Tongass National Forest

Reference Library

This section of the Website provides access to important documents and references used during the adjustment and update efforts.

Forest Plan Amendment and NEPA Documents

• Notice of Intent – notice in the Federal Register on March 28, 2006 that the Forest Service is preparing an Environmental Impact Statement evaluating a potential significant amendment to the Forest Plan.
• Study Plan (based on 1982 Planning Regulations) – the study plan that is providing guidance to the Forest Plan adjustment process
• Procedures for Conducting an Integrated Timber Operability Analysis – detailed procedures for the ongoing integrated timber operability analysis, including the development of a Tongass-wide logging system and transportation analysis (LSTA)

General Planning References

• 1982 NFMA Planning Regulations – description of the 1982 NFMA Planning Regulations
• 2005 NFMA Planning Regulations – the final revised planning regulations, as published in the Federal Register on January 5, 2005
• 2005 NFMA Planning Directives – interim directives issued by the Forest Service to establish procedures and responsibilities for implementing the new planning regulations

• Conservation Strategy Overview – this document summarizes the development history and the basic design criteria of the conservation strategy.
• Suring, L., D. Crocker-Bedford, R. Flynn, C. Hale, G. Iverson, M. Kirchhoff, T. Schenck, L.Shea, and K. Titus. 1993. A proposed strategy for maintaining well distributed, viable populations of wildlife associated with old-growth forests in Southeast Alaska. Review Draft, May 1993, AK. 278 pp.
• Kiester, A., and E. Eckhardt. 1994. Review of wildlife management and conservation biology on the Tongass National Forest: a synthesis with recommendations. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR. 282 pp.
• Suring, L., D. Crocker-Bedford, R. Flynn, C. Hale, G. Iverson, M. Kirchhoff, T. Schenck, L. Shea, and K. Titus. 1994. Response to the Peer Review of: A proposed strategy for maintaining well distributed, viable populations of wildlife associated with old-growth forests in Southeast Alaska. Report of an Interagency Committee. May 1994. 11 pp.
• Beier, P., and R. Noss. 1998. Do habitat corridors provide connectivity? Conservation Biology 12(6): 1241-1252.
• Shaw, Charles G. III. 1999. Use of risk assessment panels during revision of the Tongass land and resource management plan. PNW-GTR-460. U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.
• DeSalle, R., and D. Amoto. 2004. The expansion of conservation genetics. Nature Reviews/Genetics: 5(9):702-712.
• Hanley, T., W. Smith, and S. Gende. 2005. Maintaining wildlife habitat in southeastern Alaska: implications of new knowledge for forest management and research. Landscape and Urban Planning 72:113–133.

• Iverson, C., G. Hayward, K. Titus, E. DeGayner, R. Lowell, D. Crocker-Bedford, P. Schempf, and J. Lindell. 1996. Conservation assessment for the northern goshawk in southeast Alaska. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-387. U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.

• DeGange, A.R. 1996. A conservation assessment for the marbled murrelet in southeast Alaska. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-388. U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.

• Person, D., M. Kirchhoff, V. Van Ballenberghe, G. Iverson, and E. Grossman. 1996. The Alexander Archipelago wolf: a conservation assessment. PNW-GTR-384. U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.

• Smith, W., and J. Nichols. 2003. Demography of the Prince of Wales flying squirrel, an endemic of southeastern Alaska temperate rain forest. J. Mammalogy 84(3):1044-1058.
• Smith, W., and J. Nichols. 2004. Demography of two endemic forest-floor mammals of southeastern Alaskan temperate rain forest. J. Mammalogy 85(3):540-551.
• Smith, W., S. Gende, and J. Nichols. 2005. Correlates of microhabitat use and density of Clethrionomys gapperi and Peromyscus keni in temperate rain forests of Southeast Alaska. Acta Zoologica Sinica 51(6): 973-988.
• Smith, W., S. Gende, and J. Nichols. 2005. Ecological correlates of flying squirrel microhabitat use and density of in temperate rain forests of southeastern Alaska. J. Mammalogy 85(4): 663-674.
• Smith, W., S. Gende, and J. Nichols. 2005. The northern flying squirrel as an indicator species of temperate rain forest: test of an hypothesis. Ecological Applications 15(2): 689-700.
• Smith, W. 2005. Evolutionary diversity and ecology of endemic small mammals of southeastern Alaska with implications for land management planning. Landscape and Urban Planning 72: 135-155.

• Caouette, J., M. Kramer, and G. Nowacki. 2000. Deconstructing the timber volume paradigm in management of the Tongass National Forest. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-482. U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.
• Caouette, J., and E. DeGayner. 2005. Predictive mapping for tree sizes and densities in southeast Alaska. Landscape and Urban Planning 72:49-63.

• McClellan, M. 2005. Recent research on the management of hemlock–spruce forests in southeast Alaska for multiple values. Landscape and Urban Planning 72: 65–78.
• Van Hees, W., and B. Mead. 2005. Extensive, strategic assessment of southeast Alaska’s vegetative resources. Landscape and Urban Planning 72:25-48.

• Barbour, R., R. Zaborske, M. McClellan, L. Christian, and D. Golnick. 2005. Young-stand management options and their implications for wood quality and other values. Landscape and Urban Planning 72:79-94.
• Hanley, T. 2005. Potential management of young-growth stands for understory vegetation and wildlife habitat in southeastern Alaska. Landscape and Urban Planning 72:95-112.

• Bryant, M., R. Edwards, and R. Woodsmith. 2005. An approach to effectiveness monitoring of floodplain channel aquatic habitat: salmonid relationships. Landscape and Urban Planning 72:157-176.
• Wipfli, M. 2005. Trophic linkages between headwater forests and downstream fish habitats: implications for forest and fish management. Landscape and Urban Planning 72:205–213.
• Woodsmith, R., J. Noel, and M. Dilger. 2005. An approach to effectiveness monitoring of floodplain channel aquatic habitat: channel condition assessment. Landscape and Urban Planning 72:177-204.

• Millenium Ecosystem Assessment. 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis. Island Press. Washington, D.C.
• Millenium Ecosystem Assessment. 2003. Ecosystems and Human Well-being: A Framework for Assessment. Island Press. Washington, D.C.

Economics and Timber Demand

• Brooks, D., and R. Haynes. 1997. Timber products output and timber harvests in Alaska: Projections for 1997-2010. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-409. U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.
• Morse, K. 2000. Responding to the demand for Tongass timber - using adaptive management to implement Sec. 101 of the 1990 Tongass Timber Reform Act. U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Region 10. 43 pp.
• U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Region 10. 2000. Tongass National Forest timber sale procedures - using information about market demand to schedule FY 2001 timber offerings. U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Region 10. 17 pp.
• Crone, L. 2005. Southeast Alaska economics. A resource-abundant region competing in a global marketplace. Landscape and Urban Planning 72:215–233.
• Brackley, A., T. Rojas, R. Haynes. 2006. Timber products output and timber harvests in Alaska: projections for 2005-25. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-677. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 33 pp.
• Brackley, A. and R. Haynes. 2007. Timber products output and timber harvests in Alaska: an addendum. Manuscript in preparation for USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Research Note.

Social Sciences

• Kruger, L. 2005. Community and landscape change in southeast Alaska. Landscape and Urban Planning 72:235–249.