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The structured walk - a practical inventory system
Authors: P. Maclaren, C. GouldingPublication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 1992, Issue N.Z.J.For. 37(4) 1993, pp 20-23, Jan 1993
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry
Abstract: A simple and practical methodology for forest inventory is described. The software and some of the-field techniques were developed for New Zealand conditions but have now been tested and modified as a result of an inventory of a 54,000 ha plantation pine forest in Malawi, Central Africa. Each of the 3500 stands in Viphya Forest was sampled in 1990/1991, under the auspices of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation and the direction of the New Zealand Forest Research Institute. This report details the procedures that were used there, in the belief that they could have wider application elsewhere.