West Virginia logger characteristics

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 19-24

  Milauskas, Steven J ^a   Wang, Jingxin ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOGGING BUSINESS; WEEKLY PRODUCTION; WEST VIRGINIA;

EDUCATION; HARVESTING; SURVEYS;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

EDUCATION; LOGGING; SURVEYS;

EID: 30344434694     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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