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Juvenile Wood in Forest Trees
Zobel, Bruce; Sprague, Jerry R.
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Description for Juvenile Wood in Forest Trees
Paperback. Series: Springer Series in Wood Science. Num Pages: 304 pages, 51 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PST; TGXW; TVB; TVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 486.
The trend in forestry is toward shorter rotations and more complete utiliza tion of trees. The reasons are: (1) financial pressures to obtain rapid returns on the forestry investment made possible by an earlier harvest; (2) enforced harvest of young plantations to maintain a continuing supply of cellulose for mills where wood shortages are experienced; (3) thinning young plantations, both because they were planted too densely initially and because thinning is done where long rotation quality trees are the forestry goal; (4) more intensive utilization is being done using tops and small diameter trees; and (5) there is interest in ... Read more
The trend in forestry is toward shorter rotations and more complete utiliza tion of trees. The reasons are: (1) financial pressures to obtain rapid returns on the forestry investment made possible by an earlier harvest; (2) enforced harvest of young plantations to maintain a continuing supply of cellulose for mills where wood shortages are experienced; (3) thinning young plantations, both because they were planted too densely initially and because thinning is done where long rotation quality trees are the forestry goal; (4) more intensive utilization is being done using tops and small diameter trees; and (5) there is interest in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Springer Series in Wood Science
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642721281
SKU
V9783642721281
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Ref
99-15
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