Provides the rationale and context for a national inventory of down woody material. Documents the various woody material components sampled by the DWM indicator

Forest ecosystems are more than just assemblages of trees. They are associations of flora, fauna, and abiotic entities, mineral coesxisting in complex unity, In

The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the USDA Forest Service conducts a national inventory of forests of the United States. A subset of FIA perman

Forest mensuration – the science of measurement applied to forest vegetation and forest products – holds value for basic ecology as well as sustainable fore