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...
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...
As part of the effort to evaluate TRIM (Timber Resource Inventory
Model) for the next RPA National Assessment, a study was conducted
using natural pine stands in North Carolina. TRIM has been used for
regional timber supply studies in both the Pacific Northwest and the
South (Southern Timber Supply Study)....
This experiment was designed to investigate the use of volume
estimations from aerial photography and probability proportional to
size (PPS) sample selection in the development of a practical sampling
design for timber volume estimation on small land areas of
Pacific Northwest Douglas -fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii, Franco).
The major problem of...
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...
Disaggregative and individual-tree/distance-independent modeling methods are
compared and contrasted. Differences between the two are related to differences in functional
and apparent resolution and may be illustrated using aggregation theory. When considering
models of different levels of resolution describing a given phenomenon, invariance with respect
to the aggregation implied (symmetry) may...