FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE VOL. 13 NO.

9 September 2012 Welcome to this edition of FIU Please find below our latest batch of articles, listing, meetings and web sites for the natural resource sector. Our associate company BMS Books has a new book out A Soldiers Life coincides with the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Alamein in WW2. Please feel free to check it out at: http://tinyurl.com/asoldierslife Kind regards Mike Smith, Editor and Director info@southem.com INTRODUCTION Forest Information Update (FIU) is a free monthly email newsletter sent to people interested in the inventory and monitoring of natural resources and reaches about 22,000 natural resource specialists and other recipients worldwide. FIU is produced by Trade and Media Services Ltd (www.southem.com) and is supported by organizations, agencies and individuals working in the natural resources field. LINK IN TO FIU Follow up this edition with discussions and news items at the new Forest Information Linked-in group at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2304033&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr YAHOO GROUP - Download this and previous editions the Forest Information Yahoo group at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/forest_information_update/?yguid=224336867 FACE-TO-FACE A new Facebook page has been established so you can personalize your contacts with other FIU users and contributors. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Forestry-info/143128941914?ref=ts FIU SPONSORS FIU offers advertisers with access to influential readers spanning the globe. This influential group of readers is active in all aspects of the forestry, natural resources, and climate change sector, from establishment, management and marketing to development and trade. For more information, contact: sales@southem.com Please visit our sponsors web sites, learn about what they do and utilize their services. 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 1416, 2013 in Redlands, California. For more

information, contact: forestryinfo@esri.com View photos from the event at: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1977293@N21/pool/ 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 Esris 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-theLaserGIS-Challenge.aspx DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS FIU is sent to each of the following international lists - all are free, low volume and secure: Forest list See http://joyx.joensuu.fi/pipermail/forest-list/ Global Association of Online Foresters (GAOF) - see http://www.foresters.org/portal/newmember.php International Forest List (IFL) - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ifl-tech2000/ Nepalese Foresters - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nepaleseforesters/ Wetlandfriends see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wetlandfriends and http://www.dgroups.org/groups/wetlandfriends/ Global e-Forum on Climate Change and Global Warming http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateConcern/ Applied-GIS-RS homepage - http://www.matox.com/agisrs Silvinet, Portuguese-based - http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/SilviNet/ You may receive FIU by joining one of the above. If you wish to receive FIU only send a blank email to forest_information_update-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. For questions, to submit material, or to sponsor FIU, please contact me, Mike, info@southem.com INPUT - This month's input comes from: Gary Krupnick, Nelson Wong, Lance Olsen, Gandhiv Kafle, Artur Gil, Ross Mayhew, Selva Escalera, Colin, Infosylva, IUFRO, and many more. Thank you all for sharing your information! HAVE YOU HEARD? NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD IS WOOD PULP THE NEW WONDER MATERIAL? NANOCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE GETS HOT The New Scientist reports nanocrystalline cellulose produced by processing wood pulp is being hailed as the latest wonder material. Japan-based Pioneer Electronics is applying it to the next generation of flexible electronic displays. IBM is using it to create components for computers. Even the US army is getting in on the act, using it

