Brian F. Walters

Treesearch Publications

• Susan Crocker, Sjana Schanning, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brett J. Butler, Jesse Caputo, Thomas Goff, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Rachel Riemann, Ronald J. Piva, Brian F. Walters, William Zipse. 2026. New Jersey forests 2018: summary report
• Ashley Lang, Melissa A. Pastore, Brian F. Walters, Grant M. Domke. 2025. Bulk density calculation methods systematically alter estimates of soil organic carbon stocks in United States forests
• Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, James Smith, Eric J. Greenfield, Courtney Giebink, Stephen M. Ogle, John Steller, Kenna Rewcastle, Jonathan Knott, John W. Coulston, Kelly A. Heilman, Ashley Lang. 2024. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, urban trees, and harvested wood products in the United States, 1990–2022
• Randall Morin, Thomas A. Albright, Brett J. Butler, Jesse Caputo, Susan Crocker, Thomas Goff, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, Mark D. D. Nelson, Rachel Riemann, Sjana Schanning, Brian F. Walters, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2024. West Virginia forests 2018: summary report
• Lucas E. Nave, Kendall DeLyser, Grant M. Domke, Scott M. Holub, Maria Janowiak, Adrienne B. Keller, Matthew Peters, Kevin A. Solarik, Brian F. Walters, Chris Swanston. 2024. Land use change and forest management effects on soil carbon stocks in the Northeast U.S.
• Dale D. Gormanson, Bryan Hemmer, Daniel J. Gallion, Thomas A. Albright, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, James Garner, Thomas Goff, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Rachel Riemann, Sjana Schanning, Brian F. Walters, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2024. Indiana forests 2018: summary report
• Scott A. Pugh, Jagdish Poudel, Thomas A. Albright, Brett J. Butler, Jesse Caputo, Susan Crocker, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Ronald J. Piva, Rachel Riemann, Brian F. Walters, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2023. Michigan forests 2019: summary report
• Thomas A. Albright, Brett J. Butler, Jesse Caputo, Susan Crocker, Thomas Goff, Cassandra Kurtz, Shawn Lehman, Tonya Lister, William Luppold, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Rachel Riemann, Brian F. Walters, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2023. Pennsylvania forests 2019: summary report
• Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, Courtney L. Giebink, Eric J. Greenfield, James Smith, Michael C. Nichols, Jonathan Knott, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston, John Steller. 2023. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, urban trees, and harvested wood products in the United States, 1990-2021
• Jonathan Knott, Greg C. C. Liknes, Courtney L. Giebink, Sungchan Oh, Grant M. Domke, Ronald E. McRoberts, Valquiria F. Quirino, Brian F. Walters. 2023. Effects of outliers on remote sensing‐assisted forest biomass estimation: A case study from the United States national forest inventory
• John W. Coulston, Evan B. Brooks, Brett J. Butler, Jennifer Costanza, David M. Walker, Grant M. Domke, Jesse Caputo, Marla Markowski-Lindsay, Emma M. Sass, Brian F. Walters, Jinggang Guo. 2023. Forest Resources
• Thomas Goff, Thomas A. Albright, Brett J. Butler, Jesse Caputo, Susan Crocker, Dale D. Gormanson, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, Dacia M. Meneguzzo, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Ronald J. Piva, Rachel Riemann, Sjana Schanning, Brian F. Walters, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2022. Delaware forests 2018: summary report
• Thomas Goff, Thomas A. Albright, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Dale D. Gormanson, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, Dacia M. Meneguzzo, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Ronald J. Piva, Rachel Riemann, Sjana Schanning, Brian F. Walters, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2022. Iowa forests 2018: summary report
• Yifan Yu, Sassan Saatchi, Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Sangram Ganguly, Shuang Li, Subodh Kalia, Taejin Park, Ramakrishna Nemani, Stephen Hagen, Lindsay Melendy. 2022. Making the US national forest inventory spatially contiguous and temporally consistent
