East-West Forestry Associates, Inc.

Selected List of Recent Projects


Forest Inventory

Urban Forestry

Forest Management

International

Data Management, Analysis & Reporting

Publications

Other projects

About East-West Forestry


Forest Inventory

*2007 US Forest Service, McClellan, CA FIA contract inventories on Modoc National Forest.

*2006. US Forest Service, McClellan, CA FIA contract inventories on 5 northern California national forests

*2004-2007. FIA inventory of the Angeles, Los Padres, San Bernardino, Sierra, Sequoia National Forests (500 FIA plots)

*2004-5 Common Stand Exam Mendocino and Shasta-Trinity National Forests (965 plots)

*2004 Southern California Mortality Project. 111 4-point FIA plots on the San Bernardino, Angeles and Cleveland National Forests completed 31 May 2004.. RSL project.

*2002. Forest Inventory (National Core FIA) inventory for Lassen and Klamath National Forests in conjunction with PNW Portland FIA Unit and Remote Sensing Lab, Sacramento


Forest Management

*2007. Detailed commentary for non-profit on California Forest Practice "Option A" management for 34000 acre redwood forest.

*2001. Natural Forest Network. Started this project to add value to- and facilitate marketing for FSC Certified Forest Products

*2000 Member of SmartWood Certification Taskforce which certified Roseberg Forest Products.

* 1992-94. Prepared 3 Non-Industrial Forest Management Plans (5000 acres in all), now a model for the Institute of Sustainable Forestry.

Urban Forestry

*2005-7. City of Atascadero. Native Vegetation Mapping and Inventory and Development/Management of Urban Oak Restoration Project

*2003-4 Fire Safe Management of Wildland Urban Interface, Inverness, California. funded by National Park Service.

*2001. TreeTown urban forest inventory system and ForestServer analysis tool downloadable at our website www.forestdata.com

*2001. Preparing Park Management plan for recently acquired mountaintop stand of old growth redwood timber in Sonoma County, California.

*2000-2001. Member of California Oak Mortality Task Force.

* 1997-1998 Helping in the development of a Conservation Easement on 6000 acres of Mendocino and Trinity County Lands >6000 acres).

* 1992-3. Prepare a Vegetation Management Plan: member of core team and developer of natural resource baseline GIS coverages for 20000 acres MarinCounty, Ca. water district.

International

*2007 Editor of Society of American Foresters International Forestry newsletter

*2007 GIS analysis of carbon plantations in Nigeria

*2007 Developed professional foresters' Tour of Western Australia

*2006 Developed professional foresters' Tour of Tasmania and South Australia

*2005 Developed professional foresters' Tour of New Zealand

*1994-2000 Developed numerous Mexico/California forestry and student exchange programs

*1980's Agroforestry project development in Roseau, Dominica

Data Management, Analysis & Reporting

*2007 Developed Crane Mills Access Inventory Database Structure and Import/Export/Analytical utilities

*2007 Developing Carbon Inventory of California from FIA data

*2003-2007 Osprey nest monitoring and database development for Marin Municipal Water District

*2006. Climate Action Registry: Forest Protocols Certifiers

*2006. Crane Mills, Corning, CA Automated forest inventory procedures and developed custom programs for handheld data recorders

*2005. Redwood Sciences Lab. FIA and CVS data analysis for endangered species habitat suitability project

*2004-2005. Process 2300 CVS cluster plots and 1100 Region 5 Inventory Plots for a habitat suitability analysis project for Redwood Sciences Lab.

*2003-2005 East-West Forestry Associates provides full-time on site vegetation mapping staff at USFS Remote Sensing Lab. Mapped the Sierra and Los Padres National Forest Vegetation (over 3.5 million acres in all).

*2002 Fisher Habitat Data Analysis for Redwood Sciences Lab

*2002. Prepare a variety of GIS Mapping products for landowners in the Klamath BioRegion and the Sierra Nevada

*2001 and 2000. Fisher and Goshawk Habitat Monitoring Projects on Sequoia, Sierra and Stanislaus National Forests for USFS Redwood Sciences Lab, Arcata.

* 1997 Garcia River Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) slides mapping project--completed.

* 1997-8 Restoration Needs of the Sierra Nevada (GIS and Economic Analysis by Watershed)

Publications

*2007. Columnist in local news on Sudden Oak Death, range and wilderness management.

*2006. Published Fisher Habitat Suitability Study in Ecological Applications,16(3),2006,pp.1010–1025 with personnel from USFS-PSW Redwood Sciences Lab

*2006. Oaks 2040: An Oak Restoration Strategy for California. For the California Oak Foundation.

*2002. Published an inventory of oaks on US Forest Service Lands California

Other Projects

*2002. Forest Inventory (National Core FIA) inventory for Southern California. in conjunction with PNW Portland FIA Unit and Remote Sensing Lab, Sacramento

*2001. Updated inventory and transectmethodology projects for US Forest Service, Mendocino National Forest, TrinityNational Forest.

*2000. Region 5 Forest Inventories Tahoe, Eldorado and Plumas National Forests.

* 1997-8 Restoration Needs of the Sierra Nevada (GIS and Economic Analysis by Watershed)

* 1997-8. Integrated Inventory monitoring plot installation (fuels, timber, API, vegetation, GPS, CALVEG type classification, habitat) Sierra, Shasta-Trinity, Six Rivers and Klamath National Forests.

* 1998. Fire Safe Seahaven. Prepared Fire-Safe Management Plan,wrote CDF grant request (which obtained funding), and helped to organize andimplement community committee's fire safe projects.

* 1995-97. Integrated Inventory monitoring plot installation (fuels, timber, vegetation, GPS, CALVEG, habitat) Angeles and Los Padres National Forests.

* 1995. Fire Restoration Plan for private lands at PointReyes. "After the Vision Fire".

* 1995. Develop redwood ingrowth and inventory models sustaining industrial redwood lands..

* 1994. Integrated Inventory (fuels, timber, CALVEG, habitat) Inyo National Forest

* 1994. Development of BaseMap2000 stand alone vector GIS system

* 1994. Prepared Arc/Info Forest Type Coverage for 87,000 acrenorthern California Indian Reservation through aerial photographyinterpreation.

* 1993. Urban and Community Forest Plans for San Mateo and Asilomar, an urban State Park along the central California Coast.

* 1992. Old Growth and Habitat Inventory contract Mendocino National Forest

* 1992 Headwaters Forest Inventory.

* 1990-1991. USFS Plantation Inventory contracts Tahoe National Forest

* 1988-1990. CDF Contract: Jackson State Forest Inventory (2600 1/5acre plots)

* 1983-1993. Developed and supported FACTAL/APPRAISE forest inventory program used for inventory of over 1 million acres of forestlands throughout the US