Value recovery with harvesters in southeastern U.S. pine stands

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 80-84

  Conradie, Ian P ^a   Greene, W Dale ^a   Murphy, Glen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PULP LOGS; SAWLOGS; VALUE RECOVERY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPTIMIZATION; PULP; SOFTWOODS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

HARVESTING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMS; FIBER RECOVERING; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING; OPTIMIZATION; PINUS; PROFITABILITY; PULPS; VALUE ADDED;

MILETINAE;

EID: 11844267278     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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