• Cassandra Kurtz, Thomas A. Albright, Brian D. Anderson, Brett J. Butler, Collin Buntrock, Daniel Buckler, Susan Crocker, Mark D. D. Nelson, Andrea L. Diss-Torrance, Thomas Goff, Bryan Hemmer, Randall Morin, Ronald J. Piva, Scott A. Pugh, Rachel Riemann, Sjana Schanning, Brian F. Walters, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2022. Wisconsin forests 2019: summary report
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Thomas A. Albright, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Jereme Frank, Thomas Goff, Dale D. Gormanson, Laura S. Kenefic, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, Patrick D. Miles, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Ronald J. Piva, Rachel Riemann, Sjana Schanning, Brian F. Walters, James A. Westfall. 2022. Maine forests 2018: summary report
• Brett J. Butler, Jesse Caputo, Susan Crocker, James Garner, Bryan Hemmer, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Ronald J. Piva, Scott A. Pugh, Rachel Riemann, Brian F. Walters, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2022. Southern New England Forests 2017: summary report
• Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, Eric J. Greenfield, James Smith, Michael C. Nichols, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston, Tom C. Wirth. 2022. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, urban trees, and harvested wood products in the United States, 1990–2020
• Lucas E. Nave, Kendall DeLyser, Grant M. Domke, Scott M. Holub, Maria Janowiak, Brian Kittler, Todd A. Ontl, Eric Sprague, Eric B. Sucre, Brian F. Walters, Chris Swanston. 2022. Disturbance and management effects on forest soil organic carbon stocks in the Pacific Northwest
• Scott C. Hillard, Randall Morin, Jim Westfall, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Mark D. D. Nelson, Brian F. Walters, William Luppold, Rachel Riemann, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Thomas A. Albright, Bryan Hemmer, James Garner. 2022. Minnesota forests 2018: summary report
• Jonathan Knott, Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, Michael Jenkins, Songlin Fei. 2022. Shifting Forests and Carbon: Linking Community Composition and Aboveground Carbon Attributes
• Brendan R. Quirion, Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, Gary M. Lovett, Joseph E. Fargione, Leigh Greenwood, Kristina Serbesoff-King, John M. Randall, Songlin Fei. 2021. Insect and Disease Disturbances Correlate With Reduced Carbon Sequestration in Forests of the Contiguous United States
• Thomas Goff, Thomas A. Albright, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, William McWilliams, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Ronald J. Piva, Rachel Riemann, Lance Vickers, Brian F. Walters, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2021. Missouri forests 2018: summary report
• L.E. Nave, K. DeLyser, Grant M. Domke, Maria Janowiak, T.A. Ontl, E. Sprague, Brian F. Walters, Chris Swanston. 2021. Land use and management effects on soil carbon in U.S. Lake States, with emphasis on forestry, fire, and reforestation
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Matthew B. Russell, Shawn Fraver, Brian F. Walters, Grant M. Domke. 2021. Chapter 6 - Changes in coarse woody material attributes, U.S. forests, between 2002 to 2011 and 2012 to 2019
• Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, James Smith, Michael C. Nichols, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston, T.C. Wirth. 2021. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990–2019
• Thomas A. Albright, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Jason M. Drobnack, Cassandra Kurtz, William McWilliams, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Rachel Riemann, Lance A. Vickers, Brian F. Walters, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2020. New York Forests 2017
• Grant M. Domke, Sonja Oswalt, Brian F. Walters, Randall Morin. 2020. Tree planting has the potential to increase carbon sequestration capacity of forests in the United States
• Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, James Smith, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston, T.C. Wirth. 2020. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2018
