MAI and Associates...

Question 1

What does it mean when PAI is greater than MAI

Answer 1

Stand is still growing at acceptable rate and has not yet reached culmination

Question 2

What are the two most important factors in MAI?

Answer 2

Species and site index

Question 3

How is volume increased in normal forests?

Answer 3

Scheduled thinnings eliminate intraspecific competition by targeting intermediate and suppressed trees to recover potential mortality.

Question 4

What is yield ?

Answer 4

Revenue from an investment

Question 5

What are surveys designed to do?

Answer 5

Assess net yield

Question 6

What is out AAC based on in bc?

Answer 6

Volume based ( based on annual yield )
Important because it tells us how much we can harvest

Question 7

Why does the AAC calculation utilize an artificial rotation age?

Answer 7

Allows foresters to gradually harvest forests in order to harvest in perpetuity.

Question 8

How would you calculated AAC

Answer 8

Volume of mature timber / rotation age + MAI

Question 9

How would you calculate MAI?

Answer 9

Volume at rotation / age at rotation

Question 10

What is PAI?

Answer 10

Annual increment within a set time period.