an approach to forest management based on a series of intensive complete or sample inventories of the growing stock to maintain a close check on the progression of size-class distributions (and therefore increments) resulting from silvicultural treatments —note a control method employs small, permanent, systematically located sample plots —synonym continuous forest inventory (CFI), Méthode du Contrôle, examination method, check method, check system, periodic (forest) inventory, recurrent (forest) inventory —see dynamic samplingThis definition last updated 10/25/2008