• Randall Morin, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Joshua Halman, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, William McWilliams, Mark D. D. Nelson, Rachel Riemann, Brian F. Walters, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2020. Vermont Forests 2017
• Randall Morin, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Jonathan Horton, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, William McWilliams, Mark D. D. Nelson, Rachel Riemann, Brian F. Walters, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2020. New Hampshire Forests 2017
• Hunter Stanke, Andrew O. Finley, Aaron S. Weed, Brian F. Walters, Grant M. Domke. 2020. rFIA: An R package for estimation of forest attributes with the US Forest Inventory and Analysis database
• Baijing Cao, Grant M. Domke, Matthew B. Russell, Brian F. Walters. 2019. Spatial modeling of litter and soil carbon stocks on forest land in the conterminous United States
• Ronald E. McRoberts, Erik Næsset, Greg C. C. Liknes, Qi Chen, Brian F. Walters, Sassan Saatchi, Martin Herold. 2019. Using a Finer Resolution Biomass Map to Assess the Accuracy of a Regional, Map-Based Estimate of Forest Biomass
• Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, James Smith, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston. 2019. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2017
• James Smith, Grant M. Domke, Michael C. Nichols, Brian F. Walters. 2019. Carbon stocks and stock change on federal forest lands of the United States
• L.E. Nave, Brian F. Walters, K.L. Hofmeister, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, U. Mishra, Grant M. Domke, Chris Swanston. 2019. The role of reforestation in carbon sequestration
• Wu Ma, Grant M. Domke, Anthony W. D'Amato, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, Ram K. Deo. 2018. Using matrix models to estimate aboveground forest biomass dynamics in the eastern USA through various combinations of LiDAR, Landsat, and forest inventory data
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Jim Westfall, A.W. D'Amato, J.R. Foster, Brian F. Walters. 2018. Decadal changes in tree range stability across forests of the eastern U.S.
• Dacia M. Meneguzzo, David E. Haugen, Brian F. Walters, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Cassandra Kurtz, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Ronald J. Piva, James Smith. 2018. Northern Great Plains Forests 2015
• Wu Ma, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Grant M. Domke, Anthony W. D’Amato, Brian F. Walters. 2018. Stand age versus tree diameter as a driver of forest carbon inventory simulations in the northeastern U.S.
• Brian F. Walters, Kristen Bergstrand, Ronald J. Piva. 2018. Minnesota Timber Industry, 2014
• Brian F. Walters, Brian Garbisch, Ronald J. Piva. 2018. South Dakota Timber Industry, 2014
• Ronald E. McRoberts, Stephen V Stehman, Greg C. C. Liknes, Erik Næsset, Christophe Sannier, Brian F. Walters. 2018. The effects of imperfect reference data on remote sensing-assisted estimators of land cover class proportions
• Ronald E. McRoberts, Qi Chen, Dale D. Gormanson, Brian F. Walters. 2018. The shelf-life of airborne laser scanning data for enhancing forest inventory inferences
• Ronald E. McRoberts, Qi Chen, Brian F. Walters, Daniel Kaisershot. 2018. The effects of global positioning system receiver accuracy on airborne laser scanning-assisted estimates of aboveground biomass
• Lucas E. Nave, Grant M. Domke, Kathryn L. Hofmeister, Umakant Mishra, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Brian F. Walters, Chris Swanston. 2018. Reforestation can sequester two petagrams of carbon in US topsoils in a century
• Ronald E. McRoberts, Qi Chen, Brian F. Walters. 2017. Multivariate inference for forest inventories using auxiliary airborne laser scanning data
• Grant M. Domke, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Brian F. Walters, L.E. Nave, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Chris Swanston. 2017. Toward inventory-based estimates of soil organic carbon in forests of the United States
• Kristofer Johnson, Grant M. Domke, Matthew B Russell, Brian F. Walters, John Hom, Alicia Peduzzi, Richard Birdsey, Katelyn Dolan, Wenli Huang. 2017. Estimating aboveground live understory vegetation carbon in the United States
