THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A TRANSPARENT, OPEN-ACCESS VIRTUAL LABORATORY (TAPESTRY) PROVIDING AN ARRAY OF IN-SITU DATA AND ANALYTIC SERVICES THAT ENABLES RESEARCHERS, EXTENSION PROFESSIONALS, AND POLICY MAKERS TO INVESTIGATE INTER-REGIONAL, INTER-TEMPORAL, AND INTER-SECTORAL RELATIONSHIPS AT COUNTY-LEVEL REGIONAL ECONOMIES OF THE UNITED STATES. OPEN-ACCESS TO COMPREHENSIVE, INTER-TEMPORAL AND DETAILED MULTIREGIONAL SOCIAL ACCOUNTS (MR-SAM) OF DOMESTIC US REGIONAL ECONOMIES, AND THE METHODS USED TO DERIVE MR-SAM, ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS IN A COLLABORATIVE, TRANSPARENT MANNER. THE LACK ACCESS TO FINE SPATIAL GRANULARITY IN SOCIAL ACCOUNTS IS HINDERING THE UNDERSTANDING OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, RECOVERY, AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION ACROSS A SPATIALLY DISPARATE NATION. ENABLING EXPERIMENTS AND APPLICATIONS WITH REPLICABLE SETS OF CROSS-SECTIONAL AND TIME-SERIES ACCOUNTS AND GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS, ALLOWS NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE CAUSES AND NATURE OF INCOME GROWTH ACROSS THE NATION, DIFFERENCES IN INCOME DISTRIBUTION ACROSS THE NATION, DIFFERENCES IN WEALTH DISTRIBUTION ACROSS THE NATION, AND MEASURES OF THE ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCY OF DIFFERENT REGIONS. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES OF THE TYPES OF ANALYSIS THAT THESE ACCOUNTS WILL MAKE POSSIBLE INCLUDE A MORE DETAILED AND CUSTOMIZED UNDERSTANDING OF HOW FOREST AND AGRICULTURAL SECTORS CONTRIBUTE TO REGIONAL ECONOMIES IN TERMS OF BOTH ECONOMIC GROWTH AND RESILIENCY, THE IMPACTS OF DIFFERENT FEDERAL AND STATE POLICIES ON AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE SECTORS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTER-DISCIPLINARY, INTEGRATED ECONOMIC-HAZARD/DISASTER IMPACT AND RECOVERY MODELS, THE RECONCILIATION OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC REDEVELOPMENT AND NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS, CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNDERLYING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CURRENT ACCOUNT ACTIVITY AND THE ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH AND CAPITAL, AND THE ABILITY TO ADDRESS REGIONAL AND NATIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH, DISTRIBUTION, AND TRADE POLICY WHICH EXPLICITLY ACCOUNTS FOR GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES ACROSS THE NATION.