For example mead maintain large woodland holdings which provide the trees that are the raw material for many of the company’s products management needs reliable and accurate information about the timberland and forests in order to evaluate the company’s ability to provide its future-raw material needs what is the present volume in the forest? What is the projected future growth of the forests? All of these are important questions that must be answered with answers to these questions mead’s management can develop plans for the future including long-term planting and harvesting schedules for the trees