Forest Inventory and Analysis - Southern Research Station

State Inventory Data Status

Kentucky

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 2006 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. Although changes are generally minimal, tables are sometimes updated periodically due to minor corrections made to the raw data when errors are found. In addition, this site is currently being developed and information not available now will be in the near future.

Report year

Annual Inventory- Moving Average Tables

Each year 20 percent of all FIA plots are measured in Kentucky. 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: Christopher M. Oswalt
phone:(865)862-2068
E-mail:coswalt@fs.fed.us

FIA Data and Tools

Plot Tracking with plot lists

Dataset Tracking Reports-Note: Please contact Ali Conner for permission to see the Dataset tracking reports

Cycle 6

Special Projects

Publications for Kentucky:

Bentley, James W.; Lowe, Larry. 2004. Kentucky's timber industry—an assessment of timber product output and use, 2001. Resour. Bull. SRS–90. Asheville, NC:U.S.Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 45 p.

Johnson, Tony G.; Lowe, Larry.2002. Kentucky’s timber industry—an assessment of timber product output and use, 1999. Resour. Bull. SRS–71. Asheville, NC: U.S.Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 45 p.

Oswalt, Christopher M.; Stringer, Jeffrey A.; Turner, Jeffery A.  2008.  Shifts in relative stocking of common tree species in Kentucky from 1975 to 2004.   In: Jacobs, Douglass F.; Michler, Charles H., eds. 2008. Proceedings, 16th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 2008 April 8-9; West Lafayette, IN. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-24. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 194-203.

Rosson, James F. Jr. 2008. Current forest conditions of older stands of the mixed mesophytic forest region on the Appalachian Plateaus Province of eastern Kentucky. In: Jacobs, Douglass F.; Michler, Charles H., eds. 2008. Proceedings, 16th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 2008 April 8-9; West Lafayette, IN. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-24. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 213-222.

Salajanu, Dumitru; Jacobs, Dennis M.  2007.  Accuracy assessment of biomass and forested area classification from modis, landstat-tm satellite imagery and forest inventory plot data.   In: ASPRS 2007 annual Conference. Tampa, Florida. May 7-11. 10 p

Turner, Jeffery A.; Oswalt, Christopher M.; Chamberlain, James L.; Conner, Roger C.; Johnson, Tony G.; Oswalt, Sonja N.; Randolph, Kadonna C. 2008. Kentucky's forests, 2004. Resour. Bull. SRS–129. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 101 p.