Abstract:BACKGROUND The North Central Research Station' s Forest Inventory and Analysis (NCFIA) program began fieldwork for the fifth forest inventory of Illinois in 2001, in partnership with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. This inventory initiates a new annual inventory system in the State. Onefifth of the field plots in Illinois are measured each year under this system. As a result, the current inventory of the State' s forest resources will not be fully implemented until 2005. However, because each yea… Show more
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