Resources and Data

Living Database: Community forests of the USA

Curious to know more about community forests in the USA? Visit our living database to see where they are, who owns and manages them, and what they are being managed for. Is your community forest not on the list? Contribute to our living database by filling out the form.

Socio-environmental dynamics map explorer

Partners at the Spatial Informatics Group have helped put together a tool to visualize forest cover change since 2000 in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Check out the maps with various overlays, including boundaries of community forests and protected areas:

Click here for Map Explorer (takes a minute to load)

Dataset: Community forests of the USA

The dataset used for our survey paper “Characterizing community forests in the US“, is available on US Forest Service Research Data Archive. Click here for access to the dataset.

Dataset: Global community forest management

The dataset used for our systematic review “A global analysis of the social and environmental outcomes of community forests” is hosted on the FLARE website.

Click here for access to the dataset