Timber Cruise Field Audit

Acknowledgements These standards are the result of the vision and dedicated labors of a team of professional foresters and fee appraisers working in Florida. Inspired by a timber appraisal workshop sponsored by the Division of Forestry at Tall Timbers Research Station in November 2003, this group of individuals met and corresponded over several months to identify and write the essential elements of these guidelines. It is hoped that this document will provide a more structured and consistent framework in which timber cruise and timber appraisals will be carried out, prepared and reported. This will in turn, provide fee appraisers with a more market-based and better-supported timber valuation- in short- a better product with greater utility to the fee appraiser. This is no small matter given the considerable land acquisition program here in Florida – the largest, public conservation lands acquisition program in the country. It’s significant also to note that these standards represent the first such effort of its kind known in this country…that is…an effort to codify a set of professional standards and guidelines for foresters and fee appraisers for the completion of timber appraisals. The leadership and work of the following sponsoring organizations recognized. Mike Long Eva Armstrong Director Director David Core, Certified Forester E. Chilton Hines, MAI Chief, Bureau of Forest Management Chief, Bureau of Appraisal Division ...