State-of-the-art methodology of forest inventory: a symposium proceedings.

Platonic verses are writings that tend toward purely spiritual or ideal situations such as those found in the Bible and other sacred writings or in some of our natural resource management laws and national direction. Inventory objectives are summary statements of the desired end results of surveys of goods and materials in stock. The process of converting information requests to inventory objectives is discussed and personal thoughts on additional inventory objectives, use of existing information, subjective sampling, moving plot locations, and use of allowable sampling errors are given.