Tag: Timber products output

FIA One-Click Factsheet Wins Agency Honor Award

by Jennifer Moore Myers, SRS Science Communications  • 
Every year since 1930, scientists from across the USDA Forest Service team up with state agencies to survey the nation’s forests, as they have since 1930. The field crews are part of the Forest Inventory and Analysis program, or FIA, a national census of forest land and forest conditions. This massive campaign collects data on…  More 

FIA Stakeholders Meeting

by Sarah Farmer, SRS Science Communications  • 
Across the nation, USDA Forest Inventory and Analysis collects data on forest ecosystems, including soils, microbes, land ownership, carbon, invasive plants, and of course, trees. Every two years, experts from the U.S. and beyond gather to share their knowledge. The 2019 FIA Stakeholders Science Meeting was held in Knoxville, Tennessee from November 19-21. The National…  More 

Southern Forest Products: An Economic Engine

by Zoe Hoyle, SRS Science Communications  • 
A storymap developed by USDA Forest Service researchers allows users to interactively chart the ebb and flow of forest products across the southern states. Using Forest Service Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data loaded onto Esri’s ArcGIS Online (AGOL) platform, Southern Forest Products – An Economic Engine, provides a constantly updated guide to southern timber product outputs…  More 

Tracking Those Other Forest Products

by Zoe Hoyle, SRS Science Communications  • 
Timber is certainly the best-known forest product, but since before the time of European settlement, people have harvested other plants from the forests for a wide range of purposes. The U.S. Forest Service National Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program has assessed timber product output (TPO) for more than 60 years by surveying the primary producers of industrial…  More