Handbook for Inventorying Surface Fuels and Biomass in the Interior WestU.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1982 - Forest litter - 48 pages Presents comprehensive procedures for inventorying weight per unit area of living and dead surface vegetation, to facilitate estimation of biomass and appraisal of fuels. Provides instructions for conducting fieldwork and calculating estimates of downed woody material, forest floor litter and duff, herbaceous vegetation, shrubs, and small conifers. Procedures produce the most accurate estimates in the Interior West; however, techniques for herbs, litter, and downed woody material are applicable anywhere. Includes computer program and card punching instructions for processing inventory data. |
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2-digit average basal diameter classes biomass Brown BRUSH bulk densities BYTES STACK SPACE calculated CARD FIELD codes Combined species Common juniper conifers CONTINUE COVER TYPE D-DUPLICATE S-SKIP V-VERIFY DOCUMENTAT Douglas-fir downed woody material duff depth Eastern white pine Engelmann spruce estimating weight fire behavior FLOATING PT SUPPORT forest floor litter FORMAT fuel depth FUEL LOADING GO TO 50 Grand fir grasses and forbs HABITAT TYPE herbaceous vegetation HERBS inches 7.6 cm Intermt inventory form James K LICENSED RESTRICTED RIGHTS live and dead Lodgepole pine Mader measurement mineral soil NAME P-PUNCH D-DUPLICATE number of sample number of stems Ogden particle percent error percentage planar intersect PLOT NUMBER ponderosa pine procedures PT SUPPORT REQUIRED PUNCH Range Exp Record ROTTEN sample points sampling intensities Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Serviceberry shrubs slope correction small trees STAND AGE standard subplot stem diameters Step SUBROUTINE TABLE SPACE technique USDA Utah Vaccinium scoparium Western redcedar