This page covers changes to the Forest Economics and Policy Unit's pages.
24-OCT-2008 R&D's web content has never really supported location-level information, so Lab-level content formerly at /econ/lab/ has now been dropped, improving the focus and currency of our content
28-APR-2006 a Station reorganization is combining employees from SRS-4851 and SRS-4802 into one Research Work Unit--the web site starts the process of updating our content and design to reflect these ongoing changes.
4-APR-2003 after almost five years of life, the domain www.rtp.srs.fs.fed.us is now officially being phased out, with content being moved under the renamed Southern Research Station domain of www.srs.fs.usda.gov. Look for SRS4851 content under www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/ and SRS4154 under www.srs.fs.usda.gov/soils/. Lab-wide content can be found at www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/lab/. Both our move and the renaming of the SRS domain were spurred by DNS resolution problems triggered by network security concerns. However, the new location fits better with web practices elsewhere in the Station and agency and has a number of benefits, including a shorter address! Changing URLs is never easy, please bear with us while we relocate content and alert users of our old address to the change.
26-JUL-2002 added 22 more abstracts to our collection, bringing it up to date and revamped the browsing options available from our Publications and Products page, now offering lists by publication year, reporting year, problem area, cross-cutting theme, and point of contact; pages were also updated to make them more modern in coding and with more readily updated appearance
24-JUL-2001 catching up on listing changes to our site: our DERT pages were updated to include new links and revised organization, Kentucky was added to our timber price pages, and new search options were added to our search page to permit searching of all Forest Service Research sites plus entry to the Firstgov search engine
15-MAR-2001 a bit of a lag in posting changes here, the biggest of which is additions to our Timber Price Information section. Most recently we've added a page of advice to landowners wishing to sell timber plus another listing State contacts for timber price information.
28-SEP-2000 as part of our revamped publications navigation, recent publications are now also listed by the Station's Cross-Cutting Themes, from the main Publications Page
14-AUG-2000 the continuing success of the Unit in publishing research has required a revamping of how publications are handled and posted. The complete design will be unfolding in stages but initial efforts include redesign of the "abstract" pages, updating the entries through most of the current year, and incorporation of at least journal publication citations back to 1993. Almost 200 citations and abstracts are now posted and reachable through the site search engine. Next on deck is a specialized search engine just for citations and restructured access pages.
24-JUL-2000 searching the Federal Employee Directory is now possible directly from our Search Page but for Forest Service employees you're still better off using the Forest Service search there
16-MAY-2000 ever responsive to customer demand, we've added links to the Lab Home Page showing visitors where to find current information on wildfires, and added PDF versions of the RPA 2000 presentations
27-APR-2000 we've posted nearly 150 pages of content today, briefing materials for an upcoming meeting on the 2000 RPA Timber Assessment, to be held in Atlanta May 4th
13-MAR-2000 our comment page has been revised to now match the Forest Service's standard questions, with all comments forwarded to not only the webmaster but also to our local Customer Service Rep. and to the Forest Service's Washington Office
13-MAR-2000 the Forest Service has been changing its email system and with it all of our email addresses, so we've been updating the various email addresses throughout the site to reflect this. Most of these have been MAILTO: links for each page's "maintained by:" person, most have which have been changed to point to that person's contact page where you'll find not only their new email address but also a link to their CV with loads more information about that person. In case we've missed a needed change, the new email addresses have dropped the "srs_rtp" before the "@" sign and now include the full last name after the person's first initial (eg. jprestemon@fs.fed.us or rgoldstein@fs.fed.us)
7-FEB-2000 you missed it. A snowstorm closed the RTP Lab and disrupted various systems including phones, heat, etc. The home page contained updates on our recovery through the week of the 31st, you can still see a photo gallery from then
3-JAN-2000 to make his hire even more official, we've added Dave Butry's CV to our site
8-DEC-1999 we're pleased to make it official that Dave Butry, Economist has joined our Unit
3-DEC-1999 while posting the usage stats for October and November previous reports were consolidated to give a better long-range picture as well as recent patterns
15-OCT-1999 as of today this web site has been operating for three years, an event we've celebrated for one month with a virtual birthday cake on the Economics home page
10-SEP-1999 a long-overdue revamping of our Favorite Sites page went up today
25-AUG-1999 our Data/Tools page now provides a link to the Quicksilver financial analysis Windows program by Mike Vasievich; historians will recall that Mike was working on this program while he still worked for our Unit
19-AUG-1999 while this site has displayed it's privacy policy since July of 1998 the link to that policy page has been more clearly set out at the bottom of the Lab and Economics home pages
12-AUG-1999 our first online presentation designed expressly for the web, check out the maps showing locations of various mill types in the Eastern US
6-AUG-1999 our first spatial data went online today--check out Mill Locations for data on all forest product mills in the Eastern United States, including in mill name, mailing address, and FIPS and census tract ID's
4-AUG-1999 check out the July usage stats and by all means don't miss our much revampted Search Page using the Station's newly unveiled Webinator search engine
22-JUN-1999 check out how others have been using our site at our latest Web Site Usage Report
21-JUN-1999 there's a new version of Bobby available, a program which reviews web pages for accessibility to those with disabilities, prompting a recheck how our site fairs in this regard, and I'm pleased to say that once again ALL of our pages are compliant with their most critical standards
28-MAY-1999 we've added 28 new abstracts of recent publications to our site plus entries for them in the relevant publication lists - try the abstracts page for our updated list
1-APR-1999 no joke despite the date, links to Forest Health Protection's personnel directory have been added to both the Lab's and the Economics directory pages
16-MAR-1999 the latest web usage report, hopefully updated twice a month (made it!)
9-MAR-1999 search dozens of Forest Service web sites at once and do it right from our own search page, courtesy of our Washington Office and BLM, who've launched a Netscape Compass indexer which crawls, indexes and locates information on tens of thousands of Forest Service web pages regardless of location
2-MAR-1999 low key improvements include an updated web usage report, added links in the Lab and Economics Unit personnel listings plus minor cosmetic surgery including changes to the loblolly pine background on the RTP lab pages and top and bottom menu layouts on most major Economics pages
23-FEB-1999 not to overshadow Jeff's conversion to permanent member of our team, our Web Use Statistics have been updated complete with brief analysis of trends
22-FEB-1999 Jeff Prestemon has moved from a post-doctoral position to a permanent slot as Research Forester, with the change duly noted on various pages
7-JAN-1999 a long-overdue facelift is now in place for our Lab's Homepage and associated Lab-wide pages, with more minor cosmetic changes to major Economics Unit pages
5-JAN-1999 all 11 of our full-text publications are now listed in the Station's searchable database of recent publications
17-DEC-1998 updated the site usage report to cover the latest 6 weeks of activity
14-DEC-1998 Kareem Macon has left the Economics Unit to continue his college work - the Lab and Econ directories have been updated accordingly
30-NOV-1998 Hotbot's fixed their indexing woes so our Search Page is back in business!
11-NOV-1998 offerings on our Data and Tools page have just doubled (no trick when it starts out at one) - check out our long awaited Timber Mart South conversion weights, redressing TMS reporting area changes in 1992
27-OCT-1998 oops, indexing troubles on the Hotbot search engine required that we remove our site search capability until this is resolved, hopefully in the next month or so - stay tuned
15-OCT-1998 new search options added to our Search Page plus an added gem to the Favorite Sites page
7-OCT-1998 check out the latest visitation patterns for September, including information on search engines, referrer sites, etc.
5-OCT-1998 two Forest Service Research web sites have been incorporated into the main Forest Service web site in Washington DC - links on our Search and Favorite Sites have been updated accordingly
1-OCT-1998 a respectful "taps" is due - at 8:51 AM we turned off the Linux-based webserver originally known as www.emapfhm.gov - it has served us well; those of you who have been using that long-defunct domain name, glad you've caught up to us again
24-SEP-1998 after minor changes we can now certify that ALL pages in the Economics and Lab sections of the site now meet the Center for Applied Special Technology's "Bobby Approved" standards for accessibility to people with disabilities, in keeping with our commitment to equal opportunity in program delivery
22-SEP-1998 changed Karen J. Lee's name to Karen Lee Abt on nine pages including her CV page and contact page
21-SEP-1998 each of us in the Economics Unit now has a contact page designed to help customers find us more easily as we change our email addresses to the new Forest Service standard
1-SEP-1998 check out this summer's web usage at the Economics site and see what others have been getting out of the site including listings of our most popular abstracts and full-text downloads
31-AUG-1998 it's official now, our web site is now operating out of Asheville, NC
26-AUG-1998 our web site is now being moved to Asheville, a change which should be transparent to users as we're keeping our current domain name--the interruption in service from 2PM to 8AM was an unrelated token of respect for Hurricane Bonnie
27-JUL-1998 besides some administrative shiftings of RTP-level pages we've updated the Web Usage Report for the Economics portion of the site
22-JUL-1998 we've added a privacy rights statement to the Web Site Policies page
10-JUL-1998 our first dataset is available online via our Data page, describing changes in broad forest types over time for counties across the South
11-JUN-1998 our beta test site at www.rtp.srs.fs.fed.us/econ/ now has both search capabilities AND a comment form--try them out!
21-MAY-1998 our new search capability has been expanded to permit simultaneous searches across either 6 Station web sites or 17 different Forest Service Research web sites (sites listed now in our Favorite Sites page)
20-MAY-1998 to help handle all the content, we've introduced a Search capability, courtesy of Thunderstone for local searches and HotBot to search the RTP site and others in the Southern Research Station--links to the search page have been added to the Home and Contents pages
8-MAY-1998 the facelift of the Economics Unit pages is now complete, but it's more than just cosmetic--our Abstracts page now reflects additional pages which describe our more recent research results, and the Studies page now includes a link to the searchable CRIS database describing studies completed or underway throughout the Department of Agriculture
4-MAY-1998 check out the Personnel page to see our now-completed set of CV's, newly updated and with a facelift to boot, just like the one you see on THIS page and our Economics home page, part of a top-to-bottom overhaul of the site
16-APR-1998 lots more gets added or revised each day, such as Bob Moulton's CV or our revamped research mission page describing problem areas we research, or perhaps the studies page which takes you to descriptions of our individual studies both completed and ongoing
3-APR-1998 after nearly a year here on the RTP web server, Forest Health Protection (Region 8) has moved their pages to their own new web server in Asheville, we wish them well!
2-APR-1998 the Southern Research Station has launched a completely revamped set of pages on its own web server, supplanting the Station's content at Mississippi State; all of our links have been revised to point to this newest resource (historians will recall this is their third incarnation, the first being run from right here!)
1-APR-1998 we've quietly doubled our content the last few weeks, adding abstracts for all of this year's publications plus adding a new item, study descriptions, which summarize studies currently underway or completed and lists the publications or other products they've produced
25-FEB-1998 added to the Lab's phone directory Stephanie Fulton, Forest Health Monitoring's new Landscape Ecologist
24-FEB-1998 three new publications have been added to the site--look for their citations on the FPEI Publications page among others, and follow its title link to an abstract page where you can download the full article in PDF format
18-FEB-1998 revised navigation options on this page (What's New) and expanded the Contents page to include the Biologic Foundations Unit's section
17-FEB-1998 publications listings are now available by topic as well as by year--check them out from the revamped main publications page
10-FEB-1998 another batch of publication listings are now available--the FY97 publications list is now available, and these publications have been incorporated into the complete publications list (58K)
3-FEB-1998 yet another update to the Lab's phone directory plus amending the placeholder Station page to automatically push visitors to its new site
8-JAN-1998 added personnel from the Global Change Program to the Lab's phone directory and improved the listing of phone numbers there
7-JAN-1998 added link on Related Sites page pointing to
Forest & Grassland Inventory & Monitoring page--it's a long page but contains pointers to organizations, data sources, journals, listservs, all sorts of useful resources
4-DEC-1997 removed link to 9th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference from main page following retirement of that section, and improved use of "alt" tags for text-only readers
18-NOV-1997 added SOFEW's new location to our Related Sites page. SOFEW stands for Southern Forest Economics Workgroup--if you'd like to know more, check it out.
12-NOV-1997 the much awaited Research Paper SRS-4 entitled "Positive returns to investment in fusiform rust research" is now available for download in PDF format via coauthor John Pye's CV page. At nearly 850K it's the biggest document we offer!
16-OCT-1997 revised the dates on this page for Year 2000 compliance and relocated the pages of Research Work Unit SRS-4201 ("Endangered, Threatened, and Sensitive Wildlife and Plants in Southern Forests") to their new location at the Southern Research Station Headquarter's web site
29-SEP-1997 added link on the Lab home page pointing to the Southern Global Change Program's web site. Now all four of the research groups associated with the RTP Lab offer something on the web!
31-JUL-1997 added links to reports page pointing visitors to additional sources of online publications
18-JUL-1997 updated the CV of Jeffrey Prestemon, including a link to a new downloadable document of his, from SOFEW's 1996 proceedings published just last month.
2-JUN-1997 launched a new section within the Station's pages, describing the Research Work Unit Endangered, Threatened and Sensitive Wildlife and Plants in Southern Forests, added links to external web sites in John M. Pye's resume
1-MAY-1997 launched a new section, The Health of Southern Forests, a report produced by the Forest Health Protection staff, Southern Region
31-MAR-1997 apologies to our dedicated but frustrated visitors these last few weeks, we've had continuing problems with our domain name server (DNS). To make viewing less sensitive to DNS problems the web server specification on various pages has been changed as we work to resolve the underlying problems
7-MAR-1997 the long-anticipated 1996 Publications list has been added and the overall listing of Publications 1993-1996 updated to include the newer publications; links to downloadable Adobe Acrobat documents have been added wherever the articles are mentioned
26-FEB-1997 added links for downloadable documents to 1995 Publications by Problem Area and Source and Publications by First Author, Fiscal Years 1993-1995 pages; minor editing to John Pye's CV
21-FEB-1997 housekeeping changes this week, correcting or updating email and external links to numerous pages
11-FEB-1997 added FPEI Working Paper Numbers 57 and 58
19-DEC-1996 pages describing the upcoming Ninth Biennial Southern Silivultural Research Conference added as a special feature of the web site
12-DEC-1996 added CV for Evan Mercer, improved link specifications on What's New page
6-DEC-1996 revised the Lab-wide pages (such as this one) for faster download and display and deeper links into the site, added a map with directions to the Lab.
2-DEC-1996 moved web site to a faster computer, can you tell the difference?
14-NOV-1996 added SCFER Working Paper Numbers 81, 80 and 76 for download
8-NOV-1996 added SCFER Working Paper No. 82 for download
5-NOV-1996 added SCFER Working Paper Series page, plus FPEI paper 59 for download
29-OCT-1996 added What's new page for Economics Unit section
29-OCT-1996 updated email addresses to reflect new Station designations, miscellaneous minor fixes and corrections
22-OCT-1996 added list of FPEI publications
15-OCT-1996 - site is officially launched when link is created from our Washington Office home page and indexers notified
