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• Forest inventory — is the systematic collection of data and forest information for assessment or analysis. It is also commonly known as timber cruising. It is important for owners to cruise the timber to get an estimate of the value and possible uses of the timber …   Wikipedia

• Measurement of biodiversity — Main article: Biodiversity Polar bears on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean, near the north pole. A variety of objective measures have been created in order to empirically measure biodiversity. Each measure of biodiversity relates to a particular… …   Wikipedia

• Rendlesham Forest incident — The Rendlesham Forest Incident is the name given to a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of an extraterrestrial spacecraft in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England in late December 1980. It is perhaps the… …   Wikipedia

• List of unusual units of measurement — For units of measure primarily used in countries where English is not the main language, see the article specific to that country, a list of which can be found in the systems of measurement article. An unusual unit of measurement is a unit of… …   Wikipedia

• Cloud forest — Tree ferns in cloud forest on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo A cloud forest, also called a fog forest, is a generally tropical or subtropical evergreen montane moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low level cloud cover,… …   Wikipedia

• Howland Forest — The Howland Research Forest is a 555 acre (2.2 km²) tract of mature evergreen forest in central Maine, west of the town of Howland. The Howland study site is located in a boreal transitional forest. This forest is dominated by mixed spruce,… …   Wikipedia

• Belidor, Bernard Forest de — born 1698, Catalonia, Spain died Sept. 8, 1761, Paris, France French military and civil engineer. After serving in the French army, he worked on measuring an arc of the Earth. As professor of artillery at a French military school, he wrote… …   Universalium

• bone-dry unit — (bdu)    a unit used in the forest products industry to measure bulk products such as wood chips. One bone dry unit is a volume of wood chips (or whatever) that would weigh 2400 pounds (1.0886 metric ton) if all the moisture content were removed …   Dictionary of units of measurement

• green ton —    , green tonne (GT)    terms used in the forest products industry for a U.S. ton or metric ton (tonne) of freshly cut timber, bark mulch, etc. Once the material has dried, it will of course weigh less …   Dictionary of units of measurement

• volumetric unit — (vu)    a unit of volume equal to 200 cubic feet (5.663 cubic meters), used in the U.S. forest products industry for wood chips and other by products of lumber production …   Dictionary of units of measurement

• Diameter at breast height — Diameter at breast height, or DBH, is a standard method of expressing the diameter of the trunk or bole of a standing tree. DBH is one of the most common dendrometric measurements. Tree trunks are measured at the height of an adult s breast,… …   Wikipedia