volume of timber

Although a large volume of timber is logged every year, not all National Forests are entirely forested.

In addition, the volume of timber removed in logging operations is either not recorded or is inaccurate.

The volume of timber throughput rose, whilst mineral and ore cargo shipments became ever more frequent.

The volume of timber harvested in Washington and Oregon has been slashed by more than half since the first court-ordered injunction to protect the owl was issued in 1989.

Biggest (in terms of volume of timber): A sessile oak growing in the grounds of Croft Castle, a National Trust property in Herefordshire.

"The volume of timber to be made available annually under this plan will clearly be inadequate to sustain an integrated timber industry in southeast Alaska," said Jack Phelps, the group's executive director.

To determine stumpage, any stand that will be harvested by the firm is first assessed and appraised through processes aimed at finding the volume of timber that is to be harvested.

In an effort to try to repair some of the land after more than a decade of heavy cutting, forest supervisors throughout the region have been reducing the volume of timber, going below the targets set by Congress.

By 1960, two detailed forest inventories suggested that the harvestable volume of timber was rapidly declining on Hay and Co. lands, which had been taken over in the meantime by Weldwood of Canada.

As it was state-owned, the Commission set about acquiring land as cheaply as possible and planting it with as many nasty, fast-growing trees as it could in order to achieve the volumes of timber required.

Another House bill, before the Appropriations Committee, would limit the annual volume of timber sales to 250 million board feet and reduce the Forest Service's total management for the Tongass to $41 million from $62 million, including recreation.

They note that seizures of illegally cut wood are up, that the volume of timber harvested has begun to drop sharply, and that for the first time ever, a timber merchant was recently jailed for logging on public land.

QMD can be used in timber cruises to estimate the standing volume of timber in a forest, because it has the practical advantage of being directly related to Basal area, which in turn is directly related to volume.

Since 1989, the volume of timber cut on federal lands has declined sharply, from 12 billion board feet a year to about 3 billion, in large part because of court-ordered restrictions intended to protect the Pacific Northwest habitat of the spotted owl, an endangered species.

Environmentalists oppose the Bitterroot salvage sale because it involves a large volume of timber and is seen as setting a national precedent for the proposed logging and rehabilitation of other forests burned in the 2000 fire season, when 92,000 fires blackened an estimated 7.4 million acres.

In the last decade, while the volume of timber cut in national forests fell by two-thirds, the number of recreational visitors jumped by 40 percent With hikers, hunters, bikers, campers and skiers increasingly dominating forest policy, the United States Forest Service predicts it will record one billion recreational visits a year by 2010.