Wel, Mike and Kirk, after 4 days of indense workshop presentations with a very diverse group of folks, I am about ready to agree with the both of you. This is only the first of several that will be taking place and there is much fall out to deal with in the whole process. We dis learn how to determin the volume of tonage per per a specific plot and all, both old growth Douglas Fir/ Hemlock stand and a 40 year old plantation site. In both sites we learned to include the large and fallen materials all the way to the duff, being measured for carbon deteriation. Some of the logs I measured in one old growth plot measured well of 4' in diameter and very, very l o n g.
The way the measureing works is that any fallen of standing dead material is counted against the standing live masterial.