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         FSH 2409.13 - TIMBER RESOURCE PLANNING HANDBOOK


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CHAPTER

10  TIMBER INVENTORY DATA AND INFORMATION COLLECTION

20  TIMBER RESOURCE LAND SUITABILITY PROCESS

30  TIMBER SALE SCHEDULING

40  PLANNING DOCUMENTATION

50  MONITORING AND EVALUATION                         



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                            Contents


05  DEFINITIONS

06  TIMBER VOLUME AND MEASUREMENT STANDARDS             






		CHAPTER 10 - TIMBER INVENTORY DATA AND
                     INFORMATION COLLECTION

                            Contents


11       KINDS OF INVENTORIES AND DATA BASES
11.1     Relationships to Other Functional Inventories

12       INVENTORY DESIGNS
12.1     Precision Requirements
12.2     Sample Units
12.3     Units of Measure

13       INVENTORY PLANNING
13.1     Use of Prior Inventories
13.2     Inventory Scheduling
13.3     Inventory Quality Control
13.4     Inventory Documentation
13.5     Upgrading of Inventories

14       STANDARD INVENTORY OUTPUTS
14.1     Stand or Area Maps
14.2     Tables
14.21    Area Tables
14.22    Volume Tables
14.23    Other Tables
14.24    Data Files      








	CHAPTER 20 - TIMBER RESOURCE LAND SUITABILITY PROCESS

                            Contents


21       TENTATIVELY SUITABLE FOREST LAND CLASSIFICATION PROCESS
21.1     Forest Land
21.2     Forest Land Withdrawn from Timber Production
21.3     Forest Land Incapable of Producing Industrial Wood
21.4     Physically Suitable Forest Land
21.41    Irreversible Resource Damage
21.42    Reasonable Assurance of Adequate Restocking
21.5     Inadequate Response Information
21.6     Tentatively Suitable Forest Lands

22       MANAGEMENT PRESCRIPTIONS
22.1     Management Emphasis
22.2     Management Intensity
22.21    Practices
22.22    Length
22.3     Financial Analysis
22.31    Supply Potentials

23       LANDS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR TIMBER PRODUCTION
23.1     Minimum Management Requirements
23.2     Multiple-use Objectives
23.3     Cost Efficiency

24       SUITABLE FOREST LANDS               







		CHAPTER 30 - TIMBER SALE SCHEDULING

                            Contents


31       LONG TERM SUSTAINED-YIELD CAPACITY

32       ROTATION
32.1     Culmination of Mean Annual Increment

33       BASE SALE SCHEDULE

34       DEPARTURE FROM BASE SALE SCHEDULE
34.1     Criteria for Analysis and Selection of Departures
34.2     Calculation of Departures
34.3     Departure Analysis
34.4     Display of the Analysis

35       ALLOWABLE SALE QUANTITY

36       TIMBER SALE PROGRAM QUANTITY             







		  CHAPTER 40 - PLANNING DOCUMENTATION

                            Contents


41       REGIONAL GUIDE CONTENT

42       FOREST PLAN CONTENT
42.1     Land Classification
42.2     Vegetation Management Practices
42.3     Timber Productivity Classification
42.4     Allowable Sale Quantity and Timber Sale Program Quantity
42.5     Allowable Sale Quantity and Long-Term Sustained Yield 
	 Capacity
42.6     Present and Future Conditions
42.7     Timber Management on Unsuitable Lands

43       PLANNING RECORDS
43.1     Inventory Data
43.2     Analysis Area Formulation
43.3     Yield Projection
43.4     Area Constraints

44       EXHIBITS             






		CHAPTER 50 - MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                            Contents


51       MONITORING AND EVALUATION
51.1     Regional Guide
51.2     Forest Plan
51.21    Monitoring
51.22    Evaluation