"Charting the Future of Resource Management Information Services."
Since 1989, Alpine Land Information Services has provided forest planning and information management services to the forest Industry. We provide comprehensive "large-landscape" forest management plans for some of the largest industrial landowners in California. It is Alpine's belief that in order to create an effective forest management plan, all constraints relating to the management of timber and other resources must be accounted for. This requires a commitment to a consistent and detailed accounting of resource information including stand inventory, threatened resources, cultural concerns and visual considerations. The Sustainability of all forest resources and profitability need not be in conflict. The important decisions that will lead landowners to a successful future are made every day in our clients' forests. Our job is to help them make these decisions by bringing to bare state-of-the-art information management tools along with a cost effective field data collection. Our style of detailed, comprehensive long-term forest planning makes the difference. We have played this role on over 1 million acres of California Industrial Timberlands. We have shown that it is possible to program activities in a detailed fashion over large landscapes. The benefits that accrue to this unique style of forest planning are endless. Yet, of all the benefits that flow from this strategy, none is more important than risk avoidance; to protect and make forest investments more profitable and enduring; with returns on forest investment more predictable than ever imagined.
Alpine is far from a traditional "consulting company". Owner Rande P. McCabe has worked to support the timber industry for over 30 years. He began his career as a timber faller and pursued it for 15 years. He saw first hand what can occur when forest plans are poorly conceived, or worse yet, non-existent. McCabe went back to the University of Washington in 1986 and finished his forest management degree with an emphasis on computer applications. He was surprised upon leaving the University to find the timber industry, as well as the United States Forest Service, floundering in a sea of regulatory obligations. In 1989 McCabe, along with a programmer and a sense of purpose, began Alpine. Reflecting upon that time he says, "I really thought I could help".
McCabe has grown Alpine into a major player in the California forest management scene. They bring a determined innovative and resourceful spirit to the forest management arena. Alpine's services are employed by the largest timber owners in California. Our resource applications and processes have developed into a new standard in forest planning.
Praise for Alpine Land Information Services Inc.
"Sierra Pacific Industries Forestry Division is
responsible for the on going management decisions and protection of forest
resources on almost 1.2 million acres of our California forest land base.
We contracted with Alpine Land Information Services to assist us in the
development of an Option A - Timber Harvest Plan.
Through this process we have become familiar with and purchased Alpine's
Graphical Planning Interface (GPI©). Alpine,
under new contract, is currently using GPI© to produce two additional
demonstration long-term plans in support of SPI's Multi-Species Habitat
Conservation Plan, to be submitted shortly to the US Fish and Wildlife Service,
National Marine Fisheries Service, and the Environmental Protection
Agency."
Ed Murphy, Inventory Systems Analyst
Sierra Pacific Industries
"Long-term forest management planning is one of the
cornerstones of California's new Forest Practice Rules.
Rande McCabe and his colleagues at Alpine Land Information Services has
pioneered an innovative approach to timber harvest scheduling that takes maximum
advantage of forester's knowledge of on the ground conditions, as well as state
of the art simulation techniques."
Helge Eng
California Department of Forestry
"I recently used Alpine's services for determining long-term sustained yield for a Non-Industrial Timber Management Plan.
The GPI© program enabled me to link inventory plots and growth over time
to specific points on the property. This
software far surpassed any other analytical modeling tools available to the
consulting forester."
Nicholas Kent,
Consulting Forester
Alpine Land Information Services Inc.
3058 Crossroads Drive
Redding, CA 96003
(530) 222-8100
Fax: (530) 222-8108