- 行业: Forest products; Government
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One who joins two pieces of cable together by intertwining the wire strands.
Industry:Forest products
Tool with a narrow-shaped, curved blade used in removing bark by hand. Also called a barking iron.
Industry:Forest products
Road that supports a low level of traffic, such as a level that would serve one or two settings. Little or no engineering design work is needed to build it.
Industry:Forest products
1. Mobile machine for unloading and stacking or decking logs using the forklift principle and curved top clamps. 2. A heavy-lift machine similar to a front-end loader, with forks and clamps capable of handling and loading logs.
Industry:Forest products
1. In silviculture and management, a tree community that possesses sufficient uniformity in composition, constitution, age, spatial arrangement, or condition to be distinguishable from adjacent communities. This tree community forms a silvicultural or management entity; for example, a subcompartment. Both natural and artificial crops are included, and there is no connotation of a particular age. 2. In mensuration, the amount of timber and/or fuelwood standing on an area, generally expressed as volume per unit area; for example, board feet per acre or cubic meters per hectare. 3. In the United States, growth of trees on a minimum of 1 acre of forest land that is at least 16. 7 percent stocked by forest trees of any size.
Industry:Forest products
General health of a stand of trees reflected by its development relative to the site potential. A good stand condition refers to a fully stocked stand that is producing fiber at a high rate based on specific site conditions such as moisture, soil quality, and other biological variables.
Industry:Forest products
1. Number of merchantable trees per acre. 2. Quantitative measure of tree stocking frequently expressed in terms of number of trees, basal area, or volume per unit area.
Industry:Forest products
