Forest Measurements by T. Eugene Avery 1967

Description: Thank you for looking at our listing. A purchase supports Friends of Spanish Peaks Library District! These books are donated from different sources. This book is in acceptable condition, few pages have little writing, bl inside cover appears a liquid stain, damage of pages is minimal, book is solid otherwise, see photos for details. I will combine shipping for each additional item purchased. Please do not pay for books until you are done bidding/shopping, and I will create a new Invoice with the reduced shipping charges. Please, I cannot issue refunds due to penalties that EBay assesses. Feel free to submit any questions you have. Thanks! As envisioned by many, the subject of forest mensuration encompasses timber inventories, game censuses, public opinion surveys, bio-metrics, computer programming, and operations analysis. If this be the case, it is equally true that most universities offer separate courses in these fields and that no single textbook can be expected to suffice for all. This particular volume is devoted to applied forest measurement techniques. An attempt has been made to present subject matter in a simple and concise fashion that is easily grasped by the neophyte forester. If this has been accomplished, there will be little to inhibit the eloquent instructor who wishes to add his own favorite embellishments. This is a book for undergraduate courses in forest inventory. It is presumed that the reader will have previously studied college algebra, trigonometry, and plane surveying. A prior knowledge of basic statistics and sampling methods will be helpful, although the more elementary concepts are briefed here. Material covered in Chap. 2 on forest surveying has been included for persons with an inadequate background of this subject. At the instructor's discretion, it may be omitted without loss of continuity. Certain subjects traditionally discussed in mensuration textbooks have been purposely left out of this treatise. Among these are alignment charts and their application in constructing standard volume tables. Today standard volume tables are usually derived by multiple regression techniques, and it is felt that this subject is adequately covered by authoritative statistical references. Furthermore, few foresters have occasion to construct such tables during their entire careers. On the other hand, this volume includes several techniques not generally covered in previous mensuration textbooks. Among these are weight sealing of pulpwood and sawlogs, applications of point-sample timber cruising, use of aerial photographs in forest inventory and mapping, and adaptation of machine-sort cards for attaining greater efficiency in field tallies and data compilation. The investigator interested in greater subject matter detail should find special assistance in the references that follow each chapter. These have been carefully chosen from recent publications to provide up-to-date coverage of new forest inventory developments. It is virtually impossible to acknowledge all persons who have contributed to the compilation of this volume. Many reviewers, for ex-ample, remain anonymous to the author; still, their indispensable assistance is gratefully recognized. Known reviewers who read various portions of the manuscript are Mr. Frank Freese, U.S. Forest Products Laboratory; Prof. Albert C. Worrell, Yale University; Prof. Kenneth D. Ware, lowa State University; Prof. James P. Barrett, University of New Hampshire; and Prof. Jerome L. Clutter, University of Georgia. Many of the line drawings were prepared by Prof. Dennis M. Richter, Wisconsin State University at Whitewater. Special information on continuous forest inventory was supplied by Mr. Wendell C. Snowden, Iowa State University; Mr. Harold J. Belcher, Rayonier Incorporated; and Mr. J. C. Mottayaw, Container Corporation of America. Appreciation is also expressed to Messrs. H. J. Hovind and C. E. Rieck of the Wisconsin Conservation Department for permission to reproduce several tables and illustrations on point-sample timber cruising. Certain tables in the Appendix also warrant special acknowledge-ments. The table of square root conversions appears by courtesy of SCM Corporation, New York, and the table of random numbers is reproduced by permission from "Statistical Methods" by George W. Snedecor, 5th ed., c. 1956 by The Iowa State University Press. I am indebted to the literary executor of the late Sir Ronald A. Fisher, F.R.S., Cambridge, to Dr. Frank Yates, F.R.S., Rothamsted, and to Messrs. Oliver & Boyd Ltd., Edinburgh, for permission to reprint Appendix Table 6 (The Distribution of t) from their book, "Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Research." To successfully complete a task of this nature, an author must have time, encouragement, and a pleasant working environment. For providing all these necessities, I owe special thanks to a friend and former coleague, Dean Allyn M. Herrick of the School of Forestry, University T. Eugene Avery

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