More about the VTM project
Wieslander Vegetation Type Mapping Project Beta Website - explore the digitized and georeferenced plot, map, and photo data
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: 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; 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).
