Abstract
SUNY ESF has five properties located within New York State that make up its 25,000 acres of forestland. Four of these properties are located within the Adirondack Park and one is located 30 minutes south of ESF’s Syracuse campus.
Each of the properties has its own set of continuous forest inventory (CFI) procedures that were developed by Bruce Breitmeyer, Adirondack Forest Property Manager, and Mike Gooden, Adirondack Forest Technician. Each property is inventoried every 10 years, weather and personnel depending.
The preliminary layout of the CFI plot system was done using a forest stand map of Dubuar Forest. In the office, approximately 72 potential plot locations were selected to sample across the entire property and be evenly distributed between hardwood and softwood forest types. Exact plot locations were referenced to the north-south/east-west grid system already surveyed on the property. In the 1996 measurement, 6 new plots were added. As of 2016, there are a total of 79 plots.