Late Stage Detection is Expensive
Regeneration problems compound when they go undetected.
A manageable treatment area in Year 2 turns into major remediation by Year 5. By the time ground crews identify the problem through traditional sampling, you're facing significantly higher treatment costs, additional thinning work, and extended timelines to reach establishment.
Late-stage detection creates undesirable forest conditions that affect your yield curves and volume tables for the next rotation. By the time problems surface, management decisions are constrained by what the site has already become, and that is what limits your AAC.
The industry has accepted this pattern because sampling methodology has limits. You can't intervene early if you can't see problems early. And you can't see problems early when you're only looking at a fraction of your block and a fraction of its components.
That's why Flash Forest launched Forestry Intelligence Service

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