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[Common Forest Inventory (ccsa)]
 
Table Name Field Name Begin Column Definition Valid Values Description
ccsa1rg3.pat

ccsaco = county

ccsafs = forest service

ccsast = state dnr

 ARC/INFO Polygon Attribute Table
area 1 8,18,F Area in meters squared.
perimeter 9 8,18,F Perimeter in meters. 
cover# 17 4,5,B ARC/INFO internal number.
cover-id 21 4,5,B ARC/INFO unique polygon id number
cover_type 25 3,3,I Major forest type in the stand based on basal area or

some derivative of basal area (i.e. volume).
1 ash, willow, or lowland hardwood
2 balm-of-Gilead (balsam polar hybrid)
3 aspen, bigtooth, cottonwood, offsite aspen, or 

aspen-spruce-fir
4 hybrid
5 birch
6 northern hardwood, mixed hardwood, sugar maple-basswood,

or sugar maple
7 central hardwoods
8 oak, bur oak, or northen red oak
9 walnut
10 white pine
11 Norway pine
12 jack pine
13 scotch pine
14 ponderosa pine
15 white spruce
16 balsam fir
17 lowland black spruce
18 upland black spruce
19 tamarack
20 cedar
21 red cedar
22 mixed swamp conifers
23 cut over
24 upland grass
25 lowland grass
26 marsh
27 bog-muskeg
28 upland brush
29 lowland brush
30 water
31 gravel pit
32 agriculture
33 industrial
34 recreation
35 transportation
36 other
cover_size 28 2,2,I Average size in diameter of breast height (d.b.h.) of 

the cover type.
1 0-4.9" d.b.h.
2 5-8.9" d.b.h.
3 9"+ d.b.h.
stocking 30 2,2,I An indication of growing-space occupancy relative 

to a standard usually based on basal area or stand 

density(stems/acre).
1 poor
2 medium
3 well
age 32 3,3,I 0-999 Age of the stand at the time of measurement.
measure_yr 35 4,4,I The year the stand level data was collected.
site_index 39 3,3,I A measure of actual or potential forest productivity, 

expressed in terms of the average height of trees included

in a specific stand component (site index species).
site_spp 42 3,3,I Tree species that site index was measured on.
1 black ash
2 green ash
3 white ash
4 elm
5 silver maple
6 red maple
7 sugar maple
8 willow
9 trembling aspen
10 bigtooth aspen
11 paper birch
12 yellow birch
13 balm-of-Gilead (balsam poplar hybrid)
14 cottonwood
15 hybrid poplar
16 basswood
17 walnut
18 butternut
19 cherry
20 buckeye
21 northern red oak
22 black oak
23 northern pin oak
24 white oak
25 bur oak
26 scarlet oak
27 bitternut hickory
28 shagbark hickory
29 pignut hickory
30 hackberry
31 box elder
32 iron wood
33 river birch
34 blue beech
35 locust
36 white pine
37 Norway pine
38 jack pine
39 Scotch pine
40 ponderosa pine
41 Austrian pine
42 balsam fir
43 white spruce
44 Colorado blue spruce
45 Norway spruce
46 black hills spruce
47 black spruce
48 tamarack
49 white cedar
50 red cedar
51 hemlock
52 douglas fir
53 European larch
54 Japanese larch
55 Siberian larch
admin 45 2,2,I Manager of the stand.
1 State
2 County
3 United States Forest Service
4 Bureau of Indian Affairs
5 Private
6 Private Industrial
7 National Park Service
8 Municipal
9 United States Fish and Wildlife Service
recon 47 2,2,I The method used to inventory the stand.
0 Unknown
1 Visited on the ground.
2 Air photo interpreted (AI) or other sources. 
stand-id 49 30,30,C Each agencies unique stand-id.
State owner # section # type # township # range # direction #
USFS district # compartment # stand # 
County township # range # polygon id
main_spp 79 3,3,I The major tree species on the stand (based on volume

or trees per acre).
- same codes as site_spp
main_siz 82 2,2,I Average size in d.b.h. of the main_spp type.
- same codes as cover_size
main_vol 84 3,3,I Volume
-
spp_2 87 3,3,I The second major tree species on the stand (based on 

volume or trees per acre).
- same codes as site_spp
siz_2 90 2,2,I Average size in d.b.h. of the spp_2 type.
- same codes as cover_size
vol_2 92 3,3,I Volume
-
spp_3 95 3,3,I The third major tree species on the stand (based on 

volume or trees per acre).
- same codes as site_spp
siz_3 98 2,2,I Average size in d.b.h. of the spp_3 type.
- same codes as cover_size
vol_3 100 3,3,I Volume
-
under_type 103 3,3,I Major understory forest type in the stand based on

basal area or some derivative of basal area (i.e. volume

or stems per acre).
- same codes as cover_type
under_size 105 2,2,I Average size in d.b.h. of the under_type.
- same codes as cover_size
under_dens 108 2,2,I An indication of growing-space occupancy relative to a standard usually based on basal area or stand density (stems/acre).
- same codes as stocking
shrubs 110 2,2,I Shrubs
0 Unknown, below snow 
1 No shrub present
2 Predominantly (most common) Labrador Tea, Leatherleaf 
3 Predominantly lowland Alder 
4 Predominantly lowland Willow 
5 Predominantly Prickly Ash 
6 Predominantly Raspberry or other Rubus 
7 Alder/Willow with fair amount of Red Osier 
8 Combination of upland Blueberry and other low shrubs 
9 Predominantly Sumac 
10 Predominantly Hazel 
11 Hazel combined with (one or more) Honeysuckle, 

Mt. Maple, Dogwood, Juneberry, 
ground_cov 112 2,2,I Ground cover
0 Unknown, covered with snow or water 
1 Predominantly bare ground or rock or dead litter 
2 Grasses and/or sedges with few or no forbs. 
3 Predominantly smartweed, fireweed, jewelweed, nettle, or combination. 
4 Predominantly sphagnum mosses and/or lichens 
5 Predominantly feather mosses and/or ground pine 

and/or lichens. 
6 Predominantly ferns and grasses. 
7 Predominantly blueberry, sweetfern, wintergreen, 

bearberry, and grasses or combination.
8 Predominantly large leaf aster, wild sarsparilla, 

Clinton's lily or combination and grasses.
9 Predominantly goldenrod, aster, clovers, lupine, 

weeds, or combination and grasses. 
stand_orig 114 2,2,I Stand origin
1 natural regeneration
2 artificial regeneration