Timothy G. Gregoire

J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., Professor of Forest Management

Resource Inventory Notes

The contents of all 45 issues of Info – Resource Inventory Notes (1975-1976), Resource Inventory Notes (1976-1980), and Resources Evaluation Newsletter (1980-1981) have been scanned into pdf documents and are available for public downloading below.

Resource Inventory Notes 1975-1976 | 1976-1980
Resources Evaluation Newsletter 1980-1981

These contents are listed by issue, author, and title. All three series of notes, which until now had been available only in the original paper format, were originated by Gyde Lund as a service to the resource inventory community and were early precursors to the present electronic newsletter Forest Information Update (FIU). Many of the articles in INFO, RIN and REN are still applicable today.

The USFS State and Private Northeast Area issued Info – Resource Inventory Notes between 1975 and 1976 to serve as a place to exchange ideas on field and office inventory techniques. It was a follow-up to an older USFS newsletter – Forest Control by Continuous Forest Inventory. In 1976, Lund transferred to the USDI Bureau of Land Management and continued to produce Resource Inventory Notes (RIN), but with the BLM logo. In 1979, Gyde transferred to Ft. Collins, Colorado as part of a multi-agency Resource Evaluation Techniques (RET) program and started producing the Resources Evaluation Newsletter (REN). This replaced RIN and was expanded to cover land classification, remote sensing and data analysis as well as inventory techniques. REN continued until the RET program closed in 1982.

From 1982 – 1996, under the editorship of Gyde, the International Union of Forestry Research Organization Subject Group 4.02 began issuing its own newsletter, which incorporated many of the items found in REN and RIN. All of these past newsletters were in hardcopy. Two years after retiring from the federal service, Lund started producing the electronic newsletter Forest Information Update (FIU) in March 1999. Back issues of FIU may be found at http://joyx.joensuu.fi/listserv/forest-list.html

Info – Resource Inventory Notes
Issue	Date	Author	Title	Page

1(1)	7/1975	Anon	Resource Inventory Notes	1
		Anon	Current Literature	2
		Anon	Meetings	3
		Anon	Miscellaneous	4

1(2)	11/1975	Lund, H. G.	Definitions	1
		Anon	Current Literature	4
		Anon	Meetings	5
		Anon	Miscellaneous	6

1(3)	12/1975	Lund, H. G.	Regional, Management-based, and Intensive Inventories	1
		Anon	Current Literature	3
		Anon	Meetings	5
		Anon	Miscellaneous	6

1(4)	1/1976	Lund, H. G.	Inventory Planning	1
		Anon	Current Literature	4
		Anon	Meetings	7
		Anon	Miscellaneous	7

1(5)	3/1976	Goldsmith, L. & Russell, P. & Barrett, J. P.	A Computer 3P Game	1
		Anon	Current Literature	5
		Anon	Meetings	10
		Anon	Miscellaneous	11

1(6)	5/1976	Johnson, E. W.	Information Needed and the Design of an Inventory	1
		Anon	Current Literature	4
		Anon	Meetings	7
		Anon	Miscellaneous	8

1(7)	7/1976	Lund, H. G. & LaBau, V. J.	4PEA Sampling	1
		Anon	Current Literature	3
		Anon	Meetings	7
		Anon	Miscellaneous	7
Resource Inventory Notes
BLM-1	9/1976	Lund, G.	3P or Not 3P	1
		Anon.	Current Literature	8
		Anon.7	Miscellaneous	11

BLM-2	11/1976	Wiant, H.V.	A test of the statistical validity of a 3P and point sampling design	1
		Anon	Current Literature	4
		Anon	Miscellaneous	8

BLM-3	1/1977	Grieger, J.R.	Inventorying the Urban Forest	1
		Anon	Current Literature	5
		Anon	Miscellaneous	9

BLM-4	3/1977	Wiant, H. & Castaneda, F.	Mesavage and Girard’s Volume Tables Formulated	1

BLM-5	5/1977	Kingsinger, F.	Sampling Precision and Probability	1
		Anon	Current Literature	5

BLM-6	7/1977	Wiant, H.V.	An Illustration of List Sampling	1
		Anon	Current Literature	5
		Anon	Miscellaneous	12

BLM-7	9/1977	Getter, J.R.	Forest Site Index Mapping and Yield	1
		Creighton, T.	Model Inputs to Determine Potential Site Productivity
		Anon	Current Literature	11

BLM-8	11/1977	Wiant, H.V.	Comparison of Point- 3P Sampling Designs	1

BLM-9	1/1978	Ashley, B.	Some Basic Considerations When Sampling Small Woodlands	1

BLM-10	3/978	Frayer, W.E.	Stratification in Double Sampling – “The Easy Way Out May Sometimes Be the Best Way”	1
		Anon	Current Literature	4

