Intermountain Forestry Cooperative Intermountain Forestry Cooperative Stand Attribute Builder Forest Carrying Capacity · upload-prep tool
SDImax University of Idaho College of Natural Resources

Turn your existing stand boundaries — shapefile, KMZ, or KML — into an upload-ready shapefile for the Forest Carrying Capacity tool. No adding columns or typing exact field names in GIS; everything runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded anywhere.

1Pick your model region

Which regional model are these stands in?

2Load your stand boundaries

Drop your boundary file

Drop a file here (or click to choose): a zipped shapefile (.shp + .shx + .dbf + .prj), or a .kmz / .kml (e.g. from Google Earth) — handy for a quick demo.

Nothing is uploaded anywhere — everything runs in your browser. KMZ/KML is read for its polygon boundaries; the download is always a shapefile, which is what the FCC tool accepts.

3Fill in the stand data

Your stands

10 = standard Reineke reference for cross-stand comparison. Leave at 10 unless you know otherwise.
Lots of stands? Download a spreadsheet with one row per stand, fill species in Excel, then upload it back — values are matched to stands by Stand ID.
4Download

Ready-to-upload shapefile

This writes the correct columns and values into a copy of your shapefile (your geometry and coordinate system are kept exactly). Stand IDs are auto-cleaned (no characters that break the upload), MODEL is set for you, and proportions are saved as 0–1.

Tip: after downloading, upload it to the FCC tool once to confirm — then reuse the same steps for every stand file. Questions or a column you don't see? Send it back and we'll adjust.