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Estimating merchantable volume and stem residue in four timber species: ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, western larch, Douglas-fir
This report presents tables and equations for estimating total cubic volumes of wood, wood residue, and bark for ponderosa pine, western larch, and Douglas fir. The equations and tables provide a means for estimating wood and bark residue volumes…
Author(s): James L. Faurot
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Handbook for predicting slash weight of western conifers
As an aid to managing fuel and wood debris, procedures are provided for predicting weights of slash using tables of either slash weight per tree by d.b.h., or slash weight including crowns (live and dead foliage and branchwood) and unmerchantable…
Author(s): James K. Brown, J. A. Kendall Snell, David L. Bunnell
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A method for determining fire history in coniferous forests in the Mountain West
An improved version is presented of a method previously used [see FA 40, 169]. Instructions are given for: laying out transects; gathering stand data, including documenting fire-scarred trees; sampling fire-scarred trees; laboratory analysis of tree…
Author(s): Stephen F. Arno, Kathy M. Sneck
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Preliminary guidelines for prescribed burning under standing timber in western larch/Douglas-fir forests
Guidelines are offered for safe, effective fire treatments in western larch/Douglas-fir forests. Describes procedures for estimating and limiting the scorching of tree crows. Provides a method for predicting percentage of the forest floor that will…
Author(s): Rodney A. Norum
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