Cypress™ Timber Management Software

Get quick, easy access to your timberland investment information from anywhere in the world with Cypress™. Whether you are in a hotel room at 2 a.m. preparing for an 8 a.m. meeting or skiing in the Alps, the Cypress™ system will download the forest to your laptop, providing access to up-to-date inventory, growth, timber sales and valuation data.

American Forest Management has developed Cypress™, an advanced timberland data management system, to offer management and investment information to timberland investors through secure, web-based technology.

Your timberland investment grows day and night….and with Cypress™ you will have access to your portfolio day and night as well.

Cypress™ is a forest information database that can be accessed by investors to do the following with ease:

• Simultaneously access timber inventory and spatial data
  
• Organize tools for managing silvicultural requirements
  
• Estimate current and future investment values
  
• Identify and project market trends
  
• Perform timber growth simulations and other economic analyses
  
• Simplify internal and external reporting requirements
  
• Monitor activities on individual timber tracts
  
• Update timber tract and investment information from remote locations
  
• Analyze historical timber sales with both price and volume data
  
• Generate reports to support decision making

The valuable information you need to make informed decisions, once only available through our office, is now at your fingertips day and night with Cypress™.

• Code Listing - Allow the user to access all of the codes and their definitions. For example, LB = Loblolly Pine.
   
• Stand Volume - Stand characteristics for each individual stand in the report. For example: trees per acre, basal area, volume by product.
   
• Original Growth - Displays growth from original inventory data on a single property. The stand characteristics shown are similar to those in the “Stand Volume Report.” However, since this report gives information from the original inventory data used to grow the stand, it is helpful in determining if any data needs to be corrected in order for growth corrections to be accurate as highlighted in the “Pre-Growth Errors Report.”
   
• Pre-Growth Errors - Displays errors found and their seriousness on each stand to be grown. Before a property is grown, it is checked for data errors. Growth cannot occur if any stand within the property has a serious growth error.
   
• Original and After Volume Growth - Displays volume information obtained from the last inventory performed on the user-defined property, and calculated growth information is displayed for comparison.
   
• Tract Listing - A quick and easy way of listing tracts and acreages meeting selected criteria. Includes tract’s client, fund, property, tract number, and location (state and county) and acreage information.
   
• Age Class - Summarizes stand information by one-year age class. Contains average stand characteristics such as site quality, trees per acre, basal area, as well as volume by product information.
   
• Condition Summary - Summary information for all stands in various “conditions and categories.” The current conditions which are separated in this report are: pine management capability, premerchantable acres by regeneration type and age class, and timber type. All stands are included in report.
   
• Quarterly/Periodic (Client Specific) - Displays changes between the most recent quarter and previous quarter. This report has three sections. In the merchantable timber section, timber volume by species and product are displayed for the previous quarter. It then reports changes in those values resulting from growth, inventory, timber sales, land transactions, and database adjustments. It finishes by displaying volume for the current quarter. In the premerchantable timber summary section. premerchantable acreage by the previous quarters age are displayed, then the adjustment to the acreage occurring during the time period, finishing with the resulting acreage by the current quarter. The timber type section shows acreage by timber by timber type at the time of the previous quarter, adjustments occurring during the period, and then finally the timber-type acreage at time of current quarter.
   
• Change Order Summary - Displays details of the quarterly report and identifies the changes occurring during the specified time period of the quarterly report. Provides stand details, but does not include growth changes. Growth changes are listed separately in the “Original and After Volume Growth Report.”
   
• Silvicultural - Provide the stand level history and details of silvicultural treatments which have been input into the system. This includes the treatment timing and rate information for the treatments which affect the Cypress™ growth routines.
   
• Data Download (Client Specific) - A Microsoft Excel file in which each row is a stand containing selected Cypress™ data values at a given point in time. This file can be opened directly over the web or can be saved for later viewing and use by “bolt-on” applications. A header row gives the field name for each column of data.
   
• Appraisal Status Report - Determines the current appraisal-estimated worth of selected stands. Provides timber volume by species and product class, premerchantable stand information, and acreage by timber type. Prices can be input for the timber volume, premerchantable stands and bare land values to determine the value for all of the stands included in the report. Reports can be run using varying prices and, with permission (authorization), can save the prices for future use.
   
• Appraisal Change - Displays the difference between the Appraisal Status Report most recently produced and the previous report. For instance, the change in values on the Appraisal Status Report executed on January 1 and July 1 would be shown in this report. Subtracting January 1 from July 1 will provide the values. Changes are the absolute differences in acreages, product volumes, and prices.
   
• Property Valuation - Determines current worth of selected stands. Similar to Appraisal Status Report. Contains timber volume by species and product class; premerchantable pine stand information, and acreage by timber type. Prices can be input for the timber volume and bare land values. This report differs from the Appraisal Status Report by the way prices for premerchantable stands are determined. Rather than specifying prices by premerchantable stand age; a formula is used to calculate premerchantable timberland values. The values specified by the user create the formula. Reports can be run using the various prices, and save these for future use by users with permissions (authorization).
   
• Prior Inventory - Displays most recent inventory for selected stands. Begins with summary page of the number of acres inventoried over the past 5 years by inventory category groups. It then details stands by inventory year.
   
• Upcoming Inventory Report - Displays the next time stands should be inventoried. Report begins with a summary page, displaying the number of acres to be inventoried over the next 5 years by inventory category groups. It then details by inventory year the stands that need to be inventoried.
  
  
   

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