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The Trevey is a system created to produce an integrated set of reports that can be useful to owners and managers of natural resource areas, especially wildlands. 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 system can be put. The results have been called hypertext and hypermedia, fancy words for your 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, government data, experience of consultants, and complex ecological and environmental models. It is also based on your objectives. Its recommendations change as your land and resources change (for example, due to purchases or sales, fire, storms, harvests, and cultivation). The whole natural system, "all outdoors" is the topic addressed within the system. It is an elusive quest, never quite achieved. Even your objectives may change over the years and another analysis may be made. Minimum, unbiased, cost-effective inputs are one mark of The Trevey reports. Special economies are achieved from centralized data bases and detailed field observations recorded within field computers. There is balance in the system since an effort has been made to achieve relatively equal precision in all computations through the system. Only reasonable levels of confidence may be maintained in an environment of dynamic economics and transitions in plant and animal communities, policy, and personnel. After natural catastrophes, data must be collected and the analyses made again.
The Trevey typically contains diagnoses and prescriptions. Diagnoses are land use intelligence for the decisions about tactics and strategies for the present as well as for the future. The content of the pages are very area-specific and related to your stated objectives. They are not cast into an indefinite or average environment for unknown use as are many government publications. The diagnoses are analyses and descriptions and they are the rationale for the prescriptions.
The Trevey, besides providing prescriptions, can be used to assist in advertising and marketing, to educate staff, and to assist in land valuations. You will see many recommendations for novel uses of the land and for joining in alternative financial opportunities.
The staff hopes that you will ask for other information or ask us to clarify any part of the material here. We continue to try to improve the presentations and a glossary is available. Land use systems are often so very complex that we cannot believe (or understand) the solution provided by the computers. The solution has been selected, literally, from among millions of alternatives. We shall be glad to assist you and explain the results and help you put into practice the recommendations. The staff thanks you for being involved in the analysis, for actively improving the land and water resources of the region. All of Virginia and the nation benefits when land and resources are managed well, profitably, sensitively, for the longrun. We look forward to continued productive, profitable, and exciting work together.
Just as follow-ups to prescriptions and conversations are important with 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.