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North Central Research Station
1992 Folwell Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108

(651) 649-5000

United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service.

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FIA Map Maker

FIA Map Maker produces tables and maps from the USDA Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis Data Base (FIADB).
The user inputs the following information:

  1. geographic area of interest (state/county retrieval or radius retrieval)
  2. attribute of interest (timberland area, number of trees, growing-stock volume, etc.)
  3. optional filters (for restricting the query to a specific ownership, species, etc.)
  4. classification variables to be used for columns and rows and the web application generates the resulting table. If the user selects County or Congressional District as the row variable a shaded county map is generated.

 
Atmospheric Deposition National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) 
Since 1978, the North Central Research Station has sponsored two sites that measure the chemistry of rain and snow. One is located at North Central's Marcell Experimental Forest in northern Minnesota (Chippewa National Forest), the other is located at the Wellston Field Lab west of Cadillac, MI (Huron-Manistee National Forest). NADP is a long-term monitoring and research data base describing the chemical climate of America. It is the highest quality precipitation chemistry data base in the world! Over 200 sites can be accessed through this link. The data base is housed at the Illinois State Water Survey in Champaign, IL. They coordinate a cooperative effort of the U. S. Forest Service along with many other federal, state, and industry sponsors. These data are used by the Forest Service for nutrient cycling research, administration of the Clean Air Act in Forest Service Class I Wilderness Areas and for day to day monitoring of rain acidity and mercury in rain. The North Central Research Station established the first long-term monitoring site in this program on July 3, 1978 to provide basic chemistry for ecosystem studies and test the effectiveness of the Clean Air Act and Amendments. In 1993, the North Central Research Station began the first international monitoring network for mercury in precipitation with a station at Marcell, MN, Buffalo, NY, and Champaign, IL. In 1996, the North Central Station turned a functioning international network of 16 station over to the Illinois State Water Survey. Today this program encompasses over 40 mercury sites in the United States and Canada. Basic studies on the fate of mercury in the environment are carried out at the Marcell Experimental Forest in cooperation with the University of Minnesota, and the Science Museum of Minnesota. AT this site you will find detailed local data, examine national and international maps of precipitation chemistry, and to download historic data for any location.

 
NORTHWOODS NORTHWOODS is a wildlife-habitat electronic database compiled through a joint effort of the USDA Forest Service's North Central Forest Experiment Station (NCFES) and seven national forests in the Upper Great Lakes Region: Chippewa, Superior, Chequamegon, Nicolet, Ottawa, Hiawatha, and Huron-Manistee. Each forest provided a wildlife-habitat database which the NCFES edited and revised to one common format. These seven databases were combined to form one new database (NORTHWOODS) representative of wildlife-habitat relationships throughout the region.
The NORTHWOODS database is a compilation of information about the habitat needs of 389 species of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals in the Upper Great Lakes Region. It includes data such as common and scientific names of each wildlife species, occurrence of each species in 20 aquatic and terrestrial habitat types, species abundance and season of use in each of seven national forests, and Federal threatened or endangered status. A thorough description of this database and summaries of data queries are included in a 1992 Research Paper, "Wildlife of the Upper Great Lakes Region: A Community Profile," by Janine M. Benyus, Richard R. Buech, and Mark D. Nelson, North Central Forest Experiment Station (RP-NC-301).

USDA Forest Service - North Central Research Station
Last Modified: Monday, 19 July 2004


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