Forest Inventory Data: a Valuable Public Resource

摘要

As you walk around your property, drive down the highway into town, or visit an expanding city, have you ever stopped to wonder about how the forest resource of this state is expanding or contracting? In fact, the Alabama Forestry Commission has a team of dedicated foresters who travel out to the field every day to take a series of measurements that make it possible to answer that very question, plus a whole lot more.