Northern Forest Futures Database

The Northern Forest Futures database (NFFDB) supports the reporting of both current and projected future forest conditions for the 20 states that make up the U.S. North, an area bounded by Maine, Maryland, Missouri, and Minnesota. The NFFDB database and attendant reporting tools are available to the public as a Microsoft Access database. The NFF_CurrentReports tool generates customized reports for a variety of forest statistics for the 2008 inventory year such as estimates of area, numbers of trees, volume, biomass, average annual net growth, average annual mortality, and average annual removals. The NFF_ProjectionReports program supports the reporting of projected forest statistics by decade through the year 2060 for any of 14 scenarios that reflect varying climatic and socioeconomic possibilities. Also included in this product are the individual Forest Inventory and Analysis database (FIADB) files for the 20 states in the U.S. North which contain data and a reporting tool that can be used to compute estimates of area, numbers of trees, volume, biomass, average annual net growth, average annual mortality, average annual removals, as well as carbon, down woody material biomass, and area change.
The Northern Forest Futures Assessment (NFFA) provides estimates of possible future scenarios given a variety of demographic, economic, and climatic assumptions, combined with statistically rigorous current forest statistics. These assumptions and current statistics were all run through the U.S. Forest Assessment System (USFAS) a peer-reviewed modeling system (Wear et al. 2013 and Wear 2011). Results from the NFFA can be used to anticipate possible future forest conditions and thereby assist policy makers in shaping forest policy, and aid forest managers in practicing proactive forest management to meet future demands. The Northern Forest Futures database (NFFDB) was developed to support the NFFA by providing statistical summaries through the year 2060 for 14 projection scenarios that reflect a range of climatic and socioeconomic possibilities for the 20 states that make up the U.S. North, an area bounded by Maine, Maryland, Missouri and Minnesota.
Original metadata date was 09/11/2015. Minor metadata updates on 12/14/2016.