to make lightweight body armour and ballistic glass. See more: http://tinyurl.com/fiunano US LAND MANAGERS WARNED TERRORISTS TARGETING DYING FORESTS The Salt Lake Tribune reported that the FBI has warned land managers in the USA that terrorist groups might seize on dry conditions and stands of beetle-killed trees to ignite forest fires that would cost millions to fight and create widespread chaos, Utahs forester said. We took it quite seriously," said Dick Buehler, director of the Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands. "It was distributed to all land-management agencies in the United States." http://tinyurl.com/fiuterror SAF POLICY UPDATE ON USDA PROCESS - The Society of American Foresters has issued a policy update regarding the USDAs Forest Service Project-Level Predecisional Aministrative Review Process September 7, 2012. http://tinyurl.com/fiusafpol UPGRADED FOREST INVENTORY SOLUTION RELEASED - F4 Tech has announced the release of SilvAssist version 3.0. SilvAssist reduces the steps required to setup, manage, report, and analyze forest inventory. SilvAssist is an extension to ArcGIS by Esri, the industry-leading provider of GIS software. It complements F4 Techs Real-Time Inventory (RTI) by providing faster, more thorough GIS tools for managing forest inventory cruises. This software helps foresters minimize steps between cruise setup and provides reports and analysis while combining inventory and geospatial data together into one database and application. http://tinyurl.com/fiuf4tech HEAVY RAIN STALLS TIGER-TRACKING OPERATION - Incessant rain has stalled the tiger-tracking operation, the Times of India has reported. The forest department has stopped combing in the area due to flooding. At least two man-eating tigers are on the prowl in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh state, North India. The forest officers are yet to localise the big cats. http://tinyurl.com/fiutiger MAJOR PUBLISHERS JOIN SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE - Four major North American publishers Time Inc., the National Geographic Society, Macmillan, and Pearson have joined the Sustainable Forestry Initiatives (SFI) Forest Partners Program as founding members. The program creates a way for the publishing industry to support SFIs certification program for forest and forest products. SFI said the new partners will work collectively with the SFI community to make certification more efficient and accessible by providing resources for activities such as shared consulting expertise, group certification or audit coordination. http://tinyurl.com/fiusfi 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.

HELP! FEEDBACK TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Pay it forward! If you can help with any of the requests below, please take the time to do so. Your kind assistance will be appreciated and rewarded. EXPANDING OPERATIONS - David Van Hendry writes: I have a logging Operation, Wood Receiving Yard, and 30 years experience in the Timber Industry in Gulf Coast Region of the US. I am a Registered Forester and Professional Logger. I am looking to expand my operation into other areas. Email to timberplus@bayspringstel.net COBARFLORIS QUERY - Michael Corcoran writes: Recently, I was reading a Christmas fairy tale called "The Rose and the Ring", by William Makepeace Thackery, in which the principal characters are the nobility of two neighbouring kingdoms, Krim Tartary and Paphlagonia. The princes and princesses are given nicknames in mock Latin and mock Italian such as Cavolfiore( Cauliflower), Rosealba( White Rose), and Bulbo( Tulip) as well as Giglio( Lily); however, one of the main characters was called "Cobarfloris", which does not have any immediate translation in any language, ancient, medieval, or modern. I was wondering whether anyone might know something about the existence of a species of wild flower, vegetable, herb, plant, or weed conceivably corresponding to the pseudo-Latin nomenclature of "cobarfloris" ? Email: omarthrawnthree@ymail.com OPPORTUNITIES - Several readers of FIU are seeking employment in the forestry field. If you have jobs available and are in need of good people, please consider posting your vacancies in FIU (there is no charge for this service) and the following outlets: CONSULTING UTILITY FORESTER - CN Utility Consulting (CNUC), an employee owned organization, is seeking qualified utility foresters for immediate hire on a project in the USA at Quad Cities, Des Moines, Fort Dodge, Sioux City, and Council Bluffs, Iowa. http://www.getforestryjobs.net/consulting-utility-forester-ia-des-moines-iowa31404366.htm HAVE YOU READ? Obtain from your local library or from the sources provided. ARTICLES OF INTEREST BIODIVERSITY Fladung, M., Hoenicka, H., Altosaar, I., Bartsch, D., Baucher, M., Boscaleri, F., Gallardo F., Hggman, H., Nielsen, K.M., Paffetti, D., Sguin, A., Stotzky, G. and Vettori, C. 2012. European discussion forum on transgenic tree biosafety (Correspondence). Nature Biotechnol. 30, 37-38.

