In this regard, Foresters underestimate the influence they can have on their organization, and the importance of decisions and due diligence. Since students have some idea of what their annual salary will be, I like to relate their decisions to the financial implications. The marginal costs of going from the best alternative to the next best starts to get cloudy very fast if all you have is your intuition. The constrained model often suffers substantially when compared to the unconstrained model, but when optimized, can make intuition look pretty bad. There are serious tradeoffs.
Every student has different acreages, ages, site indices, and stocking.
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