Cloquet Forestry Center Continuous Forest Inventory Update for 2014

................................................................................................................................................... iv INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 1 DESCRIPTION OF THE CFC AND CFI ......................................................................................................... 1 DATA COLLECTION, ORGANIZATION AND ANALYSIS ............................................................................ 4 ANALYSIS RESULTS FOR 2014 .................................................................................................................. 8 CFI DATABASE USER NOTES ................................................................................................................... 19 LITERATURE CITED AND REFERENCES ................................................................................................. 20 Appendix 1: Field data entry procedures with Microsoft Tablet ............................................................ 23 Appendix 2: Access database forms ........................................................................................................ 24 Appendix 3: Queries and tables used in the CFC-CFI Access database .............................................. 27 Appendix 4: Site index, tree height, volume and biomass equations ................................................... 34 Appendix 5: R plot map example .............................................................................................................. 36 Appendix 6: Damage codes and tree classes withheld from calculations ........................................... 38 Appendix 7: Summary stand and stock tables ........................................................................................ 39 Appendix 8: Forest covertype classification system .............................................................................. 45