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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Timber’s Term of the Week: Biltmore Stick
Biltmore Stick n A ruler that is held at prescribed distances from the body. The stick’s four faces are scribed with lines and numbers. These lines and numbers are used to estimate tree diameter and tree height, and ultimately tree … Continue reading
Posted in Forestry
Tagged Biltmore Stick, how to measure a tree, mensuration, Merritt hypsometer, Tree measurement
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Timber’s Term of the Week: Bucking
Bucking V The process of cutting a felled tree into logs. A bucker measures the downed tree while limbing and then cuts the tree into logs for transport. He will try to maximize the log’s net volume since, as a … Continue reading
Posted in Forestry
Tagged Forestry, forestry slang, logger lingo, logging lingo, Timber's Term of the Week
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Draft #2-Timberati on the Graveyard Shift
Lee Lofland over at the Graveyard Shift has asked if I’d like to do a guest column. Lee’s a retired detective who’s “solved cases in areas including narcotics, homicide, rape, murder-for-hire, robbery, and ritualistic and occult crimes. He worked as … Continue reading
Posted in Forestry, Life in California, Writing
Tagged environment, Forest Practice Enforcement, Forestry, Lake County, Life as I find it, Life in California, logger lingo, Writing
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Wildfires and CO2
I have read a number of articles, blog posts, op-eds, etc., declaring that timber harvesting is not the answer to the problem–timber harvesting is the problem. Well the old axiom about a picture holds, a picture is worth a thousand … Continue reading
Posted in Forestry, Sustainability
Tagged anthropogenic global warming, California, Climate Change, Deforestation, environment, zero-cut
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Timber’s Term of the Week: Forest
Forest noun Definition: Land spanning more than 0.5 hectares (just over an acre – ed.) with trees higher than 5 meters (just over 16 feet – ed.) and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to … Continue reading
Posted in Forestry, Sustainability
Tagged definition, Deforestation, environment, forest, Forestry, land use, Sustainability, Timber's Term of the Week
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