There are no stands in our data that were harvested since the last year of DNR OI data collection.
Private industrial inventories contain stand type only and no tree data.
Therefore we measured stand BA (10 BAF prism) and mean stand
DBH (diameter tape) on private industrial and non-industrial
forest land in the vicinity of our deer density estimates (see below
for description of the area measured).
Stand characteristics data were linked in a GIS (ESRI, 2006) with stand boundary maps for MDNR and industrial private lands .
Stand boundaries for private non-industrial land were digitized using aerial photography with field notes.