Forestry Software

[sarooney at bizlist.com]

>Take a look at http://www.agate.net/~isd 
>for some great software for the forestry industry.
I think the vertical lines in the board background are a little dark.
It makes it hard to read quickly. 
I've been looking for a PC-based timber services program  with an
online link that updates prices and provide rough default timber
growth rates by species and growing region. Program  aids growth
projections, valuation, culling and cutting.
You are probably familiar with the stratified stat sampling approach
to forest valuation and growth projection. An experienced forester
draws a rough map of tree type areas (strata) on the property plat
(e.g. cottonwood 20%, black walnut 2.5%, loblolly 40%, slash 37.5%)
and then marks off depending on the size of the property sampling
squares or circles and then types and measures the circumference of
each tree in the sampled area. The program then values the timber
based on the map and the site samples at current prices and in x years
at current prices adjusted by +/- x%. The program also highlights
samples in a single strata selection that are inconsistent. The
program has to calculate property area by the forester's sketch of the
strata areas. That's the toughest part of the calculation. A GPSS
(global positioning satellite) tie in would help<g>, but that's not
part of it.
Anyway I know how to work search engines and have never found this 
program, but I believe it exists. Maybe Weyerhaeuser owns it and it's
not in the public domain. Do you know of it?