Comparative economic analysis of two management options for loblolly pine timber plantations

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 29-33

  Biblis, Evangelos J ^a,b   Carino, Honorio ^a,b   Teeter, Larry ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOREST PRODUCTS SOCIETY   (United States)

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