- 行业: Forest products; Government
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Extent to which the ground around a tree is broken by ridges, gullies or swells, rock outcrops, and sharp slope changes.
Industry:Forest products
Weight of a vehicle under specific conditions, transmitted to the ground and computed for the per-unit area of contact between ground and wheels or track shoes.
Industry:Forest products
Pulling logs parallel to the ground without using an arch or fairlead to raise the forward end.
Industry:Forest products
Cable yarding method in which the main line lead block is hung on a stump. The logs are not lifted from the ground.
Industry:Forest products
Felling method used to orient the butts of small- diameter, tree-length timber in one direction for skidding.
Industry:Forest products
Live trees of any size except rough and rotten trees. See timber volume, volume of growing stock.
Industry:Forest products
Increase in diameter, basal area, height, and volume of individual trees or stands during a given period of time. Also known as increment.
Industry:Forest products
Removal of stumps from the ground by any of several methods or combination of methods.
Industry:Forest products
The rate attached to the use of capital that guides a firm in its choice of investments. In general, investments that promise a rate of return less than the guiding rate are rejected after due allowance for things such as risk.
Industry:Forest products