• Randall Morin, Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters. 2017. Forests of West Virginia, 2016
• Randall Morin, Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, S. Wilmot. 2017. Forests of Vermont, 2016
• Brian F. Walters, Jeff Settle, Ronald J. Piva. 2017. Indiana timber industry, 2013
• Patrick D. Miles, Susan Crocker, Brian F. Walters, Dennis Kepler. 2017. Forests of Minnesota, 2016
• Brian F. Walters. 2017. Forests of South Dakota, 2016
• Matthew B. Russell, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Kevin M. Potter, Brian F. Walters, Grant M. Domke, Christopher M. Oswalt. 2017. Interactions between white-tailed deer density and the composition of forest understories in the northern United States
• Ronald E. McRoberts, Alexander C. Vibrans, Christophe Sannier, Erik Næsset, Matthew C. Hansen, Brian F. Walters, Débora V Lingner. 2016. Methods for evaluating the utilities of local and global maps for increasing the precision of estimates of subtropical forest area
• Ronald J. Piva, Thomas B. Treiman, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Dale D. Gormanson, Douglas Griffith, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, William Luppold, William McWilliams, Patrick D. Miles, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Rachel Riemann, James Smith, Brian F. Walters, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2016. Missouri Forests 2013
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, M. B. Russell, J. W. Coulston, Grant M. Domke, A. W. D'Amato, Paul Sowers. 2016. A Tale of Two Forest Carbon Assessments in the Eastern United States: Forest Use Versus Cover as a Metric of Change
• N. L. Harris, S. C. Hagen, S. S. Saatchi, T. R. H. Pearson, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Grant M. Domke, B. H. Braswell, Brian F. Walters, S. Brown, W. Salas, A. Fore, Y. Yu. 2016. Attribution of net carbon change by disturbance type across forest lands of the conterminous United States
• Patrick D. Miles, Curtis L. VanderSchaaf, Charles Barnett, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Dale D. Gormanson, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, William McWilliams, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Rachel Riemann, James Smith, Brian F. Walters, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2016. Minnesota Forests 2013
• Grant M. Domke, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Brian F. Walters, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Matthew B. Russell, James Smith. 2016. Estimating litter carbon stocks on forest land in the United States
• Brian F. Walters. 2016. Forests of South Dakota, 2015
• Brian F. Walters, Steve Vongroven, Ronald J. Piva. 2016. Minnesota timber industry: an assessment of timber product output and use, 2010
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, John W. Coulston, Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David N. Wear, James Smith, Hans Andersen, Brian J. Clough, Warren B. Cohen, Douglas Griffith, Stephen C. Hagen, Ian S. Hanou, Michael C. Nichols, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Matthew B. Russell, Jim Westfall, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson. 2015. The U.S. forest carbon accounting framework: stocks and stock change, 1990-2016
• Grant M. Domke, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Brian F. Walters, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Lucas E. Nave, Chris Swanston. 2015. Estimating carbon in forest soils of the United States using the national forest inventory
• Susan Crocker, Brian F. Walters, Randall Morin. 2015. Visual analysis of forest health using story maps: a tale of two forest insect pests
• Greg C. C. Liknes, Susan Crocker, Randall Morin, Brian F. Walters. 2015. Hurricane impacts on forest resources in the Eastern United States: a post-sandy assessment
• Brian F. Walters, Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2015. Leveraging FIA data for analysis beyond forest reports: examples from the world of carbon
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, John W. Coulston, A.W. D’Amato, Grant M. Domke, M.B. Russell, Paul Sowers. 2015. Monitoring network confirms land use change is a substantial component of the forest carbon sink in the eastern United States
