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Log Scaling and Timber Cruising
Guide for students, cruises, and scalers. Contains concise information about Variable Plot and 3P Cruising and a method for combining these surveys, regeneration surveys, taper equations, V-Bar measurements, and $-Bar assessment. The book deals primarily with western timber, but is used throughout the United States and Canada.
Forestry Field Reference Book
Handy guide for students and practicing foresters who work with field measurements. Although primarily focused on timber, the book serves for typical engineering of forest road layout with an added section on curve layout formulas and tables. It also includes safety notes and rigging layouts. This book pulls together the most commonly used tables.
Surveying For Forestry And The Natural Resources
Designed for a first course in Forestry, Forest Engineering, or Natural Resources that involves field surveying and measurements. In addition, the book functions as a field reference for practicing foresters, engineers, and other natural resources professionals who are not practicing land surveyors but who use surveying as a part of their job requirements.
Manual Of Oregon Trees And Shrubs
The standard for universities teaching about Pacific Northwest forests and also great for natural resource specialists in the field. Although the book highlights Oregon, it includes trees and shrubs ranging from Alaska to northern California and from the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountains. It also includes a number of prominent rangeland species.
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