- Industry: Forest products; Government
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Loading method that uses two lengths of rope suspended from the end of the loading line and terminating in the end hooks.
Industry:Forest products
1. All trees in a stand whose tops or crowns occupy a similar position in the canopy or crown cover. 2. Class into which the trees forming the crop or stand may be divided on the basis of both their crown development and crown position relative to the crowns of adjacent trees and the general canopy. Also the trees falling into such a class.
Industry:Forest products
Ground area covered by a crown, as delimited by the vertical projection of its outermost perimeter.
Industry:Forest products
Vertical distance of a standing tree from ground level to the base of the crown, measured to the lowest live branch whorl or to the lowest live branch.
Industry:Forest products
Vertical distance of a standing tree from the tip of the leader to the base of the crown, measured to the lowest live branch whorl or to the lowest live branch.
Industry:Forest products
Of a standing tree, the ratio of crown length to tree height.
Industry:Forest products
Removing superfluous live growth in a tree crown to admit light, reduce weight, and lessen wind resistance.
Industry:Forest products
1. Survey of forest land that includes the location, volume, species, size, and quality of timber stands. 2. Estimate obtained in such a survey.
Industry:Forest products
