Forest engineering & harvesting

Forest engineering & harvesting

Forest operations related to engineering and timber harvesting.

Industry: Forest products

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volume of growing stock

Forest products; Forest engineering & harvesting

Volume of sound wood in the bole of sawtimber and poletimber from a stump to a 4-inch minimum top diameter outside bark or to the point where the central stem breaks into limbs.

volume of sawtimber

Forest products; Forest engineering & harvesting

Net volume of the saw log portion of live sawtimber in board feet.

whole tree chips (WTC) fires

Forest products; Forest engineering & harvesting

Fires occurring in WTC piles, usually as a result of heating and spontaneous combustion.

spar tree

Forest products; Forest engineering & harvesting

Tree or mast on which rigging is hung for one of the many cable hauling systems.

Group of similar individuals having a number of correlated characteristics and sharing a common gene pool. The species is the basic unit of taxonomy on which the binomial system has been established. ...