The dataset is the smallest managed unit internally of Forest Service forests. A sub compartment is an area of land that has similar land use, species, habitat composition, age, thinning and harvesting operations and needs to be managed as a single unit. Each sub-compartment has a range of attributes in relation to land use and if forested, tree species composition and management. Boundaries change due to harvesting operations, resurveying and updates and improved accuracy of the LPS vector basemaping and orthophotography it is overlaid on. Sub-compartments are grouped together to a larger management unit of compartment based on physical features and similar composition.
Attribute Fields:
FOREST_NO – forest reference number
FORESTNAME – name of the forest
BLOCKNO – block identifier
SC_NO – sub-compartment identifier
FSGISCODE – unique reference code for the block
GISAREA –area in hectares
PLUO – land use objective
PLUC – land use category of components
PYEAR – year component planted
COMP_NO – compartment number
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