BLM-11	5/1978	Estola, J.D.	3-P Random Numbers and a Handheld Programmable Calculator	1
		Anon	Current Literature	4
		Anon	Miscellaneous	9

BLM-12	7/1978	ZÃ¶hrer, F.	On The Precision of Dot Grid Estimates	1
		Anon	Current Literature	6
		Anon	Miscellaneous	14

BLM-13	9/1978	Lund, H.G.	Inplace, Multiple Resource Inventories At Budget Prices	1
		Wiant, H.V.	Sampling For Weight in Appalachian Hardwoods	8
		Anon	Current Literature	10
		Anon	Miscellaneous	16

BLM-14	10/1978	Rennie, J. & Wiant, H. V.	Modification of Freese’s Chi-Square Test of Accuracy	1
		Wiant, H. V.	A Shortcut for the Development of Weight Yield Tables	4
		Anon	Current Literature	7

BLM-15	11/1978	Lund, G.	Type Maps, Stratified Sampling and P.P.S.	1
		Anon	Current Literature	14

BLM-16	12/1978	Wiant, H. V.	A Technique for Combining Related Regressions into One Equation	1
		Anon	Current Literature	5

BLM-17	1/1979	Estola, J. D.	Variable Radius Plot and 3P Timber Sampling	1
		Hansen, G. D.	Height Accumulation for Programmable Calculators	6
		Anon	Current Literature	11
		Anon	Meetings and Workshops	13

BLM-18	2/1979	Nicholas, J.D.	Multi-Stage and Multi-Phase Sampling	1
		Anon	Current Literature	8
		Anon	Miscellaneous	13

BLM-19	3/1979	Fowler, G. W. & Hauke, D.	A Distribution-Free Method For Interval Estimation and Sample Size Determination	1
		Castaneda, F.	Converting Outside Bark to Inside Diameters	9
		Anon	Current Literature	12
		Anon	Meetings	15

BLM-20	4/1979	Welch, D. & Wiken, E.	Canada Committee on Ecological Land Classification	1
		Chevrou, R. B.	The Precision of Dot Grid Estimates: A Theoretical Approach	3
		Anon	Current Literature	7
		Anon	Meetings	10

BLM-21	5/1979	Hassler, C. & Fountain, M. S.	Metrification of Mesavage’s Form Class 78 and 80 Cubic-foot Volume Tables	1
		Costello, T. & Lund, H. G.	BLM’s Standard, Non-standard, Stand Inventory System	5
		Anon	Current Literature	15
		Anon	Meetings	19

BLM-22	6/1979	Hanson, R.E.	Preparation of Maps for Manual Digitalization	1
		Oderwald, R., Wellman, J., & Buhyoff, G.	Unequal Probability Sampling with Replacement and without Replacement	9
		Lund, H. G.	Uniformly Distributing Samples Within a Type Island	13
		Anon	Current Literature	21
		Anon	Meetings	23

BLM-23	7/1979	Fowler, G.W. & Davis, C.F.	Sampling Natural Resource Populations: Mutually Exclusive Fixed-Area Sampling Units	1
		Taaffe, K. E.	Computing Optimum Plot Size for Wildland Inventories	8
		Patil, G. P.	The Satellite Program in Statistical Ecology	16
		Anon	Current Literature	19
		Anon	Meetings	21

BLM-24	8/1979	Fowler, G. W. & Bigelow, F.	How useful is the Coefficient of Determination in Multiple Linear Regression?	1
		Wiant, H.V.	A Note on Double Sampling- Point Sampling	14
		Anon	Current Literature	15
		Anon	Meetings	20

BLM-25	9/1979	Fowler, G.W.	Sampling of Natural Resource Populations: Comparison of Estimators	1
		Anon	Current Literature	8
		Anon	Meetings	10

BLM-26	11/1979	Gregoire, T. G. & Barrett, J. P.	The Effect of Sample Size on Coefficient of Variation Estimation	1
		Cunia, T.	A World-Wide Review of the Problem Of National Forest Inventory Systems	9
		Wiant, H. V.	Deriving a Local Volume Table from A Stand and Stock Table	18
		Anon	Current Literature	20
		Anon	Meetings	22

BLM-27	2/1980	Fowler, G. W.	Nonparametric Statistical Procedures for Comparing Populations	1
		Carson, W. H.	100% Mark With 3P Sample or Multistage 3P Cruising: Which Method Should a Forest Manager Use?	8
		Anon	Errata	10
		Anon	Current Literature	11
		Anon	Meetings	14
Resources Evaluation Newsletter
REN-1	3/1980	Lund, H. G.	What’s This Newsletter All About?	1
		Turman, D.	In-place Data	1
		Anon	BLM’s R.I.S.	3
		Anon	R. E. T.	3
		Anon	Current Literature	4
		Anon	Meetings, Workshops, & Symposia	6

