Study Design - proposal approved and financed by the USDA written in 1997 which describes the original study design
planned at Hope (please save this file to disk, and then open in WordPerfect). All field work implementing the study, subsequent maintenance, and annual inventories were done by the Hope Station personnel under the field manager Robert Colvin.

Subsequent financing - is provided by the study accepted in 2000 by the Arkansas Forest Resources Center.