Book excerpt: Excerpt from Archeology and National Forest Land Management Planning Sampling. Conducting a complete archeological survey of a land parcel embracing hundreds of thousands of acres is an awesome task. Sometime in the next 10-20 years we may see such a feat accomplished but in the meantime it will be necessary to sample land planning units. Despite the clear demonstration of the need for sampling (binford 1975, Judge 1975, Smith 1977) as a vital part of archeological methods some archeologists (jelks 1975) remain unconvinced. Such archeologists will effectively remove themselves from consideration for land management studies since the purpose, from the point of view of the land manager, is to have data which will allow good prediction of archeological variables on those units of land not surveyed. My best guess data is simply not appropriate when probabilistic data can be collected. Sampling, therefore, will have to be stochastically rigorous rather than grab (smith, Defining the target population to be sampled will seldom be a problem since target population will be some unit of space and the spacial boundaries will be administratively set. Sample design will probably undergo little innovation as the mechanics of multi-stage sampling for large land parcels have been essentially worked out by Smith (1977) although not yet fully field tested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.