Welcome to PINEMAP
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is one of three Coordinated Agricultural Projects funded in 2011 by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
PINEMAP focuses on the 20 million acres of planted pine forests managed by private landowners in the Atlantic and Gulf coastal states from Virginia to Texas, plus Arkansas and Oklahoma. These forests provide critical economic and ecological services to U.S. citizens. Southeastern forests contain 1/3 of the contiguous U.S. forest carbon and form the backbone of an industry that supplies 16% of global industrial wood, 5.5% of the jobs, and 7.5% of the industrial economic activity of the region.
PINEMAP integrates research, extension, and education to enable southern pine landowners to manage forests to increase carbon sequestration; increase efficiency of nitrogen and other fertilizer inputs; and adapt forest management approaches to increase forest resilience and sustainability under variable climates.
Project & News Updates
Year 2 Annual Report
This report highlights research results and programs from the PINEMAP project during year two (March 2012 to February 2013). ...
Agriculture and Forestry in a Changing Climate: Adapatation Recommendations
Released in April 2013, the 25x'25 Adaptation Work Group's "Agriculture and Forestry in a Changing Climate: Adaptation Recommendations" presents a variety of pathways for building and strengthening ...
PINEMAP Press Issue 2, February 2013
Welcome to the second issue of the PINEMAP Press, a quarterly newsletter from the Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation Project. The purpose of this newsletter is to inform ...
USDA-Funded Research Leads to Initial Draft of the Loblolly Pine Genome
Researchers at the University of California-Davis, with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), today released the initial draft genome sequence of the loblolly pine, an important ...
Climate Change and Southeastern Forests: A New PLT Secondary Module
Project Learning Tree® (PLT) partnered with PINEMAP to develop a new secondary module on climate change impacts on southern forest ecosystems, forest impacts on climate, and ways people can affect ...
Publications
Economic and environmental competitiveness of US-made forest products: Implications for offshore outsourcing
Gan, J. 2013. Economic and environmental competitiveness of US-made forest products: Implications for offshore outsourcing. Journal of Forestry 111(2):94-100. doi:
Predicting understory species richness from stand and management characteristics using regression trees
Timilsina, N., W.P. Cropper, Jr., F.J. Escobedo, and J.M. Tucker Lima. 2013. Predicting understory species richness from stand and management characteristics using regression trees. Forests ...
Allometry varies among six-year-old Pinus taeda (L.) clones in the Virginia Piedmont
Stovall, J.P., J.R. Seiler, and T.R. Fox. 2013. Allometry varies among six-year-old Pinus taeda (L.) clones in the Virginia Piedmont. Forest Science 59(1): 50-62. doi:
Carbon sequestration from 40 years of planting genetically improved loblolly pine across the Southeast United States
Aspinwall, M.J., S.E. McKeand, and J.S. King. 2012. Carbon sequestration from 40 years of planting genetically improved loblolly pine across the Southeast United States. Forest Science ...
Effect of harvest residue management on tree productivity and carbon pools during early stand development in a loblolly pine plantation
Maier, C.A., K.H. Johnsen, P. Dougherty, D. McInnis, P. Anderson, and S. Patterson. 2012. Effect of harvest residue management on tree productivity and carbon pools during early stand development ...
