Talk:List of forest-inventory conifers in the United States

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Latest comment: 22 days ago7 comments1 person in discussion

I concede that the USFS doesn't have a monopoly on forest inventories ... so if someone wants to propose and defend alternative inventories, I have no problem with that. I'd prefer to keep the current page title, but as a fall-back position, if necessary, the page could have a title that focuses only on Silvics of North America (1991). The 1991 inventory hasn't been superseded, and probably never will be, because the trend in the US has shifted away from fixed inventory lists and toward relying on databases that produce custom-made inventories after you select the characteristics you're looking for. - Dank (push to talk) 22:28, 6 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
The distributions were accessed on and after April 28, 2024. - Dank (push to talk) 21:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
My sources generally say that conifers account for roughly 80% of harvested timber in North America. But the percentage can change from year to year, so I didn't mention a specific percentage in the list. - Dank (push to talk) 23:16, 6 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
When I do a search on intitle:"Mississippi River" "United States" in the Wikipedia search bar, I get 104 hits ... and none of them put "United States" in the title of the page or the redirect. That suggests that this page shouldn't have "United States" in the title, either. - Dank (push to talk) 13:31, 11 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
The liming data is labeled "CaCO3" in the USDA Plants Database, referring to a range of compounds, not just calcium carbonate. - Dank (push to talk) 03:45, 21 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
After I write the next list, I'll be adding this to the Notes section: "The ranges of two non-native species, Pinus nigra and Pinus sylvestris, may extend slightly west of the Mississippi; see List of forest-inventory conifers east of the Mississippi." - Dank (push to talk) 19:34, 25 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Tallies of image licenses: all the images marked as "Yes, it's in Canada's inventory" in the third column of the table were covered at WP:Featured list candidates/List of forest-inventory conifers in Canada/archive1. For the rest, the tally is: 50 are marked "own work", 26 are from Flickr, 12 from the US government (public domain), 1 from www.public-domain-image.com, 1 from iNaturalist, 1 from Panoramio, and 1 (a Sequoia image) from 500px.com. - Dank (push to talk) 04:16, 24 May 2024 (UTC)Reply