For foresters managing woodland over decades. Know if each stand is hitting its target structure — and produce the owner, grant and audit reports without the desk-work.
Every stand's real structure against its target, tracked over the years. Not before-and-after — on-target or off.
Dictate inventory in the field. Watch stand tables, the reverse-J and the reports build themselves.
The five-year review, FSC / UKWAS evidence and grant records — generated from your live data on demand.
Bring your own data however you keep it. The value isn't the calculation — it's the plan, the rules and the monitoring, joined over time.
Bring your own data, however you keep it — inventory spreadsheets, plot points, boundaries, geotagged photos. It learns your format and keeps it.
Choose the target structure your way — the reverse-J (BDq), or your own school's method. The tool speaks more than one CCF tradition.
Re-measure each cycle. Watch the distribution, the increment and the Gini move toward target — before and after every intervention.
The owner report, the five-year review and the certification evidence fall out — one click.
Your woods, mapped and navigable. Plots, sample points, stands and boundaries are held spatially — so you move through a wood across space and time: pick a compartment, scrub the years, and watch its structure change.
Continuous cover isn't a single method. ForesterHQ is built around the target your school works to — so it fits how you manage, not one imported formula. More traditions arrive as we grow.
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CCF interventions are subtle — a few trees here, a favoured stem there. The structure either side of a thinning shows exactly what changed, with your photos and drone imagery attached.
Clearfell software assumes one age, one species, one felling date. Continuous cover breaks every one of those — on purpose. That's not a gap we fill better; it's a paradigm their data model can't hold.
All of it from the tree list you already keep. Calculation, never simulation.
Annual basal-area increment across inventories — Biolley's control method, made live. Sustainable cut ≈ increment.
Gini of diameters, Shannon, quadratic mean diameter — a structural-diversity trend, tracked toward target.
Volume by tariff, then standing carbon via biomass factors — feeding your Woodland Carbon Code records.
Height-to-diameter ratios flagged where a stand looks windthrow-prone. Flagged — the call stays yours.
Stocking of young trees against adequacy thresholds — answering the question the small-class gap only hints at.
One dashboard across all your clients' stands — which are on track, which need attention, which are drifting.
The complete list we're weighing — most of it from the tree list you already keep. A working checklist, not a finished product: tell us which of these earns its place in your day.
Current diameter distribution against the BDq target curve — the headline.
"1 tree in X" removal quota per broad size band. Quota only — you mark the trees.
Stems, basal area and volume per hectare by species and diameter class.
Size inequality (Gini), Shannon species diversity, quadratic mean diameter — a structural-diversity trend toward target.
Mingling, dominance, differentiation, uniform angle — needs stem-mapped tree positions.
Annual basal-area increment across inventories — the control method live. Sustainable cut ≈ increment.
Fit a local curve from sampled heights to estimate the rest — feeds volume.
Compare crown thinning vs low thinning vs no-thin — projected yield with a confidence band, from your measured growth. Conditional, never a forecast.
"At your measured rate you reach target ~2034" — a ruler, not a crystal ball.
Standing volume from DBH and sample heights — unlocks value and carbon.
Standing carbon via biomass factors — with uncertainty shown, feeding Woodland Carbon Code records.
Value by assortment (sawlog / bar / chip) from volume and prices.
Discounted cash flow of named strategies — thin-marginal vs heavy vs extend rotation.
Height:diameter ratios flagged where a stand looks windthrow-prone. Flagged — the call stays yours.
Young-tree density against adequacy thresholds — is recruitment coming through?
Standing and lying deadwood volume by decay class — biodiversity and carbon.
Match species to site from climate, soil and exposure (Ecological Site Classification).
Distribution, basal area removed and fixed-point or drone imagery either side of each thinning.
Every survey, intervention and geotagged photo on one stand timeline over decades.
Every client's stand at a glance — on track, needs attention, drifting.
Owner report, five-year review, FSC / UKWAS evidence, grant & licence pack.
You know your woods better than any tool ever will. This just takes the repetitive assembly off your desk — pulling the inventory, the plan, the objective and the evidence into one place, so the documents build themselves.
It hands back the inventory → analysis → plan → evidence → report desk-time. It doesn't negotiate your timber sale, schedule your contractors, or chase the Forest Service for you. It gives back the reconstruction — the part that multiplies across every client you manage.
The tool sets the quota. You mark the trees.