• Cassandra Kurtz, W. Keith Moser, Mark H. Hansen, Dale D. Gormanson, Mark A. Hatfield, Paul Sowers, Mike Dockry, Marla R. Emery, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, Grant M. Domke, Jonathan Gilbert, Alexandra Wrobel. 2015. Forest resources within the Lake States ceded territories 1980 - 2013
• Brian F. Walters. 2015. Forests of South Dakota, 2014
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, M.B. Russell, Brian F. Walters, A.W. D'Amato, S. Fraver, Grant M. Domke. 2015. Net carbon flux of dead wood in forests of the Eastern US
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, M.B. Russell, Brian F. Walters, A.W. D'Amato, K. Zhu, S.S. Saatchi. 2015. Forest production dynamics along a wood density spectrum in eastern US forests
• David E. Haugen, Brian F. Walters, Ronald J. Piva, David Neumann. 2014. Michigan timber industry—an assessment of timber product output and use, 2008
• Brian F. Walters. 2014. Forests of South Dakota, 2013
• Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, Ronald E. McRoberts, Mark A. Hatfield. 2014. Strategies to compensate for the effects of nonresponse on forest carbon baseline estimates from the national forest inventory of the United States
• Brian G. Tavernia, Mark D. D. Nelson, Michael E. Goerndt, Brian F. Walters, Chris Toney. 2013. Changes in forest habitat classes under alternative climate and land-use change scenarios in the northeast and midwest, USA
• Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, James Smith. 2013. From Models to Measurements: Comparing Downed Dead Wood Carbon Stock Estimates in the U.S. Forest Inventory
• Ronald J. Piva, Brian F. Walters, Douglas D. Haugan, Gregory J. Josten, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Grant M. Domke, Mark A. Hatfield, Cassandra Kurtz, Andrew J. Lister, Tonya Lister, W. Keith Moser, Mark D. D. Nelson, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2013. South Dakota's Forests 2010
• Brian F. Walters, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Ronald J. Piva, Mark A. Hatfield, Grant M. Domke, David E. Haugen. 2013. Forests of the Black Hills National Forest 2011
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, Sonja Oswalt, Grant M. Domke, Chris Toney, Andrew Gray. 2013. Biomass and carbon attributes of downed woody materials in forests of the United States
• Brian F. Walters. 2013. South Dakota's forest resources, 2012
• Mark D. D. Nelson, Brian G. Tavernia, Chris Toney, Brian F. Walters. 2012. Relating FIA data to habitat classifications via tree-based models of canopy cover
• Greg C. C. Liknes, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, Sara A. Goeking. 2012. Unlocking the climate riddle in forested ecosystems
• Brian G. Tavernia, Mark D. D. Nelson, Brian F. Walters, Chris Toney. 2012. Projected trends in forest habitat classes under climate and land-use change scenarios
• Brian F. Walters, Dennis M. Adams, Ronald J. Piva. 2012. Nebraska timber industry: an assessment of timber product output and use, 2009
• Ronald E. McRoberts, Brian F. Walters. 2012. Statistical inference for remote sensing-based estimates of net deforestation
• Dacia M. Meneguzzo, Brian F. Walters. 2012. Nebraska's forest resources, 2011
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, Jim Westfall. 2012. Tracking downed dead wood in forests over time: Development of a piece matching algorithm for line intercept sampling
• Brian F. Walters. 2012. South Dakota's forest resources, 2011
• Brian F. Walters, Daniel R. Rider, Ronald J. Piva. 2012. Maryland timber industry: an assessment of timber product output and use, 2008
• Brian F. Walters, Jeff Settle, Ronald J. Piva. 2012. Indiana timber industry: an assessment of timber product output and use, 2008
• Brian F. Walters, Ronald J. Piva. 2011. South Dakota's forest resources, 2010
• Tony Johnson, Ronald J. Piva, Brian F. Walters, Colin Sorenson, Christopher W. Woodall, Todd A. Morgan. 2011. National pulpwood production, 2008

• Program
  

  Northern Region Forest Inventory and Analysis

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/programs/fia
  Station

  Northern Research Station

• Michigan State University, M.S., Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing, 2008
• Michigan State University, B.S., Forestry, 2005