Forest Inventory and Analysis - Southern Research Station

State Inventory Data Status

Arkansas

Below are tables and inventory information summaries for current and previous FIA surveys and analytical reports. Tables are provided for each report year and can be downloaded as a pdf file (requires Adobe reader) or as Excel spreadsheets. Currently, the tables differ among report years. Beginning with the 2005 report year, a standard set (1-35) will be produced to assist in trend analysis. Definitions for terms used in the reports and tables are provided in the SRS-FIA Standard Glossary. Electronic copies of the reports are available at www.srs.fs.fed.us/pubs/ or hardcopies can be obtained by phoning SRS Science Delivery Group (828-257-4830) or sending an email to pubrequest@fs.fed.us.

Report year

Annual Inventory- Moving Average

Each year 20 percent of all FIA plots are measured in Arkansas. Spatially distributed across the state, the most recent plots collected are added to the previous four years of plots to represent a full compliment of data averaged over five years. The moving average allows some assessment of the small change occurring annually.

Data Requests: All data requests are to be made through Spatial Data Services

SRS FIA Analyst: James F. Rosson Jr.
phone:(865)862-2067
E-mail:jrosson@fs.fed.us

Most current complete survey data.

FIA Data and Tools

Plot Trackingwith plot lists

Publications for Arkansas:

Bentley, J.W.; Howell, M.; Johnson, T.G. 2005. Arkansas’ timber industry—an assessment of timber product output and use, 2002. Resour. Bull. SRS–99. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 43 p.

Bentley, James W.; Johnson, Tony G.; Howell. Michael. 2002. Arkansas' timber industry–an assessment of timber product output and use, 1999. Resour. Bull. SRS–79. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 40 p.

Faulkner, Joanne L. 2001. Arkansas forests, 1600–1988. In: Guldin, James M., tech comp. Proceedings of the symposium on Arkansas forests: a conference on the results of the recent forest survey of Arkansas. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–41. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 7–10.

Howell, Michael; Levins, Robert. 1998. Arkansas' timber industry–an assessment of timber product output and use, 1996. Resour. Bull. SRS–28. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 23 p.

Rosson, J.F., Jr. 2004. Oak mortality trends on the interior highlands of Arkansas. In: Spetich, M.A. ed. Proceedings of Upland oak ecology symposium: history, current conditions, and sustainability. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–73. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 229–235.

Rosson, James F., Jr. 2001. Arkansas forests, 1988–1996: highlights of the timberland resource from the seventh forest survey of Arkansas. In: Guldin, James M., tech. comp. Proceedings of the symposium on Arkansas forests: a conference on the results of the recent forest survey of Arkansas. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–41. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 11–16.

Rosson, James F., Jr. 2002. Forest resources of Arkansas. 1995. Resour. Bull. SRS–78. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 82 p.

Rosson, James F., Jr. 2003. Temporal forest-stand dynamics on the interior highland of Arkansas between 1968 and 1995. In: Ecosystems in transition: 4^th North American forest ecology workshop. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University: 119. [Abstract].

Rudis, Victor A. 2001. Landscape context and regional patterns in Arkansas' forests. In: Guldin. James M., tech. comp. Proceedings of the symposium on Arkansas forests: a conference on the results of the recent forest survey of Arkansas. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–41. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 24–45.