mobile workforce and achieve compliance with the Public Services Network (PSN) standards.
http://level3.mediaroom.com/2012-08-14-Level-3-to-Transform-U.K.-Forestry-Commissions-IT-Communications-Infrastructure

REFORESTATION WILL HELP TO CURB DESERTIFICATION SAYS FORESTRY DIRECTOR - The acting director of the Department of Forestry in Gambia has underscored that more reforestation efforts through tree planting will help fight against desertification that is 'threatening the country.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201208210644.html

IN PICTURES: NIGER'S HUNGER-FIGHTING TREES - Something new is taking root in a small and dusty corner of western Niger, reports the BBC. The unremarkable looking moringa tree has become a frontline weapon to fight the recurring droughts that have hit the West African nation. See the story in pictures at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18412127

CAMOUFLAGE OF MOTHS: MOTHS ACTIVELY SEEK OUT BEST HIDING PLACES - Moths are iconic examples of camouflage. Their wing coloration and patterns are shaped by natural selection to match the patterns of natural substrates, such as a tree bark or leaves, on which the moths rest. But, according to recent findings, the match in the appearance was not all in their invisibility. ScienceDaily report:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120731123521.htm


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.

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FACULTY POSITION IN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES (CLOSES OCTOBER 15, 2012) - The Department of Wood Science in the Faculty of Forestry at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada invites applications for a tenure-track Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) to begin in July 2013. We will consider exceptional candidates in areas of manufacturing technologies who can advance fundamental knowledge and practice in the processing of wood and wood composites. The candidate should have demonstrated excellence in original research.
http://www.forestry.ubc.ca/2012/08/faculty-position-in-advanced-manufacturing-technologies-closes-october-15-2012/

ESRI AND PCI GEOMATICS IMAGERY GRANT PROGRAM TO SUPPORT NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT - Esri, PCI Geomatics, MDA, and RapidEye recently announced their new Natural Resources Imagery Grant Program. The grant program will provide US-based organizations with software, data, and training for detecting and analyzing land-cover change through the combined use of geographic information system (GIS), image processing, and remote-sensing technologies. Designed to foster innovative approaches that solve natural resources management problems, the Natural Resources Imagery Grant Program will provide 20 grants valued at $100,000 each. Each grant includes the following:

- Esri GIS software and training
- PCI Geomatics imagery processing and analysis software and training
- MDA RADARSAT-2 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery
- RapidEye 5-meter multispectral imagery

Eligible organizations include all types of companies, educational institutions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), state and regional governments, or tribal governments in the United States. For more information, please visit the website: http://esriurl.com/4792

THIRD OPEN SOURCE GIS SUMMER SCHOOL COURSE MATERIALS NOW AVAILABLE - Dr Suchith Anand writes via Applied GIS and Rs: “We are happy to inform that all lecture and tutorial materials of the Third Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School at Girona are now made available online  for the benefit of the wider community.” Details at
http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2012/

HAVE YOU READ?
Obtain from your local library or from the sources provided. 

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

BIODIVERSITY

Ruth Charrondiere. FAO Progress report of 2011 on the data availability of the two Nutrition Indicators for Biodiversity: Food composition; Food comsumption. It is a collection of analytical data from the published and unpublished literature.
http://www.fao.org/infoods/biodiversity/Reporting2011twoIndicators.pdf

Kabir, M. A. Nath, T. K. Kim Wook. 2012. Crops in human life: comparative medicinal use of plants by Rakhain tribes living in forested and non-forested regions in Bangladesh. Research on Crops. 13: 1, 364-377. 21 ref. In which “Medicinal plant use of Rakhain tribal community of Bangladesh  living in a forested hilly region and non-forested plain land region was compared in terms of plant parts utilization, mode of administration, use versatility and uniformity in use.”
http://www.cropresearch.org/pages/rocrecentissue.htm

Fruit Trees and Useful Plants in Amazonian Life now available in Spanish. From: FAO’s NWFP Programme. A recent study by FAO, the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and People and Plants International released in December 2011, has just been published in Spanish.
http://www.fao.org/forestry/nwfp/en/

Dunwiddie, Peter W, Jonathan D. Bakker. The future of restoration and management of prairie/oak ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. Northwest Science (impact factor: 0.51). 01/2011; 85(2):83-92.
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/225299269_The_future_of_restoration_and_management_of_prairieoak_ecosystems_in_the_Pacific_Northwest

