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A Total Forest Management Plan
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Introduction to The Trevey Documents for the **Owner Forests, Lands, and Resources.
A system has been created that produces an integrated set of documents or reports that can be useful to owners and managers of natural resource areas. The system is now on the internet and words fail to express the prose, illustrations, multi-media, and back-and-forth uses to which parts or all of the Trevey system can be put. The results have been called hypertext and hypermedia, fancy words for the ability to jump around within the materials developed for you within The Trevey system. The system is changing in concept, equations, text, format, and graphics and other media. It is a general system designed to serve many clients, giving them the best information and advice available for their specific objectives for their specific lands and resources.
Prescriptions are the bases for decisions. Prescriptions can be taken, followed, or not. They are formal, serious advice. In the case of the Trevey, they are based on vast literature research, experience of consultatnt, and complex models. The whole natural system, "all outdoors" is the topic addressed within the system. It is an elusive quest, never quite achieved. Minimum, unbiased cost-effective inputs are one mark of the Trevey reports. Report reliance is placed on both centralized data bases andd detailed field observations recorded within field computers. Another characteristic is balance, that is an effort is made to achieve relatively equal precision in all computations through the system. Another dimension is one of reasonable levels of confidence in a dynamic environment of economics, trasnsition in plant and anaimal communities, policy, personnel changes, and natural catastrophe.
The Trevey typically contains diagnoses and prescriptions. Diagnoses are land use intelligence for the decisions about tactics and strategies for the present. The content of the pages are area-specific and related to objectives. Yhey are not cast into an indefinite environment for unknown use as are many government publications. The diagnoses are analyses and descriptions and the rationale for the prescriptions.
Just as follow-ups to prescxriptions are made by the good physician, so too should comments, observations, and advice be made about this report to Dr. Bob Giles (Lasting Forests, 504 Rose Avenue, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060).
The entire system is changing; your constructive comments can influence its future improvements for the good of natural resources around the world.
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Last revision January 17, 2000.