Ireland's National Forest Inventory 2017: Results

The 2006 National Forest Inventory (NFI) was the first statistical and multi-resource inventory carried out on the national forest estate. In order to assess changes in the forest estate over time repeated assessments are required. The second NFI was completed in 2012 and the third in 2017. On all occasions multi-resource information was recorded including information on forest area and species composition, growing stock volume (m3), biodiversity, health, and carbon content; for the entire national forest estate. The repeated NFI cycles have provided results on aspects such as forest area change, volume increment and latest felling volume estimates. This facilitates the assessment of changes in the state of Ireland’s forests over time.