REN-2	5/1980	Barnes, R. B.	A Procedure To Develop Location Coordinates for Sample Points From Inventory Sampling	1
		Anon	Customized Forest Information Retrieval	3
		Anon	Current Literature	3
		Anon	Meetings, Workshops, & Symposia	6

REN-3	7/1980	Wiant, H. V.	Point-Sampling Factors for Appalachian Hardwoods	1
		Anon	Development of an Interagency National Site (Land) Classification System for Natural Resource Assessments	3
		Anon	ISTF Reactivated	5
		Anon	From Down South	5
		Anon	Site Index Curves for Pinus oocarpa	5
		Anon	Current Literature	5
		Anon	Meetings, Workshops, & Symposia	9

REN-4	9/1980	Lund, H. G. & Schreuder, H. T.	Aggregating Inventories	1
		Ulliman, J. J & Grah, O. J.	Marking Pens for Aerial Photographs and Transparency Materials	3
		Anon	State Natural Heritage Programs and the National Heritage Policy Act	5
		Anon	International Group on Hydrologic Application of Remote Sensing and Data Transmission	7
		Anon	EROS Data Center Training Aids	8
		Anon	Forestry Programs for Progammable Calculators	8
		Anon	Current Literature	8
		Anon	Meetings, Workshops, & Symposia	10

REN-5	11/1980	Davis, S.	IMGRID as a Tool For Wildlife Planning	1
		Wiant, H. V. & Yandle, D. O.	Complete Tally vs. Sample Cruise	5
		Anon	Call for Papers	7
		Anon	Short Courses Slated	7
		Anon	Current Literature	8
		Anon	Meetings, Workshops, & Symposia	10

REN-6	1/1981	Romesburg, H. C	Randomization Tests	1
		Anon	1980 RPA Assessment Data Files Available for Distribution	3
		Anon	Inplace Resource Inventories: Principles and Practices	4
		Anon	Habitat Evaluation Procedures	5
		Anon	Interagency Wildlife Group (IWG) Activities	5
		Anon	Current Literature	6
		Anon	Meetings, Workshops, & Symposia	11

REN-7	3/1981	Issacson, D. I., Smith, H. G. & Spink, L. R	Use of Remote Sensing Data in a Wildfire Rehabilitation Project	1
		Wiant, H. V. & Wingerd, D. E	Computer Program For Point-Sample Biomass Cruising of Appalachian Hardwoods	3
		Anon	The National Resource Inventory Techniques Project	6
		Anon	Interagency Wildlife Group (IWG) Activities	7
		Anon	Call for Presentations: 1981 Joint AIN/WIA National Workshop	7
		Anon	Seventh Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada	8
		Anon	Current Literature	8
		Anon	Meetings, Workshops, & Symposia	11

REN-8	5/1981	Dull, C. W.	LORAN-C Navigation	1
		Jager, D.	How to Obtain Large Basal Area Factors With an American Scale Spiegel Relaskop	2
		Bailey, R. G.	The Landform Component in Land Classification	3
		Schreuder, H. T. & Lund, G.	Improved Estimates Through Sample Selection and Estimation	6
		Anon	Current Literature	9
		Anon	Meetings, Workshops, & Symposia	12

REN-9	7/1981	Fowler, G. W.	Testing For Normality	1
		Greentree, W. J. & Labau, V. J.	Considerations in Using Metric Measurements units for Timber Inventories	5
		Anon	Interagency Wildlife Group (IWG) Activities	10
		Anon	Metric Reporter	10
		Anon	Resource Inventories for Monitoring Change and Trends	11
		Anon	Current Literature	11
		Anon	Meetings, Workshops, & Symposia	15

REN-10	9/1981	Rockwood, D. L. & Riman, D. K.	Stand and Stock Table Preparation Using A Programmable Calculator	1
		Smith, W. B. & Weist, C. A.	Getting More Out of Word Processing	2
		Anon	Call for Papers	4
		Anon	Current Literature	4
		Anon	Meetings, Workshops, & Symposia	7

REN-11	11/1981	Smith, W. B. & Weist, C.	A Method For Digitizing Inventory Plot Locations in the UTM Coordinate System	1
		Hobbs, D. & Halbach, T.	Streamside Management Zone Inventory	3
		Titus, S. J.	A Useful Function for Making Growth Estimates with Partial Replacement Sampling	4
		Anon	Remote Sensing Instruction Materials	7
		Anon	Classification	7
		Anon	Current Literature	7
		Anon	Meetings, Workshops, & Symposia	9