Forest Inventory and Analysis - Southern Research Station

State Inventory Data Status

Mississippi

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.

Report year

Annual Inventory- Moving Average Tables

Each year 20 percent of all FIA plots are measured in Mississippi. 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: Sonja N. Oswalt
phone:(865)862-2058
E-mail:soswalt@fs.fed.us

Most current complete survey data.

FIA Data and Tools

SRS FIA standard core tables in PDF format (coming soon)

Plot Tracking

Special Projects

Hurricane Katrina Impacts on Mississippi Forests

Bentley, James W.; Johnson, Tony G.; Howell, Michael. 2002. Mississippi's timber industry—an assessment of timber product output and use, 1999. Resour. Bull. SRS–80. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 40 p.

Hartsell, Andrew J. 1999. Financial returns on timberlands in Mississippi between 1977 and 1994. Starkville, MS: Mississippi State: 85 p. M.S. thesis.

Howell, M.; Johnson, T.G.; Bentley, J.W. 2005. Mississippi’s timber industry—an assessment of timber product output and use, 2002. Resour. Bull. SRS–102. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 45 p.

Jacobs, Dennis M. 2000. February 1994 ice storm: forest resource damage assessment in northern Mississippi. Resour. Bull. SRS–54. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 11 p.

Rosson, J.F., Jr. 2004. Stand characteristics of forest that have been land cleared on the lower Mississippi river alluvial plain, USA [Abstract]. In: 89th annual meeting of the ecological society of America. Lessons of Lewis and Clark, ecological exploration of inhabitated landscapes. Portland, OR: 438.

Rosson, J.F., Jr. 2004. Tree species associations over a large-scale sampling regime on the lower Mississippi river alluvial plain, USA [Abstract]. In: 47th annual meeting of the international association of vegetation science: landscape change and ecosystem disturbance, islands and continents. Kailua-Kona, HI.

Rosson, James F., Jr. 2001. Forest resources of Mississippi, 1994. Resour. Bull. SRS–61. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 78 p.

Rosson, James F., Jr. 2003. Temporal trends in forest stand structure on the lower Mississippi river alluvial plain physiographic section, USA. In: 17^th annual meeting of the society for conservation biology; Duluth, MN: [Publisher unknown]: 148. [Abstract].

Rosson, James F., Jr. 2003. Temporal trends in tree species richness on the lower Mississippi river alluvial plain, USA. In: Uplands to lowlands: coastal processes in a time of global change: The ecological society of America: 88^th annual meeting. Washington, DC: The Ecological Society of America: 288. [Abstract].

Rudis, Victor A. 2001. Composition, potential old growth, fragmentation, and ownership of Mississippi alluvial valley bottomland hardwoods: a regional assessment of historic change. In: Hamel, P.B.; Foti, T.L., tech. eds. Bottomland hardwoods of the Mississippi alluvial valley: characteristics and management of natural function, structure, and composition: proceedings of a symposium held during the natural areas conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–42. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 28–48.

Schweitzer, Callie Jo; Stanturf, John A. 1999. A comparison of large–scale reforestation techniques commonly used on abandoned fields in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. In: Haywood, James D., ed. Proceedings of the tenth biennial southern silvicultural research conference; 1999 February 16–18; Shreveport, LA. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–30. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 136–141.

Stanturf, John A.; Schweitzer, Callie J.; Gardiner, Emile S. 1998. Afforestation of marginal agricultural land in the lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley, U.S.A. Silva Fennica. 32(3): 281–297.

Stratton, Daniel P.; Howell, Michael; Romedy, Randal. 1998. Mississippi's timber industry––an assessment of timber product output and use, 1995. Resour. Bull. SRS–29. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 23 p.