Custom Data Request ID/Name: AFM_AFM899_3_2023
Organization/Individual Requesting Data:
American Forest Management, Inc. (AFM) is requesting precise data for G1-G3 and S1-S3 within specific tracts of forest lands owned and managed by their company for Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) audits and certification.
AFM is an employee owned and operated management consulting firm with 5.85 million acres of forest and agricultural land under management for various clients in the Southeast, Gulf Coast, Appalachian, Northeast, Pacific Northwest, Intermountain, and Lake States Regions of the United States and Central America. AFM works with a diverse client-base that includes Timber Investment Management Organizations (TIMOs), public Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), Non-Industrial Private Forest landowners (NIPFs), and Government Agencies (Forestry, Land & Timber Specialists | American Forest Management).
Purpose:
AFM is requesting the species and community data for specific tracts owned by our client and, and have provided the shapefiles of their boundaries. AFM will use this data to respond to Sustainable Forestry Initiative audits and certification. More specifically, staff will use this data for land management and timber harvesting. They are requesting at the minimum the G1-G3 and S1-S3 level.
Scope of Data: The data provided to AFM under this license agreement includes precise and species and community data for elements located in AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, NY, NC, PA, SC, TX, VA, and WI. In addition, some species locations (EOs) may be generalized for data security purposes.
The scope of users that will have access to the license dataset are listed below. AFM is responsible for ensuring that all users of the Licensed Dataset adhere to the terms in the Licensed Agreement including taking the NatureServe Data Use Training.
Data Sensitivity: We are not delivering spatial data to SARP (only tabular data listed above), they are just reporting the number of species by HUC 12 on their tool (no species names). We don’t think there are any data sensitivity issues.
Mode and Date of Delivery: A personal Geodatabase file was provided on June 14, 2023.