Track: Forestry
Using AML To Calculate Colony Areas and Foraging Zones for the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
Donald LipscombThomas Williams
The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (RCW) is an endangered species found in southeastern pine forests. The bird is endangered because it nests in old living pines and forages in old growth pine forests. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has developed guidelines for the management of forests where RCWs are found. The guidelines have specific requirements for numbers and sizes of trees in prescribed areas surrounding RCWs nest trees. ArcInfo can be used to determine these prescribed areas and overlay stand information to plan forest management with RCW. The analysis is time-consuming and an AML procedure was developed to automate it.
Donald Lipscomb
Clemson University
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