Weighting for the USDA Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey

Weighting for the USDA Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey
Author: Brett J. Butler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service's National Woodland Owner Survey (NWOS) collects information on the attitudes, behaviors, and general characteristics of private forest ownerships across the United States. An area-based sample design that results in inclusion probabilities proportional to size of forest holdings is used to select ownerships to participate in the survey. In order to make accurate population-level estimates, this sample design must be incorporated into the estimators. In this report, a weighting approach for generating estimates of totals, means, proportions, and quartiles from NWOS data in terms of ownerships and acreages is presented, along with a bootstrapping approach for estimation of the associated variances. In addition to presenting a theoretical justification for the approach, the estimators are validated using data from a fully enumerated population. An R package for implementing the estimators is available on GitHub (https://github.com/familyforestresearchcenter/nwos).

Supplemental Information on National Woodland Owner Survey 2011-2013 Two-page Summary Reports

Supplemental Information on National Woodland Owner Survey 2011-2013 Two-page Summary Reports
Author: Brett J. Butler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 6
Release: 2016
Genre: Forest surveys
ISBN:

This document provides explanations of the data sources, graphics, and summaries presented in the 41 national, regional, and state National Woodland Owner Survey 2011-2013 two-page research note summary reports (Research Note NRS-206 through Research Note NRS-246). All of these research notes can be accessed at www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/.

Wildlife Habitats in Managed Forests

Wildlife Habitats in Managed Forests
Author: Jack Ward Thomas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1979
Genre: Forest animals
ISBN:

That is what this book is about. It is a framework for planning, in which habitat is the key to managing wildlife and making forest managers accountable for their actions. This book is based on the collective knowledge of one group of resource professionals and their understanding about how wildlife relate to forest habitats. And it provides a longoverdue system for considering the impacts of changes in forest structure on all resident wildlife.