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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry231917amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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TIMBER CRUISING IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BY HERMAN II. CHAPMAN THE enormous size and great value of individual trees in the coast forests of Washington and Oregon have led to the adoption of careful, detailed methods of timber cruising. The old-time cruiser, who produced his results by methods as mysterious as those of the professor of legerdemain, is giving place to the man who has a definite system and does not care who knows it. Timber cruising does not differ from other kinds of inventories or stock taking, except that it is immensely more difficult to obtain accurate and consistent results except at considerable cost. The fundamental requirement in large and valuable timber is a coimt which will show the exact number of trees of each species on a "forty." Cruisers who attempt to estimate timber of this character by any shorter method cannot hope to attain even reasonable accuracy. An example of modem methods is a report sent to the writer by the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, prepared by their tim- ber inspector, Charles A. Billings, of 01\Tnpia, Washington, covering a section or square mile of heavy timber near Everett, Washing- ton. The method employed by
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