BIOFUEL/BIOMASS

Seungdo Kim and Bruce E. Dale. Indirect land use change for biofuels: Testing predictions and improving analytical methodologies. Biomass and Bioenergy. Volume 35, Issue 7, July 2011, Pages 3235–3240.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0961953411002418

O'Hare, M. et al. Comment on "Indirect land use change for biofuels: Testing predictions and improving analytical methodologies" by Kim and Dale: Statistical reliability and the definition of the indirect land use change (iLUC) issue. Biomass and Bioenergy. Volume 35, Issue 10, 15 October 2011, Pages 4485-4487.
http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?eid=2-s2.0-80053600389&origin=inward&txGid=dtnrShP0KqQo-1llDzVueUP%3a2

CLASSIFICATION/MAPPING

Robin Pouteaua et al. Support vector machines to map rare and endangered native plants in Pacific islands forests. Ecological Informatics. Volume 9, May 2012, Pages 37–46.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954112000210

Todd A. Schroedera et al. Detecting post-fire salvage logging from Landsat change maps and national fire survey data. Remote Sensing of Environment. Available online 10 February 2012.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425712000399

Depellegrin, Daniel. Aesthetic value characterization of landscapes in coastal zones. Baltic International Symposium (BALTIC), 2012 IEEE/OES. Date of Conference: 8-10 May 2012
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6249166&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6249166

CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON 

Elizabeth A. Law et al. A modular framework for management of complexity in international forest-carbon policy. Nature Climate Change 2, 155–160 (2012) Published online 24 February 2012.
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n3/full/nclimate1376.html

Diego Ruiz-Labourdette. Forest composition in Mediterranean mountains is projected to shift along the entire elevational gradient under climate change. Journal of Biogeography. Volume 39, Issue 1, pages 162–176, January 2012.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02592.x/full

B. Quennehen et al. Anthropogenic and forest fire pollution aerosol transported to the Arctic: observations from the POLARCAT-France spring campaign. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 12, 4541–4588, 2012 www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/12/4541/2012/ 

INVENTORY/MONITORING

Lee Hannah. A Preliminary Inventory of Human Disturbance of World Ecosystems. Ambio. Vol. 23, No. 4/5 (Jul., 1994), pp. 246-250. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4314213

Manfred Ehlers and Thomas Kastler. Environmental monitoring. Technology Guide. 2009, 9, 382-387, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88546-7_71.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m202q45v415248jj/

Doody, J.P. (2005). Sand dune inventory of Europe, in: Herrier, J.-L. et al. (Ed.) (2005). Proceedings 'Dunes and Estuaries 2005': International Conference on nature restoration practices in European coastal habitats, Koksijde, Belgium 19-23 September 2005. VLIZ Special Publication, 19: pp. 45-54.
http://www.vliz.be/imis/imis.php?module=ref&refid=76351

Mitsakaki, Christiana; Laoupi, Amanda. Monitoring Methods for the Mitigation of Natural Hazards' Impact on Tourist Cultural Sites. Surveying and Land Information Science, Volume 69, Number 1, March 2009 , pp. 29-38(10).
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nsps/salis/2009/00000069/00000001/art00004

LEGAL MATTERS

Achieving Optimal Legal Certainty on Regulation of Forest Roads.
http://beforeitsnews.com/environment/2012/08/achieving-optimal-legal-certainty-on-regulation-of-forest-roads-2445890.html

Lundmark, Thomas. Methods of Forest Law-Making; 22 B. C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 783 (1994-1995)
http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/bcenv22&div=33&id=&page=

C.P. Hansen1, L. Damnyag2, B.D. Obiri2 and K. Carlsen. Revisiting Illegal Logging and the Size of the Domestic Timber Market: The Case of Ghana. International Forestry Review 14(1):39-49. 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1505/146554812799973181

MISCELLANEOUS

Nilsson, K. et al. Forests, Trees and Human Health. (Eds.). 2011, 2011, VIII, 427 p. 175 illus., 41 in color. Hardcover. ISBN 978-90-481-9805-4
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/forestry/book/978-90-481-9805-4

