Wilderness Inventory Unit Wilderness Inventory Blm Form

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hi welcome back to forestry 101. today we're going to be talking about forest inventory and why forest inventory is important for us as foresters as well as forest and woodland owners and so forest inventory is really a systematic collection of the data within our forest as well as the information that's contained within that forest so that we can assess it and analyze it for for our different management objectives in forestry we often call a timber inventory a timber cruise and cruises can be used to visually assess the timber and determine potential risks whether that's insect and disease vulnerabilities wildfire risk or any other risk to perturbation we can assess that during timber cruise additionally we can combine our timber cruises with wildlife surveys and determine the number and type of wildlife found within that within that forest so a timber cruise is really a sample of the stand and often we use plots to help us with these samples so generally when we're doing a timber cru