Scar closure and future timber value losses from thinning damage in western Oregon

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 36-42

  Han, Han Sup ^a   Kellogg, Loren D ^b   Filip, Gregory M ^c   Brown, Terence D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OSU

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PICEA SITKAENSIS; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; THINNING DAMAGE; TIMBER; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA;

PLANTS (BOTANY); WOOD;

FORESTRY;

ABIES; CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; TSUGA; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA;

EID: 0033640572     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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