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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 [Note, some functionality of the website is currently unavailable, but shapefiles and plot data are available for download]

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

Article: Maggi Kelly, Barbara Allen-Diaz, and Norma Kobzina. Digitization of a Historic Dataset: The Wieslander California Vegetation Type Mapping Project. Madroño 52(3), 191-201, (1 July 2005). 
 
Book Chapter: Todd Keeler-Wolf The History Of Vegetation Classification And Mapping In California, in Terrestrial vegetation of California (3rd ed, 2007).
 
Article: James H. Thorne and Thuy N'goc Le. California's Historic Legacy For Landscape Change, the Wieslander Vegetation Type Maps. Madroño 63(4), 293-328, (1 October 2016). https://doi.org/10.3120/0024-9637-63.4.293
 
Article: Kelly, Maggi. 2016. Rescuing and Sharing Historical Vegetation Data for Ecological Analysis: The California Vegetation Type Mapping Project. Biodiversity Informatics 11 (1). https://doi.org/10.17161/bi.v11i1.5886.
 
Article: Kelly, Maggi; Easterday, Kelly; Koo, Michelle; Thorne, James H.; Mukythar, Shruti; Galey, Brian. (2017). Geospatial Informatics Key to Recovering and Sharing Historical Ecological Data for Modern Use  Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, Volume 83, Number 11, pp. 779-786(8). https://doi.org/10.14358/PERS.83.10.779
 
 

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).

"Vegetation types of California (exclusive of deserts and cultivated lands),"  published VTM maps (1932-1940).

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 in the Management of Wild Lands for Yield of Timber, Forage and Water. 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).