Foresters and landowners faced with making complex management decisions have new technologies available to them that can help inform and communicate. Two examples are tree growth models and forest visualization models, many of which can be downloaded for free. However, assembling data for input, learning the required commands, and understanding the outputs of these programs can pose challenges. The Landscape Management System (LMS) was developed by the University of Washington in part to make some of the publicly available forestry software easier to use and more accessible to a wider audience. The LMS Inventory Wizard was created to make it easier for LMS users to acquire, prepare, and import forest inventory data.

The LMS program and the Inventory Wizard are availabe for free download from: http://lms.cfr.washington.edu/download/

Current LMS users can download a stand-alone version of the Inventory Wizard from: http://lms.cfr.washington.edu/lmsinvwizard.html

Publisher: WSU Extension Publications
Published: December 2004.   Revised: March 2006.   8 pages.