http://tinyurl.com/fiutransgenic Heinemann, J.A. and Kurenbach, B. 2008. Special threats to the agroecosystem from the combination of genetically modified crops and glyphosate. Third World Network Biosafety Briefing, August 2008. http://tinyurl.com/fiubiosafety1 and Gbor L Lvei, Thomas Bhn and Angelika Hilbeck. Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Genetically Modified Organisms. Publisher: TWN http://tinyurl.com/fiubiosafety2 N. J. Enfield. Diversity Disregarded. Science 14 September 2012: 1295-1296. [DOI:10.1126/science.1225365] http://tinyurl.com/fiudiversity2 BIOFUEL/BIOMASS Jim Lane. Is the EU Abandoning Biofuels? Biofuels Digest. September 19, 2012. http://tinyurl.com/fiueubiofuels Helen Zhang and David Jin (editors). Experimental Study on Direct Biomass Reburning Denitrification. Advanced Research on Engineering Materials, Energy, Management and Control. Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 424 - 425). http://tinyurl.com/fiureburn T Dalun, X Wenhua, Y Wende. Comparison of biomass dynamic and nutrient cycling between Pinus massoniman plantation and Pinus Elliotti in plantation. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2003. http://tinyurl.com/fiudynamic2 CLASSIFICATION/MAPPING Pouteau, R., Meyer, J.Y., Taputuarai, R., and Stoll, B. 2012. Support vector machines to map rare and endangered native plants in Pacific island forests. Ecol. Inform. 9:37-46. http://tinyurl.com/fiuislands A. Baccini & S. J. Goetz. Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps. Nature Climate Change. September 2012. Vol 2 Issue 9. http://tinyurl.com/fiuimproved Dafna Shahaf, Carlos Guestrin & Eric Horvitz. Trains of thought: generating information maps. Proceeding: WWW '12 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web. Pages 899-908. 2012. http://tinyurl.com/fiuthought CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON

Aslaksen, I., Glomsrd, I. and Myhr, A.I. (2012) Late lessons from early warnings uncertainty and precaution in policy approaches to Arctic climate change impacts. Polar Geography 35 (2), p.135-153, DOI:10.1080/1088937X.2011.654357 http://tinyurl.com/fiulessons Sydeman, W.J., Thompson, S.A., and Kitaysky, A. 2012. Seabirds and climate change: roadmap for the future. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 454:107-117. http://tinyurl.com/fiuseabirds Paul A. OGorman. Sensitivity of tropical precipitation extremes to climate change. Nature Geoscience. Published online 16 September 2012. http://tinyurl.com/fiuprecipitation INVENTORY/MONITORING Costion, C.M., Liston, J., Kitalong, A.H., Iida, A., and Lowe, A.J. 2012. Using the ancient past for establishing current threat in poorly inventoried regions. Biol. Conserv. 147(1):153-162. http://tinyurl.com/fiuancient Harrison, M.E., Boonman, A., Cheyne, S.M., Husson, S.J., Marchant, N.C., and Struebig, M.J. 2012. Biodiversity monitoring protocols for REDD+: can a onesize-fits-all approach really work? Tropical Conservation Science. 5(1):1-11. http://tinyurl.com/fiuprotocols Hudgins, R.M., Norment, C., and Schlesinger, M.D. 2012. Assessing detectability for monitoring of rare species: a case study of the cobblestone tiger beetle (Cicindela marginipennis Dejean). J. Insect Conserv. 16(3):447-455. http://tinyurl.com/fiutiger2 LEGAL MATTERS Kaimowitz, D. Forest law enforcement and rural livelihoods. Source: International Forestry Review, Volume 5, Number 3, September 2003 , pp. 199-210(12). http://tinyurl.com/fiurural1 Moritz Albrecht. Perceiving sustainable forest spaces: governance aspects of private and company owned forests in North-Karelia, Finland. Fennia International Journal of Geography. Vol 190, No 1 (2012). http://tinyurl.com/fiuaspects MISCELLANEOUS Cecil A. Jennings, Thomas E. Lauer, and Bruce Vondracek, editors. Scientific Communication for Natural Resource Professionals. 180 pages. Published by the American Fisheries Society. Publication date: August 2012. http://tinyurl.com/fiuscicoms Vilsack, Tidwell Highlight Economic Benefits of Forests, Forest Products. At

