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Wieslander VTM, Vegetation Type Map Survey Collection: More About the VTM Project

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More about the VTM project

Wieslander Vegetation Type Mapping Project Beta Website - explore the digitized and georeferenced plot, map, and photo data

A. E. Wieslander, California Forester: Mapper of Wildland Vegetation and Soils, Oral History

Field Manual ("Manual of Field Instructions for Vegetation Type Map of California"; Pages 4, 105-109 & 186 discuss the photographs) - describes how the field data were collected

Jepson Herbarium SMASCH Query Acquisition Records
Many of the samples collected during the original VTM surveys now reside in the UC Berkeley Jepson Herbarium. This site allows you to search for them when you select 'Vegetation Type Map Project' from the 'Voucher' box. [link no longer working]
 
Article: Digitization of a Historic Dataset: The Wieslander California Vegetation Type Mapping Project (2005)
 
Article: California's Historic Legacy For Landscape Change, the Wieslander Vegetation Type Maps (2016)
 
Article: Rescuing and Sharing Historical Vegetation Data for Ecological Analysis: The California Vegetation Type Mapping Project (2016)
 
Article: Geospatial Informatics Key to Recovering and Sharing Historical Ecological Data for Modern Use (2017)
 
 

Selected Wieslander Bibliography (including papers on Wieslander's earlier and later projects)

A. E. Wieslander, "Botanical type map of Muir Woods Basin : Redwood Canyon, Marin Co., California," 1 map (1914).

A. E. Wieslander, "Fire protection map of the forest plantations in the Oakland and Berkeley Hills : City of Oakland, Alameda County, California," , 1 ms. map (1915).  

A. E. Wieslander, Management plan, Eastern Lassen Working Circle (Lassen National Forest, Calif., 1922).

California Forest and Range Experiment Station, Vegetation type maps of California and Western Nevada (U.S. Forest Service, Washington, D.C., 1932).

California Forest and Range Experiment Station, "Vegetation types of California (exclusive of deserts and cultivated lands),"  maps (1932).

A. E. Wieslander., "A vegetation type map of California." (1935) Madrono 2:140-144

A.E. Wieslander, "First Steps of the Forest Survey in California" (1935) Journal of Forestry 33(10): 877–884

A. E. Wieslander, Forest areas, timber volumes and vegetation types in California (California Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, Calif., 1946).

A. E. Wieslander, A Study of Land Ownership in relation to Timber Management in California ; working plan (U.S. Forest Service. California Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, Calif., 1947).

California. Division of Forestry, "Upland soils of Mendocino County : (exclusive of National Forests areas),"  1 map (1951).

Wieslander, A.E., and R.E. Storie. 1952. The vegetation-soil survey in California and its use. Journal of Forestry 50: 521-526

Archival Material

A. E. Wieslander, "A.E. Wieslander papers," , 1 v., 1 carton, 1 oversize folder.; 21 sound cassettes (of oral history interview).

Vegetation Mapping in Calfornia

A good summary of how the VTM project fits in with more recent vegetation mapping efforts in California is Todd Keeler-Wolf's The History Of Vegetation Classification And Mapping In California, a chapter in Terrestrial vegetation of California (3rd ed).

The Biosciences library's collections include maps from the next major vegetation mapping effort, the State Cooperative Soil-Vegetation Survey (maps dated 1949-), and a description of this project (also in this article), and scans of these, and later, maps are available in the Library's Digital Collections.