John Bell & Associates

John Bell & Associates
Inventory & Cruising Newsletter

John F. Bell Ph.D & Associates,
541-758-4939
johnbell@proaxis.com

Walter Bitterlich passes at age 99

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Items of Interest:

The PNW Research Station has made many of its research publications available online. Check this link for the full list:
PNW Research Publications.
USFS article on increment bores on the web: Increment Cores: How to collect, handle, and use them. (pdf).

Past Features & Information	What's New (11/16/2008 )
The Statistics for Practical People Series (Published April 1988 - October 1989)	Isn’t the number of trees quite variable with VP sampling? (03/30/2008)
Our 3P Sampling Collection	GPS Performance Under-the-Forest Canopy (Due to the size of this article, it is a PDF file) (03/30/2008)
Is It True That... Our series addressing myths and other folklore about forest sampling.	The SE% is not small enough. Now What? (07/02/2007)
It's the People... Series	How Many Edge Trees Do You Have? (02/10/2007)
	Field Test of the Area-free Cruise Method (09/30/2006)
Browse Our Newsletter Index	An Electronic Version of the Relascope? (08/26/2006)
DOWNLOAD a Microsoft Word version of the Newsletter Index.	Guest Editorial: Production in Forest Inventory – What is it? (07/04/2006)
Downloads: Star-Bar Spreadsheet Fixed Plot Tree Count vs Measurement Plot calculator Relascope BAF Calculator (error found, new version available shortly) Packages Example Spreadsheet Stand table Example Spreadsheet treeBAR Spreadsheet	Is there any advantage to using lines of plots (rather than a grid)? (03/25/2006)
	A Great Practical Edge-effect Solution for Typical Cruising Situations (12/23/2005)
	If You Don’t Like Measuring Borderline Trees, What Can You Do? (11/12/2005)
	What exactly IS "bias" anyway? (08/19/2005)