Show Ashley Forest Inventory Study Nearly Completed A forest Inventory Is nearing completion in the Ashley Nation National al Forest ForcH The inventory covers 12 million mil lion acres of the forest or an area arca 47 miles wide and GO 60 miles long THIS IS the first forest In the re- re global glenal area arca involving part Dart of sl six states to have an nn Inventory based on the forest forest for for- est cst said Ron Icon M. M Sanden project supervisor super super- visor Isor Information acquired is Intended to meet the modern concept of oI total land management and will form Corm the basis for tor complex decisions in is timber and management management man man- for years to come Mr Sanden said He lIe said that although Uses may change and reevaluations Devaluations will bo lx made the information now recorded will prevail prevail pre pre- vail 11 for a year 10 to outlook and better public information AIDED BY aerial photography pinpoint locations representing the greatest greatest great great- est cst section cross for Cor study were ed ld and graphed for Cor easy identification by the field phase Eighteen men graduate or resource management students were given a two two- week course before beCore going on the sites where they spent the summer gathering gathering gather gather- ing information A DIAMOND pattern of oC 10 points covering covering cov cov- ering an acre of oC land formed the in informational informational in- in formational plat giving data which will willbe willbe willbe be stored in a computer for Cor ready access Seven elevations slope of oC land 26 geological geological geological geo geo- logical formations use multiple zones units measurements for Cor board feet Ceet estimates estimates esti estl mates watershed and more were tabulated tabulated tabu tabu- for Cor each location Markings were left upon key trees for Cor future recordings Statistics are provided provided provi provi- ded enabling the rebuilding of oC a site in inthe inthe inthe the event markers are destroyed IN ADDITION to the ground crew two men checking the quality of oC information at the site have been acting from Crom the regional office Preparing the inventory for Cor computer analysis had six men working working work work- ing for Cor one year Now watershed problems problems lems can be diagnosed in advance of oC too much cutting This advance gives us great hope for Cor better forest management said Marvin Newell forester Ashely National Forest under whose division this project is being conducted |