Forestry Source. http://tinyurl.com/fiuecon REMOTE SENSING/GIS Firoz Verjee. GIS Tutorial for Humanitarian Assistance. October 15, 2010. 382 pages. ESRI Press. http://tinyurl.com/fiuhumanitarian Paul A. OGorman. Sensitivity of tropical precipitation extremes to climate change. Nature Geoscience. Published online 16 September 2012. http://tinyurl.com/fiuextremes RESOURCE ANALYSIS/MODELING Gillund, F., Kjlberg, K.A., Krayer von Krauss, M. & Myhr, A.I. 2008. Do uncertainty analyses reveal uncertainties? Using the introduction of DNA vaccines to aquaculture as a case. Science of The Total Environment 407, 185-196. http://tinyurl.com/fiuuncertainty Tom Wessels. Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape. September 2010. 160 pages. Countryman Press. http://tinyurl.com/fiuforensics Bergl, R.A., Warren, Y., Nicholas, A., Dunn, A., Imong, I., Sunderland-Groves, J.L., and Oates, J.F. 2012. Remote sensing analysis reveals habitat, dispersal corridors and expanded distribution for the Critically Endangered Cross River gorilla Gorilla gorilla diehli. Oryx 46(2):278-289. http://tinyurl.com/fiugorilla SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT V Ingram, O Ndoye, DM Iponga, JC Tieguhong, R Nasi 2012. Non-timber forest products: Contribution to national economy and strategies for sustainable management. Dare.uva.nl http://tinyurl.com/fiucontribution P Saenger. Ecological and Social Consequences of the Void in Mangrove Conservation. BioScience, Vol. 62, No. 2, February 2012. http://tinyurl.com/fiumangrove Bindu Bhatt, Janak P. Joshi. Sustainable management of agricultural lands using GIS: A Spatio-Temporal analysis of irrigation water quality in Vadodara taluk. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMATICS AND GEOSCIENCES. Volume 2, No 3, 2012 http://tinyurl.com/fiutemporal CAPTURED ON VIDEO SAVE THE IBERIAN WOLF - A crowdfunding campaign is underway to help the

survival of the Iberian Wolf. The Dont Let our Worlves Become Homeless campaign aims to raise $250,000. See the video or go directly to the web site. Vid at: http://tinyurl.com/fiuwolfvideo and URL at: http://tinyurl.com/fiuwolf 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 27-28 September, 2012. The New Metrics of Sustainable Business Conference. The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA, USA. http://www.sustainablebrands.com/events/issuesinfocus/businessmetrics 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 15 October, 2012. The Green Life of Wood - Assessing its Environmental Impacts from Cradle to Cradle. The UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section warmly welcome you to share your views on the sustainability of wood in Geneva. Background document including detailed workshop programme and on-line registration are available at: http://www.unece.org/forests/lca-workshop.html For more information, please contact elina.warsta@fao.org 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 3.5day 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. Saariselk, 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/forestresource-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 16-18 January 2013. Building Resilient Communities Through Community-based Forest Management. Northern Ontario Sustainable Communities. Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. http://noscp.ca/wpcontent/uploads/2012/09/CBFM2013_PreliminaryProgram_21jun2012-2.pdf 13-15 March 2013. Small Log Conference. Forest Business Networks 6th Bi-Annual Small Log Conference. Coeur dAlene Resort in Coeur dAlene, 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 WEBINTERESTING LINKS For a complete listing of links go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forest_information_update/ Link to a cool graphic about Aspen. http://ncfp.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/link-to-cool-graphic-about-aspen/ COPYRIGHT NOTICE Items headlined in Forest Information Update are drawn from a number of sources. The source of the item is quoted, either by publication or organisations in line with the practice of fair reporting. Where necessary, Items are translated by TMS Ltd. Every effort is made to ensure use of paid wire service material is avoided at all times. Should users wish to utilize Forest Information Update on their own web sites, we request that this is done to accurately reflect the current layout to ensure attribution is appropriate.