Forestland Inventory & Valuations
Current forest inventory information is essential when
evaluating timberland acquisitions, disposal, or long-term
sustained yield management options. 
W. M. Beaty & Associates,
Inc. team
of dedicated forest inventory specialists manage all aspects of
timber inventory from design, implementation, data management,
processing and analysis, to modeling, harvest scheduling, timber
valuation, and report generation. Timber inventory products and
services may include aerial-photo interpretation, vegetation
classification, stratification, sampling design, electronic data
collection, inventory verification, growth & yield projections,
and GIS maps using GPS and an array of other map information
sources. In addition, other inventory services include both
spatial and attribute data collection for road networks,
watercourses, watercourse crossings, fires, fuelbreaks,
archaeological sites, wildlife habitats, and other natural or man-made landscape
features. The scope and scale of these services are tailored to
provide the necessary information that meets our clients
goals in a cost effective manner. Commensurate with
Forestland Management Plans, this information may be used
to
develop environmental, regulatory, monitoring, and other
management reports, plans and documents including Timber Harvesting
Plans (THPs), Nonindustrial Timber Management Plans (NTMPs),
and Sustained Yield Plans (SYPs), all prepared by WBA for our
clients.