. Elements of forestry. Forests and forestry. CHAPTER VIII. FOREST MENSURATION. General. — Forest mensuration may be defined as the meas- urement of logs, trees and standing timber and the determina- tion of growth and yields. It is not concerned with the measurement of any form of Fig. 28. — Mensuration Crew at Work in Southern Yellow Pine Forest, Texas. All of the trees are measured on strips of a given width and per cent, and these results are taken as an average of the whole forest. Under the present economic conditions the measurement of the forest crop is of increasing importanc
. Elements of forestry. Forests and forestry. CHAPTER VIII. FOREST MENSURATION. General. — Forest mensuration may be defined as the meas- urement of logs, trees and standing timber and the determina- tion of growth and yields. It is not concerned with the measurement of any form of Fig. 28. — Mensuration Crew at Work in Southern Yellow Pine Forest, Texas. All of the trees are measured on strips of a given width and per cent, and these results are taken as an average of the whole forest. Under the present economic conditions the measurement of the forest crop is of increasing importance, since with the rise of stumpage values, accurate estimates of the contents of timber tracts are necessary. In addition many of our pro- 148. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Moon, Frederick Franklin, 1880-1929; Brown, Nelson Courtlandt, 1885-. New York J. Wiley
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