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- Woodland owners can use TIGER on their home computers to inventory, evaluate, and manage their timber resource.
- TIGER
is the most complete, low cost, easy to use timber inventory system available to land owners and foresters.
- TIGER
computes any combination of species, pulp wood, saw logs, and veneer---all in the same stand of timber.
- TIGER
will determine volume and dollar value of standing timber, project both into the future at five year intervals for up to twenty
years.
- TIGER allows owners to play "what if" games with simulated harvests and thinnings to determine which
best fits their needs for timber, wildlife, and scenic values.
- Use TIGER to determine your "basis" for tax
purposes.
- TIGER will enable woodland owners to maximize profits from timber harvests.
- Using
TIGER is especially valuable and easy for woodland owners participating in the Wis. Managed Forest Law.
- TIGER
will compare investment returns from woodland with other investment opportunities.
- Woodland owners may submit
TIGER inventory data to several foresters and select the one whose management ideas best suit his or her needs.
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Wisconsin TIGER was developed by
DR. Carl Mize at Iowa State University using the Lake States growth model developed by the U.S. Forest Service North Central
Experiment Station with adjustments for use in Wisconsin.
Carl Mize is a nationally respected forest biometrician.
He has 25 years experience teaching and conducting research.
Dick Hall developed the TIGER training program,
including the field instruction manual and TIGER tree scale stick. He conducts all online and field training.
Hall
is a long-time tree farmer, teacher, and outdoor writer whose column "From the Woodlot" appears in The Country Today. He spent
40 years training forestry and wildlife field technicians at Fox Valley Technical College.
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