The Wildlands & Woodlands Reports: Frequently Requested Figures

Figure 1 from 2017 W&W Report

Figure 2 from 2017 W&W Report - Data from: Hansen, M. C., R. S. DeFries, J. R. G. Townshend, M. Carroll, C. Dimiceli, and R. A. Sohlberg. 2003. Global percent tree cover at a spatial resolution of 500 meters: First results of the MODIS vegetation continuous fields algorithm. Earth Interactions 7:1–15.

Figure 3 from 2017 W&W Report. Modified from Foster and Aber (2004) with additional data from USFS FIA state reports. Foster, D. R. and J. D. Aber. 2004. Forests in time. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Figure 4 from 2017 W&W Report. Data compiled from U.S. Agricultural Census reports by Brian Donahue and Sarah Sutton at Brandeis University.

Figure 5 from 2017 W&W Report. Data from: Olofsson, P., C. E. Holden, E. L. Bullock, and C. E. Woodcock. 2016. Time series analysis of satellite data reveals continuous deforestation of New England since the 1980s. Environmental Research Letters 11(6):1–8 Homer, C. G., J. A. Dewitz, L. Yang, S. Jin, P. Danielson, G. Xian, J. Coulston, N. D. Herold, J. D. Wickham, and K. Megown. 2015. Completion of the 2011 National Land Cover Database for the conterminous United States— representing a decade of land cover change information. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 81(5):345–354.

Figure 6 from 2017 W&W Report. 2011 Land cover data is from the NLCD: Homer, C. G. et al. 2015 (see cited ref #8). Watershed boundaries were simplified from the USGS hydrologic unit codes. Protected open space data is from Harvard Forest and Highstead.

Figure 7 from the 2017 W&W Report. Data from: Nowak, D. J., S. Hirabayashi, A. Bodine, and E. Greenfield. 2014. Tree and forest effects on air quality and human health in the United States. Environmental Pollution 193:119–129.

Figure 8 from 2017 W&W Report. Data from: Kellndorfer, J., Walker, W., LaPoint, E., Bishop, J., Cormier, T., Fiske, G., Hoppus, M., Kirsch, K., and Westfall, J. 2012. NACP Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Baseline Data (NBCD 2000), U.S.A., 2000. Data set. Available on-line at http://daac.ornl.gov from ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Figure 9 from 2017 W&W Report. Data from: Thompson, J. R., J. S. Plisinski, P. Olofsson, C. Holden, and M. Duveneck. In Review. Forest loss in New England: A projection of recent trends. Olofsson, P., C. E. Holden, E. L. Bullock, and C. E. Woodcock. 2016. Time series analysis of satellite data reveals continuous deforestation of New England since the 1980s. Environmental Research Letters 11(6):1–8. Homer, C. G., J. A. Dewitz, L. Yang, S. Jin, P. Danielson, G. Xian, J. Coulston, N. D. Herold, J. D. Wickham, and K. Megown. 2015. Completion of the 2011 National Land Cover Database for the conterminous United States— representing a decade of land cover change information. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 81(5):345–354.

Figure 10 from 2017 W&W Report. Data from: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Gap Analysis Program (GAP). 2016. Protected areas database of the US, PAD-US (CBI Edition). The Nature Conservancy (TNC). 2014. Secured lands geodatabase. Thompson, J. R., J. S. Plisinski, P. Olofsson, C. Holden, and M. Duveneck. In Review. Forest loss in New England: A projection of recent trends. James W. Sewall Co. 2015. Geospatial mapping.

Figure 11 from 2017 W&W Report. Data from the Harvard Forest, Highstead, and individual organizations.

Figure 12 from 2017 W&W Report. Adapted from Meyer, S. R., C. S. Cronan, R. J. Lillieholm, M. L. Johnson, and D. R. Foster. 2014. Land conservation in northern New England: Historic trends and alternative conservation futures. Biological Conservation 174: 152–160.

Figure 13 from 2017 W&W Report. Forest cover data from Olofsson et al. 2016 and Homer et al. 2015 (see cited refs #7 and 8). See Thompson et al. In Review (cited ref #19) for methods. Conservation data from USGS 2016 (cited ref #26). Full figure references available in the full report.

Figure 14 from 2017 W&W Report. Data primarily from Highstead and the Trust for Public Land. Complete references available in M. Buchanan. 2016. Public conservation funding in New England: recent trends in government spending on land protection. Highstead, Redding, CT.

Figure 15a from Wildlands & Woodlands Report. Data from W. Labich and individual RCPs.

Figure 15b from Wildlands & Woodlands 2017 Report. Data from W. Labich and individual RCPs.

Figure 17 from 2017 W&W Report. Data from: Community Forest Collaborative. 2007. Community forests: a community investment strategy.

Figure 18 from 2017 W&W Report. Data from: MassGIS. 2016. Community Preservation Act (CPA) Towns. Office of Geographic Information (MassGIS), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, MassIT.