Tonya W. Lister

The forests of Maine: 2003

In 1999, the Maine Forest Service and USDA Forest Services Forest Inventory and Analysis program implemented a new system for inventorying and monitoring Maines forests. The effects of the spruce budworm epidemic continue to affect the composition, structure, and distribution of Maines forested ecosystems. The area of forest land in Maine has remained stable since the 1970s. Although relatively small acreages of forest are converted to other land uses, these conversions often remove highly valued forests such as white pine. The total inventory volume of live trees increased slightly, indicating the beginning of a response of Maines forest to the tremendous devastation from spruce budworm.

Ohio forests: 2006

This report summarizes annual forest inventories conducted in Ohio from 2001 to 2006 by the Northern Research Stations Forest Inventory and Analysis unit. Ohios forest land covers 7.9 million acres or 30 percent of the States land area, changing little in forest land area since 1991. Of this land, 5.8 million acres (73 percent) are held by family forest owners. The current growing-stock inventory is 12.3 billion cubic feet--2 percent more than in 1991--and averages 1,603 cubic feet per acre. Yellow-poplar continues to lead in volume followed by red and sugar maples. Since 1991, the saw log portion of growing-stock volume has increased by 35 percent to 41 billion board feet. In the latest inventory, net growth exceeded removals for all major species except elm.

Annual inventory report for Pennsylvania's forests: results from the first two years.

In 2000, the USDA Forest Services Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program implemented a new system for inventory and monitoring Pennsylvania?s forest resources. The most salient benefit of the new inventory process will be a nearly threefold improvement in timeliness. This report summarizes the results of the first 2 years of annual inventory measurements. The area of forest land in Pennsylvania has remained stable since a previous inventory in 1989. The Keystone States forests continue to mature as larger trees and an increase in inventory volume were recorded. A separate study of tree seedlings revealed a general lack of regeneration in one-third to one-half of the stands in which regeneration should be adequate.

Pennsylvania's forest 2004.

Pennsylvanias forest-land base is stable, covering 16.6 million acres or 58 percent of the land area. Sawtimber volume totals 88.9 billion board feet, an average of about 5,000 board feet per acre. Currently, only half of the forest land that should have advance tree seedling and sapling regeneration is adequately stocked with high-canopy species, and only one-third has adequate regeneration for commercially desirable timber species. Several exotic diseases and insects threaten the health of Pennsylvanias forests. Stressors such as drought, acidic deposition, and ground-level ozone pollution are adversely affecting the States forests.

The forests of Connecticut

A report on the fourth forest inventory of Connecticut conducted in 1997-98 by the Forest Inventory and Analysis unit of the Northeastern Research Station. Explains the current condition and changes from previous inventories for forest area, timber volume, biomass, growth and removals, and harvesting. Graphics depict data at the state and geographic-unit level and, where appropriate, by county.

The Forests of Southern New England, 2007: A report on the forest resources of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island

This report summarizes the results of the fifth forest inventory of the forests of Southern New England, defined as Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, Forest Inventory and analysis program. Information on forest attributes, ownership, land use change, carbon, timber products, forest health, and statistics and quality assurance of data collection are included. There are 5.1 million acres of forest land across the region; 60 percent of this forest land is in Massachusetts, 33 percent in Connecticut, and 7 percent in Rhode Island. This amount has decreased by 5 percent since the last inventory was completed in 1998. There are 2.6 billion trees on this forest land that have total volume of 12.6 billion cubic feet. Red maple and eastern white pine are the most common species in terms of both numbers of trees and volume. Fifty percent of the forest land is classified as the oak-hickory forest type.

Austin's Urban Forest, 2014

An analysis of the urban forest in Austin, Texas, reveals that this area has an estimated 33.8 million trees with tree canopy that covers 30.8 percent of the city. The most common tree species are Ashe juniper, cedar elm, live oak, sugarberry, and Texas persimmon. Trees in Austin currently store about 1.9 million tons of carbon (7.0 million tons of carbon dioxide [CO2]); such storage is valued at

Comparative assessment of methods for estimating tree canopy cover across a rural-to-urban gradient in the mid-Atlantic region of the USA

242.0 million. In addition, these trees remove about 92,000 tons of carbon per year (336,000 tons CO2/year) (

Iowa's Forests 2008

11.6 million per year) and about 1,253 tons of air pollution per year (

West Virginia Forests 2013

2.8 million per year). Austins urban forest is estimated to reduce annual residential energy costs by