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A comparative economic analysis between log scaling practices

Creator:

Lewis, Charles Stewart

Abstract:

Many centers of population in the Pacific Northwest are dependent upon employment in the forest based industries. Mary of these timber dependent communities look to the public forests for their raw wood requirements. In some localities the installed capacity has outstripped the local wood supply. This necessitates reaching into other...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
A comparative study of three log rules commonly used in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A.

Creator:

Paixao, Julio De Castro

Abstract:

A comparative study was done on data collected by Weyerhaeuser Company on l,6144 second-growth Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii, trees. The variable used in the study was the percent difference, positive or negative, between the volumes given by each of three different log rules and the standard tree volumes determined by Weyerhaeuser...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Growth and yield of unmanaged stands of quaking aspen on the upper Navajo River in the Rocky Mountains of southwest Colorado

Creator:

Clendenen, Gary Wayne

Abstract:

An average stand diameter yield table and a diameter growth per decade table are presented for unmanaged stands of quaking aspen in southwest Colorado. The yield table presents yields per tree for the following utilization standards: 1. total cubic-foot volume minus the stump, 2. cubic-foot volume to a 4-inch top,...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
An evaluation of the use of tarif tables in second growth Douglas-fir

Creator:

Marshall, David D.

Abstract:

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources' Comprehensive Tree-Volume Tarif Tables are a set of preconstructed local volume tables. This can increase "on plot" efficiency since only diameters are necessary to obtain volumes after the proper table for the given diameter/height relationship is accessed. The tables are accessed and indexed...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis