Forests of the Tanana Valley State Forest and Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska : results of the 2014 pilot inventory / technical coordinators, Robert Pattison [and five others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Pattison, Robert, author.

Anderson, Hans-Erik, author.

Gray, Andrew, author.

Schulz, Bethany, author.

Smith, Robert J., author.

Jovan, Sarah, author.

Manies, Kristen, author.

McCune, Bruce, author.

Babcock, Chad, author.

Cook, Bruce D. (Bruce Douglas), author.

Morton, Doug, author.

Finley, Andrew, author.

Contributor:

Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.), issuing body.

Series:

General technical report PNW ; 967.

General technical report PNW ; 967

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forests and forestry--Alaska--Tanana River Valley.

Forests and forestry.

Forests and forestry--Alaska--Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge.

Forest surveys--Alaska--Tanana River Valley.

Forest surveys.

Forest surveys--Alaska--Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge.

Forest ecology--Alaska--Tanana River Valley.

Forest ecology.

Forest ecology--Alaska--Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge.

Tanana Valley State Forest (Alaska)--Environmental conditions.

Tanana Valley State Forest (Alaska).

Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska)--Environmental conditions.

Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska).

Ecology.

Alaska--Tanana Valley State Forest.

Alaska--Tanana River Valley.

Alaska--Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge.

Genre:

Online resources.

technical reports.

Technical reports

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

Place of Publication:

Portland, OR : United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, June 2018.

Summary:

This report highlights key findings from a test ("pilot") of an interior Alaska forest inventory design. The pilot inventoried the forests of the Tanana Valley State Forest (TVSF) and the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge (TNWR) in the Tanana River Valley of interior Alaska, covering 2.5 million ac. The inventory consisted of a systematic grid of 98 field-measured plots integrated with NASA's Goddard- LiDAR/Hyperspectral/Thermal (G-LiHT) imaging system. We summarize and interpret basic resource information such as forest area, ownership, volume, carbon stocks in trees, ground layers, dead wood, and soils; and vegetation community structure and composition. The black spruce forest type covered 49 percent of the forested area. Most of the aboveground live tree biomass was found in Alaska birch and black spruce forest types, but white spruce forest types had the highest mean aboveground live tree biomass per acre. Standing dead tree biomass was 8 percent of the amount in the live tree pool, with the greatest amounts in the white spruce forest type. Soil carbon per acre in the measured layers was highest in black spruce forests and lowest in aspen forests. Biomass of ground layers (i.e., moss and lichen mats) was almost twice as high on black spruce forests than on other forest types. Shrub and grass cover were comparable among units, but forb cover was greater on TVSF than on TNWR. The design and protocols tested during this pilot were refined for the implementation of the large-scale inventory of forests of interior Alaska that started in 2016

Notes:

"June 2018."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-75).

Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (USFS, viewed December 14, 2018).

Other Format:

Print version: Pattison, Robert. Forests of the Tanana Valley State Forest and Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska

OCLC:

1078921825