Forest Mensuration (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Schenck, Carl Alwin

9781451001198: Forest Mensuration (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10 : 1451001193 ISBN 13 : 9781451001198

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Master the numbers behind the forest: learn how volume, age, and growth are measured and valued. This practical guide introduces the core ideas of forest mensuration, showing how foresters estimate tree and stand volume, determine age, and assess increment and stumpage value. It presents the basic methods used in field work, from counting and measuring to applying standard tables and formulas.

The book explains the shapes and formulas behind tree volume, including cylinders, paraboloids, cones, and Neill’s paraboloid, and it connects these ideas to real measurements in the woods. It also outlines different approaches to volume estimation, both with and without cutting sample trees, and it describes how different methods are chosen based on accuracy, cost, and purpose. You’ll find clear guidance on selecting plots, collecting data, and using yield or volume tables to project forest value.

What you’ll experience
- A practical overview of how volume, age, and increment are determined in standing trees and forests
- Step‑by‑step descriptions of field methods, instruments, and calculation approaches
- comparisons of well-known formulas and tables used by foresters around the world
- guidance on planning valuation surveys, sample plots, and tree analysis

Ideal for students, professionals, and anyone involved in forest management or timber valuation, this edition helps readers understand the methods behind forest measurements and their use in economics and planning.

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur

DEAR READUS;
In the following pages an attempt is made to treat "Forest Mensuration"
from a scientific-mathematical standpoint as well as irorn
the view point of practical application.
Naturally, pamphlets of as restricted a character as this treatise on
forest mensuration address themselves to a very restricted circle of
readers; and the expense of printing is never covered by the returns from
sales.
Thus it becomes necessary, in ortler to reduce the expense of publication,
to omit all, or practically all, lengthy explanation of a mathematical
nature which the teacher at a forest school can easily supply
in the COUrse of his lectures.
The present Biltmore pamphlet on Forest Mensuration is intended,
above all, to assist the students enlisted at the Biltmore School. 1 t contains
the teacher's dictation which the students, in former years, were
compelled to take down in long or shorthand, to the annoyance of both
teacher and students.
It cannot be expected that a pres

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