REMOTE SENSING/GIS

NOTE: UGA researchers combine remote sensing technologies for highly detailed, accurate look at coastal changes. 
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2012-08-10/uga-researchers-combine-remote-sensing-technologies-highly-detailed-accurate-look

Anders Bryna, Pablo Dourojeanni, Lars Østbye Hemsing & Sejal O'Donnell. A high-resolution GIS null model of potential forest expansion following land use changes in Norway. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. Accepted author version posted online: 11 May 2012. Version of record first published: 06 Jun 2012
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02827581.2012.689005

Siamak Khorram, Frank H. Koch, Cynthia F. van der Wiele and Stacy A. C. Nelson. Using Remote Sensing in Atmospheric Applications. Space Development, 2012, 81-94, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3103-9_5.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p88t54p4620302q2/

Wu Lianxi, Su Xiaoxia and Li Dajun. RS image fusion technique for information preservation. Geo-Spatial Information Science. Volume 7, Number 4 (2004), 274-278, DOI: 10.1007/BF02828551. 
http://www.springerlink.com/content/b510586826373225/

Angelo, James, Duncan, Brean, and Weishampel, John. Using lidar remote sensing and support vector machines to classify fire disturbance legacies in a Florida oak scrub landscape. Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3610.1> (2009).
http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3610/version/1

RESOURCE ANALYSIS/MODELING

Jan Novák, Jiří Sádlo, and Helena Svobodová-Svitavská. Unusual vegetation stability in a lowland pine forest area (Doksy region, Czech Republic). The Holocene August 2012 22: 947-955, first published on February 10, 2012 doi:10.1177/0959683611434219
http://hol.sagepub.com/content/22/8/947.abstract

Denis Alder,J.N.M Silva. An empirical cohort model for management of Terra Firme forests in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management. Publisher: Elsevier. Date: 1 May 2000

Adhikari, D., Barik, S.K., and Upadhaya, K. 2012. Habitat distribution modelling for reintroduction of Ilex khasiana Purk., a critically endangered tree species of northeastern India. Ecol. Eng. 40:37-43.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857411003715

Sean LaRoy Hammond, Utah State University. Mapping Fire Fuels Through Detection of Canopy Biomass Loading In Juniper, Sagebrush, and Gambel Oak Communities. Date of Award: 2012.
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1194/

Strong, Richard. Soil Health Based on Organic Matter. This brief article considers climatic and land-use factors in determining organic matter levels in soil and the consequent health of the ecosystems supported on those soils. The research underlying this article is still in progress, developing as Richard Strong can manage to afford to visit other areas.
http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Richard%20Strong%20Article.html

SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT

Newton, P. Peres, C. A. Desmouliere, S. J. M. Watkinson, A. R. 2012. Cross-scale variation in the density and spatial distribution of an Amazonian non-timber forest resource. Forest Ecology and Management.276: 41-51.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112712001855

Sarah T. Hamman, Peter W. Dunwiddie, Jason L. Nuckols and Mason McKinley. Fire as a Restoration Tool in Pacific Northwest Prairies and Oak Woodlands: Challenges, Successes, and Future Directions open access. Northwest Science May 2011. Volume 85 Issue 2 pg(s) 317–328.
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3955/046.085.0217

CAPTURED ON VIDEO

BRAZILIANS IN FINLAND FORESTRY VISIT
Video of a visit to Finland forestry by the Brazilian group Painel Florestal. This video shows Day Two of the visit.
http://www.painelflorestal.com.br/painel-florestal-tv/reportagem-especial/665/finlandia-florestal-2o-dia-video

PICS FIRE UP DEBATE ON FOREST MANAGEMENT
Not quite a video but…what is described as “Our Changing Forests: An 88-Year Time Lapse : The Picture Show : NPR” shows 83-year-old pics of forest management techniques compared to today’s methods. Commentators the older methods are better for fire prevention compared to modern methods, which they say have led to widespread wildfires in the USA.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/08/23/159614784/our-changing-forests-an-88-year-time-lapse

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 
http://www.conferencealerts.com/ 
http://www.efi.int/ 
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  
www.conferencealerts.com

3-5 October 2012. EFI Annual Conference and Scientific Seminar will be held on in Istanbul, Turkey.
http://www.efi.int/portal/shortcuts_2_-_about_efi/efi_2012_annual_conference

