Latest Edition of an Important Forestry Book From McGraw-Hill

Forest Measurements

Fifth Edition, 2002, ISBN 0-07-366176-7

Thomas Eugene Avery

and

Harold E. Burkhart

The fifth edition of this popular forestry textbook retains all of the principal topics included in the fourth edition while adding new material on electronic data recorders, electronic distance measurement, global positioning systems (GPS), and geographic information systems (GIS). New tree measurement topics include direct measurement of tree heights with extendable poles and measurement of tree crowns. Material from the previous edition, including references cited at the end of each chapter, has been updated. Answers to selected problems have been added to enable students to readily evaluate their comprehension of the material. In addition, a web page is available to supplement, extend and enhance information in the textbook.

1. Introduction

2. Statistical Methods

3. Sampling Designs

4. Land Measurements

5. Cubic Volume, Cord measure, and Weight Scaling

6. Log Rules, Scaling Practices, and Specialty Wood Products

7. Measuring Standing Trees

8. Volumes and Weights of Standing Trees

9. Forest Inventory

10. Inventories with Sample Strips or Plots

11. Inventories with Point Samples

12. Inventories with 3P Sampling

13. Using Aerial Photographs

14. Geographic Information Systems

15. Site, Stocking, and Stand Density

16. Tree-Growth and Stand-Table Projection

17. Growth and Yield Models

18. Assessing Rangeland, Wildlife, Water, and Recreational Resources