The Forest Threat Encyclopedia Project
Michael H. Rauscher and John M. Pye
USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station
The Forest Threat Encyclopedia Project is using this conference to attract the initial content of an online resource on risk assessment as applied to forests and other wildlands. The encyclopedia will be the sixth on the Forest Encyclopedia Network but is the first to extend the collections spatial scope beyond the Southern U.S. to cover all of North America. Content from case studiy papers will appear in itheir own section, with each paper appearing as a linear sequence of HTML pages. The content from synthesis papers will be rearranged hierarchically to form a logical information architecture that helps visitors navigate through the content to the subject of interest. Early exchange of paper outlines has allowed authors to cross reference and coordinate their content beyond most ordinary proceedings. No single conference can cover all the subjects in this rich and expanding field, but the papers from this conference will form the nucleus for what we hope becomes an ongoing process of expansion and updating of content.
corresponding author:
John M. Pye
Forestry Sciences Laboratory
3041 E. Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
919-549-4013
jpye@fs.fed.us
note: oral presentation only
Encyclopedia ID: p103
