Basic Forest Inventory Techniques for Family Forest Owners

An inventory is a cornerstone of forest stewardship planning that not only ensures your forest is healthy and productive, but can meet your objectives as a landowner for years to come. This manual will teach you how to identify individual forest stands on your property, take a plot sample, establish an inventory plot and measure individual trees. You will then learn how to compute basic statistics that will help you assess the condition of your forest and plan appropriate management activities.