Inventories

Since our inception, Bennett & Peters has specialized in detailed, custom-designed timber inventories of forestland from the smallest parcel to one of the largest single purchases of timberland in the United States, the nearly 1.8 million acre Dierks forest in Arkansas and Oklahoma purchased by Weyerhaeuser Corporation in 1969.

We have the ability to put together a large crew of highly trained foresters to conduct inventories of any size. Most of these foresters have been doing inventory work for over 20 years.

Computerization has long been an important part of our timber inventories. Bennett & Peters was one of the first consulting firms in the nation to use computers to process forest inventory data. The use of computers has not only reduced the time and cost of inventories; but, more importantly, electronic data processing has allowed us to give clients more and better information.

Over the years we have refined our management inventories to give the landowner and forest manager better information with which to manage forestlands. Today, our inventories include not only the traditional tables of numbers of trees and merchantable volumes by species and diameter class; but they also include land classifications by site, method of regeneration, age, stocking class, type and level of hardwood competition, as well as data on site index and growth.

In addition to supplying inventory summaries by ownership and management unit, our custom-programmed inventory system automatically outputs all pertinent data by individual forest "stands", creating a management database which can be accessed by our forest management planning model and updated annually. This stand level database can be easily searched and summarized by any criteria of the stand.