Benefits of a strategic national forest inventory to science and society: the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis program

Forest Inventory and Analysis, previously known as Forest Survey, is one of the oldest research and development programs in the USDA Forest Service. Statistically-based inventory efforts that started in Scandinavian countries in the 1920s raised interest in developing a similar program in the U.S. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaw John D
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF) 2008-02-01
Series:iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry
Subjects:
FIA
Online Access:https://iforest.sisef.org/contents/?id=ifor0345-0010081