24 October– 27October 2012. 2012 SAF National Convention. Spokane Convention Center. Spokane, Washington.
http://www.safnet.org/natcon12/index.cfm

29 October-1 November 2012. MAPPS/ASPRS 2012 Specialty Conference: Emerging Technologies Supporting Geospatial Application. Tampa, Florida USA. Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel.
http://www.asprs.org/Conferences/Tampa-2012/blog

Symposium: Responses of Arctic Marine Ecosystems to Climate Change - March 26-29, 2013 - 
Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Call for abstracts, due November 30, 2012. http://seagrant.uaf.edu/conferences/2013/wakefield-arctic-ecosystems/call.php

Alaska Sea Grant, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and other sponsors will hold a 3.5-day Wakefield Fisheries Symposium, to advance understanding of present and future responses of arctic marine ecosystems to climate change at all trophic levels.

9-12 September 2012. 4th International Faustmann Symposium, Forest Economics under Multiple Challenges. Saariselkä, Lapland, Finland. University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Sciences.
http://www.helsinki.fi/forestsciences/4th_faustmann/index.html

12-13 December 2012. International Conference on Forest Mountain & People 2012. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
http://www.icimod.org/?q=6525

4-7 May 2012. Geography International Symposium - Climate Change for Sustainability. Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
http://www.geographysymposium.geo.ugm.ac.id/geography_symposium.html

21-26 October 2012. International Forestry Graduate Students' Conference 2012 (FORGRAD 2012). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, in collaboration with the Academy of Science Malaysia. Contact: technical.forgrad2012(at)gmail.com
http://www.forr.upm.edu.my/index.php/ifgsc-forgrad2012

29 October-9 November 2012. Spatial Ecology, Geospatial Analysis & Remote Sensing. Learn to use GIS tools to address conservation research problems, quantifying effects of human-induced global changes on wildlife and biodiversity. Hands-on lab exercises (e.g. land cover mapping; home range analysis; modeling habitat selection; mapping species distributions) use remote sensing data and SCBI field surveys to monitor global changes, assess impacts on wildlife, and develop mitigating strategies. Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation Graduate/Professional Training Courses.
http://botany.si.edu/pubs/bcn/issue/latest.htm#courses

13-15 November 2012. Modern Problems of Forestry and Forest Management. St. Petersburg, Russia.IUFRO 3.00.00, Contact: Maxim Chubinsky, mchubinsky(at)gmail.com
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-3/30000/
IUFRO 4.00.00, http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/

22-27 November 2012. Gender and Forestry Conference: Environmental governance and four decades of gender research: Where do we stand? Wondo Genet Forestry College, Ethiopia. IUFRO 6.08.00, http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-6/60000/60800/ 
Contact: Gun Lidestav, Gun.Lidestav(at)slu.se
http://www.slu.se/en/faculties/s/about-the-faculty/departments/srh-en/sections/forest-resource-analysis/forest-in-rural-studies/gender-and-forestry-conference-2012/

6-7 December 2012. Illegal Logging and Legality Verification – The FLEGT / VPA as New Modes of Governance. University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2012. Contact: Kirsten Carlsen: kica(at)life.ku.dk
http://sl.life.ku.dk/English/outreach_publications/Conferences/flegt.aspx

13-15 March 2013. Small Log Conference. Forest Business Network’s 6th Bi-Annual Small Log Conference. Coeur d’Alene Resort in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
http://www.forestbusinessnetwork.com/our-events/slc/

2-5 April 2013. Forest Cover Change (FoCC). Freising, Germany. Contact: Thomas Knoke, Email: knoke(at)forst.wzw.tum.de
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40200/

July 22-25, 2013, the conference Forest Genetics 2013 will be held in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. This conference is a joint meeting of four organizations:
www.forestgenetics2013.ca

20 July-28 July, 2014 Sixth International Poplar Symposium (IPS-VI). Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. Contact: Cees van Oosten, Email: silviconsult(at)telus.net
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/8779/3637/ips-vi14-revised-dates_pdf/

WHILE SURFING THE WEB…INTERESTING LINKS
For a complete listing of links go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forest_information_update/

Human Health Impacts of Fire. The relationships between human health and forest fires are variable and complex. See more at:
http://forestencyclopedia.net/p/p793

Forests and Human Health – Assessing the Evidence.
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40200/

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